Jul 05 2005
Week 4
Can’t believe I’ve been at this for 4 weeks now. I’m down to 250 and that 8-10 pound loss is finally starting to loosen up the waistband on my slacks - YAY!
Now I need to start getting off my posterior and working out more…
Archive for the 'diet' Category
Jun 27 2005
Week 3
Well this past weekend I was making Dr. Atkins roll over in his grave. Friday night we had an, albeit late, Valentines Dinner with the couples from church. There were about 30 couples that went out together to a Chinese restaurant and then we played the Newly-Wed game. The youngest couple had only been married 2 years and the oldest have been married a whopping 57 years. Great fun was had by all but Chinese food is NOT carb friendly, well not unless you are on the ALL carb diet. 
Saturday night my new boss invited the IT team and our wives to dinner at Roys in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Roys is known for their Hawaiian Fusion food. Excellent gourmet eats and plenty of good conversation, but again not so carb friendly.
Sunday night I put the last nail in the coffin, my small group went out to Los Chorros a Salvadorian restaurant in Wheaton, MD. This is the place where the Hispanics in the area eat - you know the food is authentic! But… wholly cow I must have packed a months worth of carbs into that one meal.
Damage - as of this morning the evil scale says I’m only down to 255 (whah!!)
Oh well back to the drawing board this week.
Jun 20 2005
More Meat Please
Well today marks my 2nd week on the Atkins diet. Now before y’all start nay-saying the diet, I AM doing it on my doctors recommendataion. How much do I need to lose? Well I’m just shy of 6 foot and I weighed in this morning at a whopping 258. I’d like to get back down to 210 which used to be my happy weight before getting married a short 8 years ago. Needless to say, marriage has been… delicious 
But, I seriously need to get the weight under control. Since my biggest eating problems all have to do with carbs (please pass the bread - again), if nothing else Atkins is helping me to see that I don’t need that bagel every morning, the sandwich on the roll at lunch, and the double helping of rice at dinner. Oh, and let’s not forget the couple of donuts every Sunday during Sunday School; a mainstay at any Presbyterian gathering. (The church should have bought stock in Dunkin Donuts)
Here’s to hoping and praying for another week of being a “good boy”.
