My Diet / Exercise Progress

So I found a scale at work, so hopefully things will be more accurate. Its a fancy type that they have at the Doctor's office.

Eating: Not doing good, but not eating as much. I'm eating the same food, but just less of it which I think is a good start. A drastic change might cause my body to hold all it's lardness.

Exercise: Used the new hyper extension thing and it seems to work. I'm realizing time is a problem though. I'm just going to need to pack my exercise into a specified time every day. Maybe I can figure out how to get up earlier. That would require me to go to bed on time...that never seems to happen.

Weight:
Orginal: 190
Current: 184

Time on my quest: 6 days

Walmart WAL-MART or Wal-Mart I HATE YOU

Went to my local Benton Harbor Walmart to get school supplies for the kids and a few groceries. Had Jodi and the baby with, so we thought the evening would be quick. HA!

Things you should know about WalMart

1. Never go there in the evening. It is full of complete idiots (shoppers and employees)
So child preditors, scarey people, bridge card users, extreme coupon users and many other individuals that love to just piss you off. I have no problem seeing a young Mom with a little baby with a bridge card to buy their groceries. What I can handle are people who walk up confused on what they can buy with them. Oh, I can't buy this beer or these clothes? Oh really? GEEZ people...even I know that and I know nothing about the damn card.
Coupon users are now my enemy when they pull out 100 coupons. Last night...one man...45 bucks worth of coupons...small cart full of soap, shavers and misc small crap...30 minute checkout. GRR....At least tell people that you have a million reciepts. The worst part is he had to have three transactions to complete his order. Oh yeah...walmart sucks and the people who visit.

2. Buying school supplies are probably cheaper than anywhere, but at a price of fighting for space in the aisle. People will walk in front of you, stand in your way and just annoy the piss out of you. Me and Jodi ended up in a fight because of our tension being in that store. So if you want to save a marriage...stay the hell away from Wal-Mart. Go to target and spend a few more bucks...leave happy and in love. (and yes...me and Jodi are fine...it was just the moment of being in hell mart)

3. Ordering something online from Wal-Mart. Never ever ever ever try to return it or you'll really confuse the one tooth employee that is trying to figure out what you mean by "online order". Unless they have a receipt from the store...just forget it.

So I've decided. No matter how great the deals are...I'll give Wal-Mart a visit at most 2 times per year and it will only be in the morning when most of the nut jobs are not there.

I am making a promise to the world. I will buy more locally to my house, smaller business and do anything to reduce Wal-Marts earnings. Maybe people will follow me in my quest to lower the stock and finally push them down. They can keep breeding the insane by hiring them, feeding them and selling things cheaper. I refuse to be a part of it every week to prevent going insane.

-jot3

The Scale

So I've been trying to figure out this big game plan on how I will exercise, but ran into a bit of a problem. My scale is always wrong. It's not old and it is a mechanical type, so who knows why it is pure crap.

Like you may have read, I'm tipping the scale at 190 lbs. 24 hours later I was showing 181! Now how can that be? 24 hours after that, I'm 188...

So now i'm puzzled and can only assume my scale is crap.

So the new exercise thing seems cool. You can feel it immediately after doing around 10 pull ups with your back.

I have of "so" starts to my sentences. So, that is it...I'm done. Look foward to making my weight and daily exercise public starting tonight.

-jot

When a man gets lucky...

So it's been over 8 years now since me and Jodi first started dating. Of course with only one kid and really young, Jodi still looked great.

After a few years and a few kids, you get busy having a family, cleaning a house and pretty much being the slave of the family.

So why am I so lucky? Well Jodi has been amazing...She has gone from a young girl to a wonderful and beautiful woman. In the last several months we have really grown strong together. I love her to death and I'm so lucky to have her.

So the extra lucky part?

She gets more beautiful with age and also seems to have changed since we had Nathan.

Take a look...





Ok, so the last one Jodi was being cheesy, but isn't that just amazing?
Yep...I'm lucky. Got a best friend and she is super cute (and hot...I'm sure Jodi would prefer hot over cute)

I love you honey bunny...

-jot3

190 and sick of it

Depression after gaining weight
Ok, so I'm finally old and fat. Both suck. So I have to do something about it. I'm going to post something daily on here so I can actually see what I've been doing to exercise and eating right.

So I have never weighed this much in my life. 190 lbs. Yikes! I think my weight and height is suppose to put me somewhere around 150-160 lbs.

I'll start walking through my workout plan each day. I'm going to include video of sarcastic stuff soon as well. Maybe some progress videos to see if I'm losing weight. Yeah, those pictures are going to look sick at first.

Today's Goal:

Setup hyper extension (back / stomach ) exercise thing & Move Eliptical

This thing will kill me at first, but I used something like this at the YMCA years ago. Great to strengthen your stomach and back.
All of my weight is in my gut...

I have to pull the eliptical out too now that the basement is close enough to being finished.

My Theory on Corn Syrup & Fat People

This theory is based on nothing else except stuff I make up that may or may not be based on scientific evidence or in depth studies that would either prove or disprove my theories.

So corn syrup...what is it. Something goopy that comes from corn? Corn smashed up until it becomes glue? Super glue and corn mixed together to make corn syrup? Or maybe it is corn that grows on trees and the corn sap comes down and they catch it in buckets in some wild forest...

Well whatever corn syrup is, I think it creates fat people. When I was young, I would run around and come in for some koolaid....oh yeah.....that was the stuff! It was made from some powder crap, real sugar and water. So now what do kids drink when they come in from playing outside? Hmm, well we make sure our kids always have water they can access all by theirselves in the frig and we try to give them 100% fruit juice. On the other hand, we have kids...like my old neighbors that would walk around with cans of pop...made from CORN SYRUP! Did I mention they were fat...yep, they are fat...well were...they moved...phew...

So back to corn syrup...I swear anything with any sweet flavor is now made with corn syrup. Even honey from Popeyes chicken has freaking corn syrup in it. Good grief...isn't honey sweet enough!

So if you want to lose weight...pick two shows a week on TV to watch, spend the rest of the time moving and stay off corn syrup.

-JOT3

PS Did you ever think about corn you eat at home? Why does it stay together...why does it come out of your butt still corn? If your body cannot break down regular corn into a brown like substance, then why would we ever think corn syrup would break down. :-)