In an attempt to try and generate some useful and informative posts on the weigh in forums, I am running a contest. It is a simple contest with prizes being awarded to 6 winners. The prizes include The Calorie King Food and Exercise Journal, The CalorieKing - Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter 2008 Edition and a 1 year subscription to calorieking.com. All that you need to do in order to win, is register for a free account on the weigh in forums and start posting. Click here to find out all of the contest details.

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Well, despite my strong start to this year, I have kind of strayed from my motivational high and moved into a holding pattern. My biggest issue right now is time. I have none of it. I seem to do best when I can focus on eating well and making the best choices. When I have the time to figure out the best foods to eat, plan a menu, figure out my calorie intake and write about my progress. It’s fairly obvious I haven’t had much time to write about progress or lack of it seeing as I haven’t made a post in close to a month. I just haven’t had the time lately, so I have just kind of gone into a holding pattern at around 360lb. At my last visit to the nutritionist, she suggested that I was her success story and indicated that if I never lost another pound, my weight loss to this point could still be considered a huge success. I suppose in the text book sense that is all fine and dandy.

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Today was my return visit with the nutritionist. I haven’t written much in the last few weeks. I have been busy with work and slightly discouraged at the fact that things have been harder this time around. My weigh in today put me at 2 pounds less than my visit last month and the past two weekly weigh-ins have showed no change from the last one I posted a dew weeks back. I haven’t stuck to the walks on a daily basis. Although I am still taking them, a few issues have made it difficult to stay with them every day. The first being the weather. The town I live in must never have heard of snow plows. When we get snow, it stays on half of the roads until it is gone. Makes me wonder why it is I pay taxes. Another issue has been my back. I have been having problems with my back for years. I finally had some X-rays last February to figure out what was going on. I always figured it was just from being a fat ass that caused the pain and once I started losing weight, it would diminish. Was I wrong. I found out that I have an issue with my lower back called Lumbar Spondylolisthesis. Here is the information from my doctor about it.

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I made my monthly trek to the nutritionist today. It wasn’t the monthly weigh in I had hoped for but I still showed a loss. I dropped two pounds since my last visit. Im not exactly sure how that is, since I lost 5 pounds on my home scale making a 3 pound difference in there somewhere. In any case today I had my Resting Metabolic Rate tested so I knew how many calories my body burns in a day just by doing nothing. If you have never had this test done. You should. It’s tons of fun. First you get to clamp your nose shut with this tight plastic clamp. I wish I had a mirror handy so I could have seen that! Then you get to sit with a small plastic machine with a mouthpiece attachment sticking out of your mouth for the next 10 minutes or so while you breath through it. I wasn’t in the best of moods today. So, I was too pissed off to be bothered by how ridiculous I might have looked and just read through some papers the doctor gave me on weight loss tips and diet suggestions while I sat and breathed. In the end it said my Resting Metabolic Rate was 2550 calories. So, if I were to do nothing every day and set my calorie target at 2000 I should see a 2 pound per week loss. Now I have something to set my mark at and all I need to do is get myself tracking calorie intake on a daily basis and I will be better off.

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A big congrats goes out to the New York Giants fans that might have read my post a few weeks ago after they beat the Cowboys. While I might still feel the Cowboys were the better team in that game. The Giants surely just proved themselves to be the Championship team with the Super Bowl win. I am dumbfounded at the fact that they were able to win the Super Bowl. But, they did. So, congrats. I will enjoy watching the Cowboys beat your asses next year….

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We bought the kids a Nintendo Wii for Christmas. Our 6 year old had been begging for one for about 4 months and it was the only thing he wanted. He had a Game Cube before that and is a huge Mario fan so we got him two Mario games to go with it. Plus it came with two other game packs, one of them being Wii Sports. Up until tonight he has mostly been playing the Mario Games but, I told him last night that we would spend some time playing together tonight. Well, after a few hours of trying to get something to work for a website I am working on, I was ready for a break and we had a blast playing some of the Wii Sports games like bowling and golf.

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Well, I had my weekly weigh-in post typed up this morning and wrote about my 5 pound loss. I had forgotten to post it and just did that now. After getting it typed up I went for my daily walk. It was probably the worst day so far for the walk. Not because of the walk itself but, because it snowed last night and the roads were a mess. It made for a slip sliding not-so-good time. After getting back from my walk, my wife and I headed out to get some things done. While we were out, we decided to get something to eat and went to, you guessed it, the Chinese Buffet. So, I lasted about two weeks without going and already broke my rule about only going after my monthly visit with the nutritionist.

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Today marks my third weigh-in for 2008 and two weeks from the beginning of my New Start. I was unsure what today would bring. I had done well almost all week, with the exception of last Sunday. I stuck to my plan and ate almost only fruit for breakfast. One day I had two English Muffins. My lunches were light. Most days keeping under 400 calories. While my dinners were probably bigger than they should have been, they were well balanced and I did try to cut back some on portion size. I still need to work on portion size and I still need to get back into the food logs. I am getting there slowly, tracking on some days. Now I just need to be consistent and do it every day. I stuck with my daily walks to get in 15 - 20 minutes of exercise with the exception of this past weekend.

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Despite the fact that I hate the cold weather and it keeps getting colder and colder. I have kept with my daily walks. I skipped last Saturday and Sunday. Not sure if that was good or bad but, Monday I was back out without any issues. The temperature has been creeping ever lower all week and is expected to be about 8 on Sunday. I think I will probably skip Saturday and Sunday this weekend as well. We’ll see. I got a new batter for my Pedometer and although I still need to calculate my stride, the pedometer shows that the walk takes about 1300 steps and is 1/2 mile which puts me at 2mph since it takes about 15 minutes. Not bad for a start. My new sneakers have shipped and will hopefully be here by next Monday or Tuesday. I’m looking forward to having decent shoes to try out. I have been dealing with the cold by adding some extra layers and doubling up on my hoods. If nothing else, the dog sure doesn’t seem to mind it. He is starting to get used to the walks. He seems to even know when it is time to go as he is always looking to his leash at that time of day. Tomorrow is my second weigh in since my new start so we will see how things have gone so far and figure out what needs to change from here on out.

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Well, I finally got around to making up a MySpace profile. I’m not sure what it is about MySpace. But, it has always left a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe it is just my anti-social nature that makes me feel that way about a social networking site.. Who knows… In any case, I jumped in head first and got things set up. I will work on a little bit and make it look better in a few days. I have been busy with a few other projects the past week which has kept me from doing much of anything for this site as well. Here is the link: Built Big XL.

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