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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Four emotions I am feeling right now. I haven’t made it any secret that football season has been one of my week points this past year. Every time a Cowboys game was set to come on I was planning bigger and better spreads. More beer, more food, more everything. I was living it up watching my favorite team, America’s Team, kick some ass this year. The way the Cowboys played through the first half of this football season made me remember the days of 10+ years ago when Troy, Emmitt and Michael ran the offense and the team was next to unstoppable. But then as the season wore on, they started to show some weaknesses and things started to get shaken up a bit. I figured, ahh.. no big deal , they will get their stuff together and get back in the groove.

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Well, I have been looking for ways to expand my horizons and reach out to the rest of the world. My first step in that process was to set up a profile at Technorati. For a person who works with the web to make a living, I am a slow adapter when it comes to using technology like this for myself. The family dog has a MySpace account, but not me. It was only recently that I set up an account at YouTube. I dunno what to say. I’m just slow about that sort of thing. I think it is mostly a time factor. But, I figured maybe it was time to break out of that habit and start exploring all the networking sites that exist. Here is my Technorati Profile.

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As I was poking around here in my word press admin panel, I noticed an old post I had started that was about a Hike I took with my son at Ricketts Glen State Park. When I initially started writing the post, I had been editing it and deleted about 3/4 of the post and saved before I realized what happened. I had just left the post figuring I would rewrite it at a later time. I never did get around to rewriting it and figured I would just post it now so I could share the pictures. We went camping at Ricketts Glen State Park back in August and we were both just blown away by the waterfalls. So when he had a day off of school in October. We went back. Here is the post, with some of the picture we took along the hike. The pictures we take next time should be even better since I bought my wife a much better camera (Canon Digital Rebel XTi) for Christmas and plan on slipping it into my bags when we take our camping trip this year

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7 days into my new start, things are going well. My second weigh-in for the year has arrived. While, it wasn’t anything to write home about. It was still a drop. After weeks and months of slacking, it feels good to be moving in the right direction again. Today was day three since my visit with the nutritionist and my decision to get out of the house on a daily basis and take a walk. I hesitated going out today as the temp dropped a bit overnight and it has been raining all morning.

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