Weighing in can be a good or bad thing, but is a great way to keep track of your progress and see the results and stay encouraged! Old scales can do that for you, but I’ve been taking advantage of the Wii Fit daily Body Test to keep track of my weight loss. Make sure you weigh in at the same time everyday and have fun watching the line on the graph drop, and your Mii shrinking!

This past week was a bit slower with the weigh loss.  I think it is mainly because I didn’t get in my first workout till Thursday night, which got it back up to speed.  Wanted to share some struggles and fun things from this weeks weight loss.

Bad: After celebrating an exciting event for our friend and having a small sliver of chocolate cake, my weight loss halted for a couple of days(could also be due to no exercise earlier in the week).  Late night hunger pangs are no good! Trying to get to bed at the same time as sleep is a very important part of losing weight.

The Good:  This week I didn’t lose as much but I’m up to a total of about 10 lbs weigh loss, which puts me right on track for 10 lbs every 2 weeks which means 30 lbs in 6 weeks.  My wife got a coupon for some free chick fil a and I wanted to go with her but didn’t want to splurge after my slow weight loss this week, but alas! Chick Fil A has a great Calorie Calculator and Healthy Options (both of those are clickable links) and offers several variations of meals that are under 500 and reasonable meals up to 650 cals! I opted for a Chargrilled chick fil a sandwich, a cup of fruit, coke zero, and even got a small ice dream cone putting my dinner at 510 calories! Really thankful for the site to lay it out for me and would love more restaurants to offer up healthier dining options.

So, even with a small celebration cake(the cake is a lie), I am right on track for dropping 30 lbs in 6 weeks! For any of you reading, I hope this is some helpful information and encourages you to pursue eating healthier and getting in some exercise as well!

So, week one is complete and I wanted to share my results and trials I experienced this week:

First off we will start with the struggles.  We went out to lunch with some friends and tried cooking our own meals instead of doing the lean cuisines that exclude my wife and I cooking together, and us both eating seperate meals.  We did spaghetti one night, and using healthy ingredients we had no problem with keeping the dinner calories under 500!  My biggest struggle was going out to eat with our friends on Sunday afternoon. We opted for Moes and I considered it would be one of the healthier choices to eat out with everyone, I was wrong!  The lowest calories for most of the items on the menu averaged above 600 for things for “adults” and the things you would assume are healthy are far from it!  I opted for a moo moo mr. cow( i did not feel cool ordering that at all, and they gave me the same price as the Joey Bag of Donuts!!!, buy the bag of donuts, split it in two) with chicken, rice, beans, pico, tiny sprinkle of cheese and salsa.  So, avoid Moes if you are looking to drop some calories, or make it at home!

The good: I lost a ton of weight! I know it’s unusual, but I weighed in on Friday and had dropped 6 lbs!  I will weigh again tonight, but pretty sure I’ve reached a 7 lb loss for week one, which probably will not be the norm.  I’m used to eating smaller meals and still feeling great. I will lay out for you what a typical day looks like:

Breakfast- 2 Thin sliced Bagels(Plain, Wheat, Everything) with non-fat cream cheese and a small glass of OJ.

Lunch- A sandwich on wheat bread, 8 slices of turkey and non-fat american cheese and one diet soda.

Afternoon snack- I switch between any two of these: Cup of grapes, cantaloupe, banana, light yogurt, and  sugar-free pudding.

Dinner- It’s either a lean cuisine, or a 500 calorie portion of these: Spaghetti, home made pita pizzas, tacos(not much different in fat between ground turkey which was shocking), jumbalaya, maybe a chinese dish this week.

Late night snack- Usually kick it off with 3 tbsp of air popped popcorn(huge amount!) and a scoop of low fat yogurt ice cream( i put a drizzle, less than a teaspoon, of chocolate to add some flavor)

So there you have it! The meals won’t change at all and I will continue to update and throw in some pics and videos. I did not take a before picture this time, but I guarantee people will see the results I’m already seeing. My t-shirts are fitting comfortably again and I’m beginning to see a lot of loss around the tummy area.

Here is Proof. lol.

Hopefully this won’t be the last of the snow, but it was more than we had last year and is still coming down at 10 pm!

My most recent cover with a harmony and acoustic. Check it out! Don’t forget to comment and rate on youtube!

For the Haters who think it’s a fake, this will show how much it’s not a fake!

Hey, thanks to a heads up from JLA on twitter, I found out about this competion for a new computer that we could use big time! The rules say that the judgement will be based on views, comments and fanbase, so I need your help! Please Rate, Comment and Favorite this video! You can send it to everyone you know and it has footage of Yuki chilling on my shoulder which is one of her favorite things, besides helping me make the bed. Help us get the kitten cam back up and be able to browse easier at home!  The link to the youtube page for comments and ratings, etc. is HERE

Thanks so much for your help, and they will announce the winner on Monday so I need to get views FAST!

Apple’s big announcement comes tomorrow and everyone is speculating what it will be. Most people are guessing the iSlate, which will be a larger iphone/ipod touch type screen, but I don’t think it will be that at all.

“Come and See our latest creation”

Apple tends to hide details about what is released in the title. Everyone remembers the “Something’s in the air” from when they announced the Macbook Air. Nothing from “Come and see our latest creation” screams iSlate to me. It does scream goggles that play your videos from your iPod.

If you remember a couple years ago apple patented goggles, that would be fiber optic and look more sleek and I’m sure have better graphics and make you feel like your in a movie theater and would have head tracking technology(which would tie in perfectly with the already extensive list of iPhone apps that use the accelerometer, now with your head). I am almost willing to bet that this is what we will be seeing tomorrow!

UPDATE: New Video Click HERE

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Oh yeah, that’s right! Will post how it’s done later! Share with all your friends.

Can’t wait for Emily Elbert to put out another cd, until then, get this song for free, CLICK HERE