Jumbo Rider’s BodyBlog

After I eat crap I get huge cravings.   It takes a few days of eating clean to not crave the pizza etc.   Today I finally feel normal.  What causes these cravings?  I really am not sure.

I know that gluten messes with me.  Bread kicks my butt.  Overly sweet items also seem to create a craving in me.  Diet soda/cool-aid and the like may have no calories but they seem to stimulate my cravings.  Back to water and lightly sweetened green tea.

Watching TV coupled with not working out builds my cravings.  You can only see so many Domino’s commercials before giving into the temptation.  So I need to stay busy in the house and not vegetate.

Week 1 win goes to BLSMITH –Our Discipline Warrior of the week!!

• Jumbo Rider - Diet= 0   Workout = 0   Total = 0
• BLSMITH      - Diet= 1 Workout = 2 Total = 3
• Kiszes         - Diet = 0 Workout = 2 Total = 2
• Dare to Soar  Diet = 1 Workout = 2 Total = 3

Let me know if you would like to join the challenge

While I am still waiting for my fellow contestants to tell me how they scored their first week in the DW contest I will give you mine.   Give Jumbo a big fat 0 for both diet and workout.

There has been a mental block to both my diet and training.   This seems to have gotten straightened out this weekend, but does have me a bit worried.  Junk food simply has a hold on me.  Pizza and ice cream led to white bread and butter (known as toast) have found their way into my diet far too often and in far to large a quantity.  The supplements that had led to my current success seemed too difficult to take as of late.  Veggies that had replaced much of my diet have been too rare as of late as well.  This all led to my goose egg score.

Today has seen a big turnaround.  My supplements have been taken and I am drinking my water.  There is still a problem with eating as I have not had my meals every 3 hours.  Eating every three hours is key to keeping me rock steady and leading to me becoming rock hard.  By eating every three hours my blood sugar is stabilized and my poor eating temptations are avoided.  This also keeps me safe from my nemesis….the binge.

Workouts begin today.   It is the same boring stuff that I had been doing earlier this year.  Band workouts, mobility, and a bit of walking.  Tomorrow will see me swimming, walking, and stretching.

My immediate goal is to get to 325.  Once I hit 325 I will treat myself to some pizza and prepare for my next goal of 299.  Getting out of the 300’s is going to be such a mental relief.

This July I go to Vegas for a conference.  As a 380 pound man I avoided airline travel at all costs.  The seating situation was never comfortable for me or my isle-mates.  Office chairs that used to cut off circulation to my legs as the chair arms pinched in on my thighs are now fitting much better.  This bodes well for the airline seats but I need to be much slimmer to make the seating close to comfortable.  This is why my goal is to drop below 300 prior to my July 15th flight.

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I met with friends that I  had worked with several years ago.  In my mind’s view I was much smaller when they saw me last, but they were all surprised to see me so slim.  My weight must have been huge farther back in time than I actually recall.  In any case, having people that have not seen me in 5 or so years exclaim joy at my weight-loss made me feel pretty good about myself.  In fact, it was meeting with my old friends that has probably has brought me back to my healthy ways.

Discipline Warrior Page for Results 

Ok guys and gals it has started.  If you are interested in this friendly 12 week contest it is not too late to join.  Currently there are 4 people competing.  The rules are in the post before this one.

At this time I am workout=0 points and diet= 0 points, but that all changes as of today.

This Sunday, April 20th, begins the first Discipline Warrior 12 week contest.  Unlike other contests that judge physique or weight-loss, this contest gauges your tenacity, your discipline.  This leaves the contest open to those very fit and unfit.

How does this contest work?

Each week you will judge your own effort in two categories,  workout and diet.  You will award your self 0-3 points in each of these categories dependent on performance.

3 = 100% on point

2 = Pretty good but could have been better

1 = Well I tried but….

0 = Complete wipe out..

It is completely at your discretion what constitutes the a 3 week or a 0 week.

Total the points for the two categories each Sunday and put a comment on my bodyspace and I will update scores in a page on my bodyblog that you can link to if you wish.

If you would like to participate just send me a PM or leave a comment.

Rewards?  Bragging rights.

Who is participating?

