I was really hungry yesterday. I was craving anything with protein in it, so I decided to eat grilled meat at the party last night and only had a very small piece of the cookie-cake they had.

UFC was pretty cool. It was way more interesting than boxing, and it seemed safer, oddly enough. Everyone was sooo rowdy, and yelling, and jumping up and down...it was a great time. Some of the guys thought that Tito would kill Forrest so they placed a bet on their guy. Looks to me (and everyone else there) that Forrest should have won, so they decided that the money should go to those who wagered on Forrest, but those guys refused to take the money because Tito actually won, so that started a shouting match all by itself. When we left, all the money was still on the table becaue each side refused to take it. LOL. Boys.

Okay, so I am going to try for my ultra-workout today. I'm feeling better than I was yesterday, and confident that I can do it. So here's the goals:

25 Min. Stationary Bike (Avg. HR=113)
65 Min. Treadmill 3.3 MPH (Avg HR=134)
25 Min. Stairmaster Level 2 (Avg. HR=151)

Update: My knees weren't up for the 25 minutes on the stairmaster so I stopped at 10. Have the "easter feast" raw goods prepared and just need to cook now. I was down another 1/4 lb today. So, using my last 9 weeks as the benchmark, I should see a pretty big drop this week. It looks like my body likes to give me little losses for about 10 days then give me a big loss, then repeat that cycle. We'll see.

Okay, so I can't help it. I am an accountant and love to calculate stuff. I am going to break my weight loss into 6 13-week periods. Losing the 2 lbs per week, that will be 156 lbs lost at the end of those 6 periods. Just a little bit under what I need to lose, but close enough for today. Today I am starting week 10 in period 1. 13 weeks seems to go by pretty fast these days, so I will set my goals below.

Period 1 Ending Weight: 310 Target Date: 05/13/06 Achieved Date: 03/30/06
Period 2 Ending Weight: 284 Target Date: 08/12/06 Achieved Date:
Period 3 Ending Weight: 258 Target Date: 11/11/06 Achieved Date:
Period 4 Ending Weight: 232 Target Date: 02/10/07 Achieved Date:
Period 5 Ending Weight: 206 Target Date: 05/12/07 Achieved Date:
Period 6 Ending Weight: 180 Target Date: 08/11/07 Achieved Date:

More: Was this perhaps the first holiday eating event that I have not over-eaten for? I piled my plate up with the goods, as I really didn't eat lunch, and thought I was fairly hungry. Guess what? Most of it went right back into the serving apparati from whence it came. Didn't want it. Didn't need it. I quit eating when I was not hungry. Most of it didn't taste that good to me either, truth be told. The family loved it, so it must have tasted the same to them. Ham-yuck. WAY too salty. I am sooooo thirsty now.

Whole, fresh foods taste so much better to me now than all that crap I used to stuff myself with. I think I am going to try to find a way to slowly transition our holiday fare to healthy, whole foods. I can feel the sodium bloat already!

I am way under net calories for today and a little over on the food calories. Thanks to the raspberry cream cheese shake! Yum!

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Sorry friends. I have to officially join the WTF club. We are all in the positions we are in because we thought to ourselves "oh, it's only one meal/day/weekend/week/month" MY A$$! No sympathy from me. I'm not going to pick y'all up off the floor tomorrow, dust y'all off, pat you on your fat a$$, and tell you it's okay. And that you can re-focus this week. F!@k that. It's not "okay." You made the decision that your health was less important than that meal/day/weekend/week/month. Deal with that before you come looking for support. Oy vay.

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