Daily Report

Foods within my plan:
Raisen Bran for breakfast
leftover meat, 1 banana, 1 pear for lunch

Food outside my plan:
McDonalds for dinner (I know)
A few cookies

Exercise:
45 minutes of cardio on the eliptical machine
no weight lifting.

My Birthday

Happy Birthday to me.  My girlfriend tried last night to make me dinner although I was still going to be required to eat it by myself since she had night class.  It didn’t quite turn out like it was supposed to.  She did make some meat that I brought for lunch to work today and that was about the only thing she made that came out correctly, except for the cake which she said was ugly, it tasted good though.  She made some twice baked potatos in the oven which looked good but had to be thrown away because she had put the glass dish they were in on the stove with a burner turned on and the glass exploded.  There were also some veggies I think, I couldn’t tell, the pan was blackened and in the sink, there were a few beans in the pan still.  She was a little upset, I found it kinda funny and sweet that at least she tried because she doesn’t cook at all.  I look forward to eating more cake tonight too which isn’t going to help me much with my weight loss goals, I will just have to pace myself and eat just a small piece each night.  Or I could eat it all tonight and take the temptation away, hmm that seems like a good idea too.

Daily Report

Foods within my plan:
Raisen Bran for breakfast
Homemade chili for lunch and dinner

Foods outside my plan:
1.5 bagel
2 candy bars
1 peice of cake (it was my birthday)

Exercise:
Back and bicep weight lifting
Air Force PT for cardio

Screenlets

So I am trying to get my Ubuntu up and working and found a  great tool that would emulate my Yahoo widgets I have on Windows called Screenlets (www.screenlets.org).  I got it all installed but have not been able to get any of the screenlets to work correctly yet.  A few of the extras that I am looking for is one to automatically randomly change the background, a weather widget to let me know what the forecast is, a stock ticker, and maybe a few others.  Hopefully I will get it working tonight, thats my goal at least, but I also need to start working on my school work that is due this weekend. (yuck).

Monday night weigh in

28 pounds to go for my target weight that I want by Christmas.  The sad thing is that I don’t think I have time to hit my target weight without it being unhealthy weight loss.  In order to do it I would have to lose 4 – 5 pounds a week and I have heard they say that its only safe to lose 2 -3 pounds a week.  So I will fall a little short of my goal but I will still push forward to it and keep everyone update on my progress.  Let the encouragement and questions flow.

Daily Report

Foods within my plan:
Raisen Bran for breakfast
Turkey sandwich and pear for lunch

Foods outside my plan:
Runza (I was in a hurry for dinner)
2 handfuls of pretzels

Exercise:
Chest and tricep weight lifting during lunch hour
1.5 mile run, ab exercises, and 30 minutes of cardio

Daily Report

Weekend Foods:
4 biscuits for breakfast
Village Inn for lunch, (girlfriend’s parents took us out to eat for lunch)
Pringles
Small bowl of homemade “heart burn” chili.

Took the day off for exercise.

Ubuntu is woking!!

So earlier this week I installed Ubuntu (see www.ubuntu.com).  The only problem with it that I had was the wireless Internet would not work.  So I went and got some new wires and plugged it in with wires and I am now up and running without any extra changes made at all.  So now I am actually writing this from within Ubuntu itself and I’ve already got several things up and running which is also cool.  I’ve also got all of my necessary applications up and running, I can watch movies and listen to mp3s.  Now I have to start fiddling with Wine to see if I can get some of the games I enjoy playing running also some key software like BigOven that I use as my recipe collection and MS Money which I already know might be a little more difficult if its possible at all.  Exciting stuff!

Daily Post

Weekend foods:
Cinnamon rolls for breakfast
Homemade “heart burn” chili for dinner
I’m trying to get a good recipe for a chili cookoff this one gave me heartburn.
Pringles for snack
1 bottle of Pepsi

Daily Report

Food within my plan:
Raisen Bran
Turkey sandwich with half a bowl of home made chili

Questionable food:
1/2 sandwich and soup with wheat bagette from Panerra Bread

Food outside of the plan:
1 handful of pretzels
2 20oz cups of Dr Pepper
3 sugar cookies

Exercise:
No weight lifting
Calisthenics and 45 minute run
No abs