Weight Check: Unknown
Current eating habits: 2 pcs. Chicken, mshd ptes, popcorn chk, 1 cookie, 2 oz. chips
Date Started: 07/09/02
Exercise: None
Mistakes: See Current eating habits

This is just a place holder so I can remember what I ate. As you can see, I chose the low road. according to Nutritional info, I've eaten 1700 calories so far. Not a good start. I can tell you one thing, After eating power bars and fruit this whole week, KFC chicken makes you feel like shit. This is a feeling I'm going to try and remember, because it is not a good feeling. oog. I'll add a full "real" entry tomorrow, or late tonight.

[another edit] It's about 4:15 am. spent the night playing games. very tired, but didn't eat anything new, nor was I hungry. Hopefully I'll make it to my scale and whatnot tomorrow so I can do a full update, and see how today's events have affected my diet... ~N

[Full Post] Ok, it's actually 1:00am Monday. I was supposed to post this morning, but was not at my house so I didn't get a chance to get to my scale or make my entry. Basically, Saturday I didn't go for a walk, and I fuckered up my diet. I didn't do as horribly as I could have, and I made up for it (kind of) today. I'll post my info for today when I get up tomorrow.

As for the Diet itself, I have two more days of being on the 1000-calorie-a-day portion of the diet, which usually lasts for about a week. however I've had no trouble maintaining this diet (aside from, ahem, saturday), so I think I will maintain this version of the diet for as long as I lose weight. It would be nice to keep dropping weight as quickly as I have been so far, but I know it it unhealthy, and will probably slow down whether I want it to or not. I can't wait to get on the scale tomorrow morning and see if I've lost anymore weight.

~N

Weight Check: 260
Current eating habits: 2 Power Bars, 2 fruits, 1 cup noodles
Date Started: 07/09/02
Exercise: Walking 1 mile
Mistakes: Drank 5 beers last night

Haha if anybody other than me is reading this, you probably think I'm a lush. It figures that as soon as I start a diet, I suddenly become social again. Well whatever, beer doesn't count, or at least it doesn't appear to considering I lost 3 pounds yesterday. I'm trying not to get too excited about that fact, because the last time I was on this diet my weight would fluctuate by as much as 4 pounds from one day to the next. It is a nice morale boost, however, and I'm glad for that. Yesterday I was very hungry and came close to eating something a couple times. It might be that the beer weakened my resolve, or maybe it bolstered it, I can never tell hehe.

Anyways, I walked faster than usual yesterday because I was in a hurry. For the first half I went my usual pace, then picked it up on the way back. It normally takes me a half hour to walk the trail, but I did it in 25 minutes yesterday. It's not a big difference, but a victory is a victory, and I need all the victories I can get (I'll tell you why in a sec). I'm really glad that it's summer. I often wonder how well I'd do with the whole walking thing if it was raining every day. Prolly nowhere near as well, so I think I'll take the nice weather as a good omen (too bad it's cloudy as all hell and looks like rain right now). The extra 5 minutes I shaved off my time actually took a bit of effort, as the walk back is uphill. I will try to walk every day, however today I work early (10:30) and since I got in at 3:00 this morning, I woke up just a few minutes ago, so I only have time to type this up and brush my teeth before I have to go. No shower for Nate :( And with the big LAN party coming up tonight, I'll just DIE! Ok, probably not, but it does seem to turn out this way an awful lot. At least I didn't exercise (A dubious honor at best, but like I said, any victory is a victory I'll take).

The big test comes today at work. The company picnic is today, and Nintendo is buying food for all the people working today. And they usually buy either Pizza or KFC, or some combination of the two. You see my dilemma. The whole freaking call center smells oh so tasty pretty much all day. I still don't know what I'm going to do, if I should suck it up and stick to my Power Bar meals, or if I should try and only eat as much food as 1000 calories will allow. My first thought is, If I only get what 1000 calories would allow and eat it, then I'd wind up only getting like a wing and 1 slice of pizza and a soda, and that would be it. But then again, if I go with the power bar, I don't get anything. But if I eat the food, then I won't be full because all my calories will be gone, and I'll get hungry tonight at the LAN party. But it's free food, and it's tasty, my stomach will fucking eat itself if I don't eat some food. Help! I think the only thing I can do is pack my regular meals with me, and keep thinking about the 10 pounds I've lost so far (It is not just water! Shut up!) and hope that stubbornness and shallow ego get me through it all. What Would Richard Simmons Do?

