I ran acroos this funny entry commenting on how Cookie Monster from Sesame Street now has a song that says “Cookies are a sometimes food“. What else does the Cookie Monster eat?? Ummm… this makes me sad. I’m going to watch Paula Deen cook some more now.

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
— Confucius
To paraphrase, I need to make some goals, however small. My goal for April will be to check out all the gyms with reasonable distance of my place, and get the monthly prices, as well as what facilities are […]

I ran across MyFoodDiary.com this weekend while trying to find out the nutritional facts online on Twinkies. The site is exactly the title, a food diary. It helps you track your caloric intake per day, and the calories you burn each day. Unfortunately, there is no free trial, it costs a flat […]

I haven’t gotten the chance to sit down and set down any concrete goals and plans to reach those goals, which I know I should, but in the meantime my wife and I have started to take a nice long 30-60 minute walk around our neighborhood every evening.
It’s amazing the things that you miss when […]

Apparently, Twinkies are 75 years old and Americans eat 500 million of them a year. Must. Outlive. Twinkies.

Sorry for the lack of updates, I spent the last week or so at DisneyWorld and visiting my parents. Although I was hoping that this would mean a lot of walking (and it did), this also meant eating out 3 meals a day. at DisneyWorld. My breakfast was either something with eggs […]

Eating while travelling tends to involve lots of oil, fat, sugar, sodium, and preservatives. But there are a couple of things that you can do to minimize the effects of eating on the go. I found some of these tips in an in-flight magazine, I forget the name…
1) Don’t skip breakfast, but don’t eat […]

I woke up this morning, as usual, groggy and un-caffeinated. I brush my teeth, stumble into the kitchen, and like a reflex, pour myself a bowl of Fruit Loops. Gahh! At least I’ve recently switched to skim milk, but still. A 1 cup serving of fruit loops has 120 calories, but […]

What exactly is healthy? Or more exactly, what are ways to easily quantify health? Obviously, we have weight. And we have BMI from my previous post. But that still leaves out accurate fat/muscle percentage. And Cholesterol. But to accurately test these requires full submersion in water, or a blood […]

First, a health status update to establish a baseline. I won’t scare the kiddies by putting up hi-res pictures, I think these are a good size.
Weight: 213 lb
BMI: 27.3
Blood Pressure: 132/82

According to the http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/calc-bmi.htm (CDC), with my BMI I am “overweight”. According to the American Heart Assocation (AHA), my blood pressure rates as […]