It’s almost over! My marathon training plan is coming to an end and I will get a chance to test my endurance abilities. For the past 17+ weeks I have been following Hal Higdon’s Advanced Marathon training plan and in 4 days I’ll be running the inaugural Tyler Rose Marathon in Tyler, Texas on 10/10/10. [...]
This week I’m flying solo. I have been tracking my calories for over 230 days. I wrote down every single food item I have consumed and every single calorie that made it into my mouth. This is a very tedious process and aggravates the hell out of my wife when I get up from the [...]
Today was the last day of my son’s soccer camp and for the past four days I’ve been eating lunch with him at various places. Monday we went to McDonald’s, a place where he’s only been about 3 times in his entire life. Tuesday I took him to my favorite lunch spot, a Thai restaurant [...]
If I were an alcoholic I’d tell you I had been sober for 194 days and you’d pat me on the back. Since I’m not an alcoholic, I don’t even like alcohol, I won’t say that. But since I had been a food addict and a terrible eater I can tell you that I had [...]
It’s no secret that I have been tracking my calories since day one of my transformation very diligently and based on the results I’d say with great accuracy and success. When I started I was going to do a simple diet that was going to contain the same food every day. This would have meant [...]
I don’t have a specific topic in mind for today’s post so I thought I’d just write down a bunch of the tings that have been happening and I feel might be relevant. Yesterday was a long run day for me and I ran 8.1 miles (13 km) in an hour and 9 minutes. This [...]
As you could see on my last weekly update my weekend calories were much higher than the weekday calories. On Sunday I have reached an all time high of 2,233 calories, a number I have not seen since November 11th, 2009. In November it was Olive Garden, an Italian restaurant, for dinner and leftover from [...]
Ever since I have embarked on my lifestyle change I have been facing challenges at every step of the way. Elliptical machine breaking down, injury that would hinder my running, weights getting harder and harder to lift instead of easier, but the biggest challenge still has to do with food. A proper diet is the [...]
I have written yesterday about my great disappointment in Razzoo’s food choices and lack of nutritional information. I have also mentioned that I wrote them an e-mail letting them know about my great disappointment about their nutritional values or lack thereof. Actually their food seems to be loaded with nutrition it’s just not the right [...]
I haven’t been eating out much lately and I definitely seek healthier choices when I do decide to eat out. Tuesday night me and my wife decided to celebrate the fact that we became US Citizens by going out for dinner. We have been eating at the two safe places I like, barbecue and the [...]