I love that I started playing basketball again; it makes me feel great after an hour and a half, even though my feet are swollen, and generally feel like a wet rag that was run over by a Mack truck.
So…it was a drag last week when I hurt my lower back, after grabbing a rebound and twisting in an awkward way. I got the rebound, but as soon as I turned to run up the court I knew there were problems. A week later, my back is still barking at me. I could barely walk for 3 days, couldn’t ride my bike, couldn’t even sit in one spot for long. [click to continue…]
No, I’m not suggesting health through better chemistry, but using ibuprofen can be helpful when trying to do certain exercise activities. I use ibuprofen (400 mg) before I play my regular, twice weekly basketball game, because it keeps the swelling down in my feet, allowing me to play without pain. Yeah, I know I need to lose weight, then I wouldn’t have to deal with my feet swelling, but I am over weight. [click to continue…]
I want to scream into the face of the bastard that invented Cheetos. Fuck, fuck, fuck … I’m addicted to those orange, salty, crunchy (I don’t like the puffy kind), death snacks.
That’s right, I called them death snacks. They’re bad as hell for you, I know, even though some time ago they tried to trick me by putting “no trans fats” on the package. Anything that orange has to be bad for you. It’s the same color as nuclear radiation on the Simpson’s! [click to continue…]
When I was writing about my small Cheetos problem, I though it was a good thing that I wasn’t creating recipes to fit more Cheetos into my diet, then that made me wonder about some of the things people were doing with those orange devils. Check out this dude, who looks like a professional chef, creating a Cheetos/broccoli recipe:
I think the Cheeto orange has gone to his brain, causing some problems with his judgement, because Cheetos are not supposed to be combined with food that comes out of the ground.
If you want to go on a bender and start making Cheetos based dinners, here are some screwy recipes that I’ve found:
Because prepared foods are to be avoided, and I need to eat a hearty breakfast, I have developed my own little recipe called power oatmeal. It has twice the calories as one of those little oatmeal packets, but also much more protein and fiber.
If you want to lose weight, you must stop eating prepared foods as much as possible. Prepared foods have either too much sodium, too much fat, too many bad carbs, too much cholesterol, or often times, too much of all the above. [click to continue…]
Does that make sense, that I would be eating more but still losing weight? Well, if you were to only read the headline it would make absolutely no sense! But read on and I’ll tell you how I’m doing it.
Step one: keep your cupboards full of healthy food that you’ll eat, not healthy food someone told you to eat, though you have no interest in touching, even if it sits on your shelf for 2 years. That’s happened to me; last week I found something on the shelf that was a year past the expiration date. [click to continue…]
A funny thing happened when I started using the iPhone app Lose It! to monitor my eating habits: my habits changed. Radically. Not that I don’t backslide sometimes, but all the dietary information, in context, is in my hand.
By entering my eating and exercise choices into Lose It!, I can see the progress I’m making in changing my behavior and make adjustments. For example, under the nutrients panel I saw that my sodium intake was off the charts (see my post about sodium and Trader Joe’s), even though I hardly ever put salt on my food. Looking through my food log, I saw that there were a few key entries that bumped up my sodium: can soup, veggie burgers (healthy?!), and a couple of other prepared foods. [click to continue…]
I’ve tried to lose weight many times before, mostly falling flat on my face. I had all kinds of excuses: depression, billigerence, misanthropy, laziness …. then recently a lever in my mind switched without me being aware that it might happen. A total surprise. Pleasant.
I found 3 iPhone applications that changed my life, making the weight loss journey much easier. No, not easier, I guess; this journey is still like slogging through quick sand. But these apps caused that lever to flip. [click to continue…]
I have high blood pressure and I’m predisposed to have it; my father’s kind of pumped up too. I haven’t been paying the proper attention to this condition, not as much as a former doctor said I should, but I’m trying to now.
I asked my doctor if leeches would help, but he said no, which didn’t make sense to me; if my blood pressure is high, I must have too much blood, then it would be a good thing to drain some of that blood. Seems like leeches were used a lot a hundred years ago, but they’re making a comeback: the FDA approved the medical use of leeches in 2004. [click to continue…]
So, there is my fat face, looking at you on the right. I have pretty much always had a fat face, at least since I was aware of something called “weight” and that it meant something. Even after I walked the Appalachian Trail in 1990, and lost 35 pounds, I felt fat. My gut was saggy and it looked like I had a paunch, though I weighed about 180 pounds.
And so here we are today. I weigh a lot more than 180 pounds, I weigh more than you see me in that photo (though it is just two years old), and I have a lot to lose. [click to continue…]
I'm Bill Weye — I'm trying to lose weight, maybe just like you. Learning about exercise and healthful eating helps me lose weight, which I share here. I also blog at Weye.org.
