Ive been reading the book The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
I havent gotten very far, but so far it makes a lot of sense. Yesterday, I stopped by Boulder Running Company to pick up a Garmin 010-00658-30 Forerunner 405CX GPS Sport Watch with Heart Rate Monitor (Blue)
Being a lover of contrary behavior, I stopped at McDonalds on the way home. After all, I had just bought a super-duper heart rate monitor with the intent of working out more often. To add to the silliness, I broke out the End to Overeating book on my iPhone Kindle app (apparently you cant buy an iPhone through Amazon, so no link for you!).
I mean seriously, can you imagine? I just spent $350 on a heart rate monitor, was eating at McDonalds while reading a book about weight loss? Im high-lar-e-ous.
Anyway, a couple of pages in there is a short discussion about how food logs dont work, especially for overeaters, because they lie. That requiring dieters to photograph their food with a time and date stamp seemed to work better.
I thought to myself, as I ate my second apple pie, “thats interesting.”
Today, I struck out trying to find an easy way to make it happen. First, I decided I wanted to use Posterous. Why? Well, because I havent figured out a great way to use it yet, and I am a big fan of Garry and Sachin’s.
All day I tried different things. I played with PicPosterous, the iPhone app, but it didnt do exactly what I wanted. (It needs the ability for me to write a short description of the photo).
I tried flickr and tumblr, but they werent exactly what I wanted.
Then I found this out about Posterous. If you send an email to the service name, it will only autopost to that service. For example, if I send a photo to flickr+twitter [at] posterous [dot] com it will only be posted to flickr and twitter (and posterous).
Which lead to to this solution.
I will email photos of what I am eating to twitter [at] posterous [dot] com. Since my twitter goes to my facebook, thats covered. It keeps food photos out of my flickr and tumblr, which is perfect. I will send one email per day, even though it will be multiple photos. You can comment on my food selection on my posterous blog.
Then I will use those photos at the end of the day to update my food diary in DailyBurn.
Finally, I will take a picture of my weekly weigh-in as well.
What do you think? Good idea?
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Im fat.
I took a look at the first post I ever wrote the other day. Entitled Battle of the Belly – Day 1, it proclaimed my desire to lose weight. Then I looked at my second post, Where Have You Been? Or The Continuation of Fatness where I continue to discuss weight loss.
When was it posted? 42 days after the first one. Ouch.
Then over the next 3-4 months, I continued to post about losing weight. Mostly when things were good. Then silence on the fatty side. What happened?
I quit losing weight. I stopped fighting. I failed.
And, instead of standing up and talking about it, I shut the hell up.
For a person that talks a lot about failure, its surprises me a bit that I failed to share in my failure.
Why does all this matter? Well, lemme tell ya!
Im back at the weight loss stuff. I learned over the course of the past year or so that being bipolar made weight loss difficult and weight gain easy. Apparently, most people who are bipolar tend to be addicted to food, drugs or sex. I choose unwisely and ended up being addicted to food and drugs. (If I had only known the choices!)
While its not easy to break an addiction to drugs, its really a binary decision. You either do drugs, or you dont.
I cant stop eating. Well, cant stop for long.
Recently, I found that I am insulin resistant. Due to that, I have started taking a drug called Metformin which is supposed to help my body become less insulin resistant. (BTW, a horrible side effect is it jacks up my stomach. Sometimes really, really badly. Add that to the standard Jewish disposition of having horrible stomach/GI/etc issues, its really, really not fun.)
Over the course of the past few weeks, I am losing weight naturally. Which means, if I want to get serious about losing weight, now is the time.
What’s my plan?
First and foremost, I am using Daily Burn. Daily Burn was a Techstars company last year, and has been doing phenomenally with some great investors. Along with an iPhone app, they allow you to track all your caloric intake (nutrition), workouts and the effect the nutritional choices and workouts have on your body (my belly). What I like about Daily Burn is the addition of social features, which are paramount to success (no one is in this alone, even if you are alone.)
The only benefit of Daily Burn is the ability for me to post most everything I am doing publicly. Here is my Daily Burn Locker Room. Its public. Enjoy. Occasionally it will tweet out achievements and other fitness related information.
I will use Nike+ for when I walk my dogs, or spend time on the treadmill. Again, I will post it on my blog (in a handy dandy widget). I am going to take pictures of myself now and again, and post them to a flickr set on my account. And, finally, I will record videos here and there, and post them to LearnToDuckTV.
Finally, I will ask everyone who knows me to keep me on track. If you think I am slippin’ just ask, or kick in my…butt–doubt you could miss it.
And, of course, periodically, I will write a post about where I am at.
As my mom used to say to me when I pretended I wasnt listening to her, “This time I am not fucking around.”
I want to lose about 100 lbs. Ive given myself about a year to do it.
And…here we go.
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So, I gained 0.6 lbs last week.
Probably why it has taken me a couple of days to post this. Not sure why the gain, other than I didnt really exercise, and I ate like crap. Very up and down. But it taught me something, I get burned out quickly when I am on the weight loss war path for too long. Read the rest of this entry »
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