~N

Ed's Note- I'm working on a way for you, the reader, to leave comments. I have no idea how many people are reading this, but I figured a word of encouragement or insult now and then will be interesting. ~N

Weight Check: 263
Current eating habits: 1 power bar, 2 fruits, 1 cup noodles, 1 potato
Date started: 07/09/02
Exercise: Walking 1 mile
Mistakes: drank 4 beers last night / ate right before sleeping

Yesterday was pretty good. I went out with Matt, and had about 4 beers. Silly me I ordered Hefeweizen, which has like 500 calories per beer. Oh well, I never felt like calories from drinks really counted anyways (I know that's hypocritcal, but what are you gonna do about it punk?). The real mistake came when we went to Minnies afterwards, where I ordered a side of cooked potatoes. I don't think this is really all that big a deal, but I could have done without. besides those freaking power bars are like 250 calories on their own. I'd be amazed if the potatoes I ate were more than that. The only real problem (there's two, but I'll get to the second one in a sec) is that I ate them right before I went to bed, which is bad. Oh well, according to the scale, I still lost a pound, so I guess it didn't fuck shit up too much. And I'm still hungry so it's not like I didn't suffer, which is the point of dieting right? Losing weight is just a side effect of all the suffering hehe.

I mentioned my diet last night, and Matt told me that scott is taking some caffiene pills or something (probably a metabolife knockoff) and is about 3 weeks through a 6 week program. He said that scott hadn't lost a pound, yet was still confident in the pills. What scott doesn't realize (or maybe he does, but doesn't care) is that pills aren't going to cut it by themselves. At this point Matt went off on me about exercise and proper eating habits etc. etc. which I already have gone over in my head. I agreed, and we moved on in the conversation. What bugs me is that we talked about the whole diet and exercise thing for about 20 minutes, which is quite awhile in conversation time. Perhaps I won't mention my diet to anyone else, lest I become "That guy." After all, that's what this log is for, to bore myself, not everyone else.

After I wrote yesteray's entry, I wound up going for a walk. It's getting late, but I think I'll be doing that again today. I didn't get home until 2:30 last night, and because I'm not eating, I got pretty drunk off of 4 (or was it 5) beers. When I woke up this morning (at 8:30) I was still drunk, grr. So I slept in for another hour and a half to kind of help things smooth over. Then I got up, and started typing. Now, I've got to rush if I'm going to walk and shower and make it to work on time, but I think I'll be ok. Yesterday's walk felt good (it was beautiful out), and Matt is right, after all. You need to exercise as much as you watch what you eat, if you want to have a healthy body. So walking is a good start. Soon it will be jogging, then it will be racquetball. You gotta start somewhere, right?

~N

Weight Check: 265
Current eating habits: 2 power bars, 2 fruits, 1 cup o noodles
Date started: 07/09/02
Exercise: No (not yet)
Mistakes: ate 1 brownie last night

So it's been two days since I started my Diet. This is the second time I've been on this diet, the first was at the beginning of this year. I lost 35 pounds (295 down to 260) and stopped the diet when I moved from Gig Harbor to Seattle. Since the move I have been beseiged by several major events, including weddings, special occasions, and the death of my mother. I moved to seattle in (I think) Late Martch-Early April, and so have been off my diet for over 3 months now. Bad me. Anyways, since I've been off, I gained back 10 lbs, so when I started this diet I was at 270. In the two days that I've been back on I've lost 5 lbs (6 actually, but I don't want to get my hopes up hehe). So far I haven't been very hungry either, which is nice. But some of these power bars are godawful. I've resigned to eating the ones I know are nasty first (chocolate) so I can eat the tasty ones (peanut butter) later this week, when my resolve may be weakening.

I'm also not sure how often I'll be updating this log, But if the updates are anything like this entry, it might be every day, or every other day. We'll see how that goes as well. It probably depends on how well I stick to my diet, as I have a tendency to try and put mistakes in the past (which means not logging them for everyone to see). But even if I make mistakes, hopefully I'll have the balls to put them up here. That's right I said balls. This diary is for me, not jenny fucking craig. fuck shit ass pussy.

I'm also hoping to get into a jogging/walking routine soon, but I have to get my schedule in order before that can happen. lately I've been going to bed at 3:30 and getting up at 11:00, so I never get anything done. This morning, however, I got up at 8:30 without even trying, so I think I'm going to go for a walk right after this. (It helps that I went to sleep at like 1:00). This could be a sign of better things to come.

~N

This is the first entry, the "test" entry, if you will. The purpose of this blog is to keep a diary of my activities while on my diet for motivational purposes, and to help keep me on track. after this test post, I will create a "format" that tracks my statistics, and post my thoughts. The diet has already started, but it has only been two days since I've begun. This concludes the "test" entry.