BLSMITH

Jumbo Rider

This is just a bunch of free form thoughts that are flowing through my head:

• Am I looking at the pictures of women on BB.com inappropriately?   Is there lust in my heart as I look?  I won’t try to deny that I appreciate the beauty found in many of the pictures, I honestly don’t believe that I am looking with a lustful heart.  There is a difference between looking at nude art and Penthouse.  My viewing of the women on the site is to view the work that has been done on their physique, be it weight-loss, muscle gain, or definition.

• What is up with all the tattoos?  I am not a big fan of tattoos but do not think any less of people with tattoos.  No, that is not true.  When I see a woman with a tattoo on the small of their back or anywhere else, I see it as a beautiful work, their body, of art with an ink blot messing it up.  Don’t get me wrong, I know the work and art that goes into the tattoos, but I think they pale in comparison to the work of art that is their body.   All of that said, I would never think less of the person’s person-hood.  I would hire, befriend, learn from, date, marry a tattooed person, but I will never really understand the why.  The good news is that it doesn’t matter what I think or that I know why.  It is really an age/location thing.  If you can explain the popularity, especially the popularity of a stamp on the small of the back, please change my point of view.

• I know bb.com exists to make money, but what a great site it is.  This site has really helped me focus on my goals.  It has motivated me and introduced me to people that motivate me.

• I would rather have my body completely tattooed than be fat.

• While I can’t say I have regrets, I can say that I would do many things differently if I had my 43 years to live again.  I would carpe diem every day.  I would take care of what I have better.  I would have less.  I would save more.  I would be outside more.  I would have a different career.  I would have gone straight through college and earned a PH.d.

• I am grateful to have been given life and lived in a prosperous nation.

I am so absolutely in a walking sleep.  There is no energy and I am struggling just to get through my work day.  This is probably because I have been eating junk for the past few days and my body is screaming for nutrition.  Simply picking myself up and moving forward.

Have you ever wondered why you do things that you know is wrong or bad for you?  Augustine said that man loved good and loved bad.  Both of those loves are very strong and competing for time and attention.  Fortunately there was another love in man.  That love loves the good and hates the bad.  I would lay you even money that Freud read Augustine when he developed his theory of the ego, superego, and Id.

Well, there is a part of me that loves getting fit and a part that loves binging on junk food.  There is a part of me that believes it is worth the time and effort to prepare my foods and a part of me that loves being lazy and simply calling for Chinese delivery.  There is also a part of me that is proud and enthusiastic that I have a love for getting fit and sick/embarrassed by that other part of me.

I finally made my move and saw a chiropractor that was ARTS certified for my shoulder.  It is difficult to describe my shoulder issue but I will try.  On a pain threshold of 1-10 with 10 being able to stand pure torture and 7 being labor, I have a threshold of maybe 1.2.

Both of my shoulders are "frozen’ which, basically, means that I have limited motion and pain.  The pain is an ache when not moving my arm and shooting/burning when I move my arm in certain ways.  More troubling for me than the pain is the weakness and fatigue my shoulders have.  It makes working out a problem.

I sought help from my doctors and went through PT and found no, zero relief.  Then I read about trigger points, soft tissue work, and started doing self massage.  The self massage made a remarkable difference but only took me so far.  This is why I went to an ARTS practitioner.

Basically the chiropractor applied pressure to certain muscle/nerve areas while moving my arm in a range of motion.  The outcome is a stretching of muscle fibers and the hope is that the stretching will resolve the pain and improve my range of motion.  After my first visit we focused on my left shoulder and I had a remarkable reduction in pain.  There was really no change in my range of motion, but I don’t feel the resistance to the motion as strongly as before the therapy.  The result was a night of sleep without discomfort in my shoulder.

I go back to the chiropractor Friday and he will work both shoulders.  When I say work shoulders I mean that he works all areas that affect my particular restriction.  This work involved muscles in my back, down my side, my pecs, down my arm, and the shoulder area itself.  So it is more than simply focusing on the spot of adhesion.  Between now and Friday the chiropractor requested that I do work that involved my shoulders so he can get a good indication of the change his session made.

There was no weigh-in this morning, but I finally broke out new pants.  My old pants were 56 waists and the pants I am wearing now are 52.  I need new shirts too but can get away with the shirts I have as long as they are tucked into my pants.  When I finished basic training for the Army my waist was a 36 but 38 was the waist that is most natural for me to carry.