BRIENMALONE's CalorieKing Blog
So good.
Friday, March 21st 2008
It is amazing how good a whole food meal makes you feel inside. I just polished off some of my "famous" homemade soup.Brien's Soup (high carb/low fat version)
10oz baked potato + skin
4 oz of cooked chicken breast
1 cup of Imagine organic soup (tomato basil)
2 servings of broccoli and cauliflower.
(550 calories)
It's a huge meal - I eat it from a 1 liter container (4.7 cups) and it is almost full. Brien's Soup is a bit bland to eat without salt, but eat it ...
Rowing on an Empty Stomach
Wednesday, March 19th 2008
I finally... FINALLY got back to the gym. WOOT! At 6:30am, I parked myself on a rowing machine for about half an hour listening to the Body Sculpting Bible.Concept2 vs Waterrower
I LOVE rowing... especially on those air-resistance Concept2 rowing machines. This was the type of rowing machine I used in college. When I first decided to get back into shape, I bought this beautiful wooden water rower a few years ago. It looked and sounded fantastic, but the narrow grip caused me to bend m...
Lá Fhéile Phádraig
Monday, March 17th 2008
And a happy Lá Fhéile Phádraig to all (That's St. Patrick's Day in Gaelic)Saturday we headed downtown for a little Irish festival put on by the House of Ireland. They served Irish Stew, soda crackers, bangers (mild sausage) and rolls.
They had a dance troupe of little girls with their hair done up in tight springy curls doing sean-nós (traditional Irish dance) - bouncing like pogo sticks with their legs twisting in the air in geometric, if unnatural-looking ways. Live local musici...
What to do...
Sunday, March 16th 2008
Wow. I ate way... too much... today. Urf. Another day in a long line...I'm a little torn about what direction to take my blog. Do I talk about what has been happening since I stopped tracking my foods? Do I go with a pep talk? ...or do I just make a plan and start working it?
As I have been completely derailed for the past two or three weeks (and have undoubtedly gained weight), talking about what has been going on will either sound like excuses, or it will reinforce my derailment (or...
Ding! Birfdeh!
Thursday, March 13th 2008
So, I'm 36 today.
Is it weird to LIKE getting older? I've wanted to be "grown up" since I was 6... Why? because you can go anywhere you want to go, and you can buy whatever you want to buy. Well... at least that's what 6 year old Brien thought. I like 36 because I have a handle on how the world works and where I fit. I've achieved a level of professional success... I'm comfortable in my own skin. I'm happily married. I know what I want out of life and I know how to get it. At 2...