BRIENMALONE's CalorieKing Blog
New Toy - MedGem
Thursday, April 10th 2008
I finally bought a MedGem! When I was working with Rebecca (trainer) at Bally's, every month or so, she would hook me up to this gadget called a BodyGem. It was a little plastic device about the size of a juice-box with a plug and a disposable mouthpiece. You breathe through it for about 10-15 minutes and it tells you your Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) to a high degree of accuracy. (It calculates RMR based on oxygen consumption.)The MedGem is a step up from the BodyGem -- the only real diff...
Cycles...
Thursday, April 3rd 2008
Well - here comes the true test. When my wife and I met, I was 180 lbs.By the time we were married, I was 190. After a year of living together, I was 195ish... which was still fine. But when I had a bunch of life events hit me all at once. 2004/2005 came like this: wife pregnant, bought townhouse, son born, started school. I was so overwhelmed and had so little time that I threw diet and exercise out the window.
Well, guess what? I'm about to do it all over again. The whole thing.
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Changes
Monday, March 31st 2008
I really underguessed on my calories today.Spinach and Strawberries
My wife made more smoothie than she could eat. I dumped some protein powder in and half a banana and polished off the whipped 24oz cup of fruit. There was a lot of air in the mix apparently because the ingredients only totaled about 300 or so.
My wife bought this huge container of strawberries -- probably 6 quarts in size. I packed two small containers for my snacks today which weighed in at about 100g each. I t...
Statistic Part II
Thursday, March 27th 2008
I'd like to hear your thoughts on this...Tools for Saying on Track
In my last blog, I talked about the parts of my regimen that slipped on day 79, but didn't get around to discussing why some things stuck while others didn't. I'm going to ramble on for a bit to try and get at some of the underlying reasons behind my actions... If I'm lucky, I'll have some raw material that I can refine into a set of tools for rescuing failed convictions.
Motivation 1: The Only Option is the "...
Crap! I'm A Statistic!
Monday, March 24th 2008
Otter posted this great article in her blog about the day when most new year's resolution diets fail. For some reason, people who start a new routine on January 1 seem to stop on or around March 18. There is something about the 78th day of a diet that causes people to give up.I didn't start my 'diet' on new year's as part of any resolution... I started December 9, 2007. Want to hear something funny? Looking back over my charts, my resolve and focus died abruptly starting 2/26/08.
Feb...