Packer Rats Lose the Pudge Challenge

[MadtownPacker]

Stay away from bagged lettuce!!!

Saw some shit about it having a lot of e-coli risk cuz people dont clean it. The bag says its cleaned but not well enough.

[MJZiggy]

I read that too. I just clean it in a colander (sane people use a lettuce spinner) with a little veggie wash.

[SkinBasket]

Isn't lettuce a complete waste to eat anyway? I thought it had zero value. I've been eating spinach leaves for a few years instead and they are much tastier and make much better salads. Then again, I have no effen clue about nutrition.

[Harlan Huckleby]

with a little veggie wash.

There is a kitchen product called "veggie wash"!? WTF. Life has gotten so damn complicated.

[OS PA]

I am trying to add more fish into my diet. However, the only fish that I like is the breaded stuff like what you get when you go out for your typical Wisconsin fish frys. Smply because it doesn't taste "fishy".

So, I'm just wondering what fish it out there that doesn't taste like fish!!

So far, I've discovered mahi-mahi - it tastes wonderful on the grill. But, I don't want to always heat up the grill just for fish, especially in the winter! Any ideas?

I'm suprised to see nobody has said Tuna. I had fresh Tuna for the first time at a restaurant a couple of days ago and actually thought they had given me an odd sort of chicken instead. It is truly the Chicken of the sea.

Another fish that I enjoy is the Roughie, if prepared correctly it can have no fishy taste. We had it grilled with some seasoning and it was fantastic.

[GBRulz]

I just bought some orange roughy, it wasn't bad at all !

I'm all for fish that doesn't taste like fish!!

I could live on seafood though. Although that can be quite brutal on the pocketbook! Crab legs are my fav

[Scott Campbell]

I'm suprised to see nobody has said Tuna.

Ahi is a kind of tuna.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Shit, I just went to Taco Bell and spent $9.27.

Do you know how much food you can buy at Taco Bell for $9.27? About a ton. I threw half of it out - fuck the starving children. What a disgusting scene. Somebody send help.

[the_idle_threat]

Q: Don't you know there are starving children in Africa?

A: Yes, and they are welcome to these leftovers if they can come and get it.

[Rastak]

Re: Packer Rats Lose the Pudge Challenge

I am about 30 pounds overweight. I need to lose this weight for the sake of my health and own desire to do so. I am going to keep a blog in here with what I eat every day, and the exercises that I do. I challenge everyone out there with a little pudge to lose to make themselves feel better and do what it takes to improve their health and to keep a record of what they do themselves. I want to lose 20 pounds by my August 27th.

In order to accomplish this, I am going to do the following things:
1. Bike to and from work each day (7 miles each way)
2. Cut out red meats temporarily and focus on Whey powder, veggies, fruits and fish oil.
3. Take a nice relaxing walk everyday at lunch instead of eating immense amount of fast food for lunch daily.
4. Plan out everything I am going to eat in advance.
5. Play tennis for an hour each night
6. Weight lift each night for 30 minutes

Tomorrow, my day is looking like this:
Bike to work
8-12 work
12-1 walk around outside on grass
1-4 work
4-4:45 bike home
5:15-end of match best of 3 set tennis match
7-8 Lift

What's your plan?

I dropped 80 pounds 3 years ago. 250 --> 170.

Low carb, work out. That's all you have to do. 50 carbs or less a day and work out 1/2 hour to 1 hour a day. Lift weights, do cardio. Low carb, work out, low carb work out....adios 30 pounds.

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I have been sticking to my plan very well and eating pretty healthy. I cut myself a little slack on the weekend because I have reached the stage where I stop craving ridiculously greasy or sugary foods and have accepted that I am eating lean, low GI foods.

My pants are feeling significantly looser today than they were last week. That is a good sign.

Tomorrow I am going to eat the following foods and do the following activity:

7am - Bike to work
8am - arrive, tukey sandwich, slice of cheddar on whole grain wheat bread with double fiber, maybe some lettuce and tomato if I can scrounge some up
12pm - jog/walk 2 miles at lunch
1pm - apple, banana, orange
4pm - bike home
6pm - lift
7:30 - 1/4 pound hamburger grilled and squeeze the extra oil out on a bun with pickels and ketchup
11 - sleep

Tomorrow is a big time fitness day, so here is hoping I have the energy and keep myself focused to get it done and get it done right.

Ras, I cannot go totally low carb because I would rip my eyes out. I am definitely eating fewer carbs and smarter carbs which I am hoping will work for me.

This weekend when staying with the GF I found a few creative ways in which we can exercise, so that is always a plus!!

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Ras, btw, I forgot to say congrats, that is an impressive change!!

Same goes for everyone else who is making the effort out there. All it takes it commitment and smart choices!!

[Deputy Nutz]

I ate a bowl of oatmeal this morning. It wasn't very good

[Harlan Huckleby]

All it takes it commitment and smart choices!!

Horse hockey. People are wired very differently. Some are more strongly driven to food than others. Somebody who is very heavy, and has been that way since they were a toddler, has a HUGE psychological challenge to change the patterns that are burned deeply into their brains. The success rate for people permanetly changing their body types has got to be about 2% or less. Why else would some people resort to something as drastic as gastric bypasses surgery?

I'm not criticizing your experience or encouragement! Just offering a reality check, people are very different. Winston Churchhill had the self-discipline to sit down and write an encylopedia length "History of the British People." Yet he couldn't resist a pastry to save his soul.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I am finding some success in changing my eating habits through a process called "mindfulness". It is a practice that comes from Buddhism.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399523820/sr=1-1/qid=1153839812/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-4204114-6130312

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1572243503/ref=pd_sim_b_1/104-4204114-6130312

Anyway, it really comes down to being more self-aware, and more observant and "in the moment." It is helpful for changing all sorts of behavior, and especially for dealing with stress. It involves some daily meditation. It is an effort to stop running on "auto pilot", take some control of yourself and enjoy life more. It's good stuff.