Weight loss update

A good friend of mine named Jared Hines writes a blog that some of you might read as well, and his blog is pretty popular.  He started blogging after mine but his posts get three to four times more readers than my post do.  I'm not saying blogging is a competition but between me and Jared I feel it is.  So why does he get so many more readers than myself you may be asking yourself. I think that all the time and there are two main reasons I came up with.  One, he has more friends than I do, which makes sense because he is pretty popular.  This then leads to a wider audience of people to read his blog and therefore get more hits.  Or two, people really like his weight loss updates he gives in his blog because of how successful he has been. He has been losing a lot of weight over the last couple months and has been getting a lot of positive feedback.  Compared to my blogs which are mostly what kind of woman I want to sleep with.  Now I can't make more friends over night so I am going to say his blogs are more popular because of the weight loss updates.  One thing I have learned in life is imitation is the biggest form of flattery so I hope Jared doesn't mind me using his blog ideas to grow my readership.  Below I have listed five simple things I do in my every day life to help with my own weight loss, and in turn hope to maybe help with yours.

1. Eat the right foods- They say you shouldn't eat fast food and the more organic foods the better.  Fruits and vegetables are also good for you to eat as well as a good variety from all the food pyramids in general.  I don't really like the taste of foods that are good for you so for example if I eat vegetables I will dip them in ranch, sure the ranch isn't good for you but the vegetables off set that. When eating fruit you can pour sugar on your items to make them more sweet.  Again the sugar isn't very good for your body but it's offset by the healthiness of the fruit.  So I think when it comes to eating its not the bad foods you eat but how you can sneak healthy foods in your diet to even the field.

2. Have the right workout-  In the nice weather season months I enjoy to run around the lake by my place but that is a little harder to do in the winter.  The apartment complex I have does have a nice workout gym opened 24/7 but with that you need to worry about using all the equipment right.  For the best workout plan I like use is to watch sports.  Watching sports and being passionate about sports allows you to raise your heart rate and work up a sweat, all things you want to have occur while working out.  So even though it's not working out, I feel watching sports is almost as good.

3. Weigh in at the right time-  When you weigh yourself to see how much weight you have lost its key at when you do it.  In the morning you tend to weigh the least because you haven't had anything to eat for at least eight hours and no recent meals in your body.  I also like to weight myself after a nice poop in the morning to trim off a little more of your weight.

4. Take medication- There are a ton of diet supplements that claim they work and you will just shed the pounds but I don't believe in those.  Instead the medication I believe in his laughter.  You hear a lot of people always say laughter is the best medicine so when thinking about losing weight I always try to keep an open mind and make fun of myself. When I'm eating a big bowl of ice cream I will say, "Hey fatty do you really need to eat all that." This reminds myself I don't want to be over weight, however be careful if you are talking to yourself and calling yourself fatty if out in public.  One time I told myself this and lady next to me glared at me and got up, however in my defense she probably didn't need to finish the whole pizza even though I wasn't talking to her.

5.  Diet in groups- Studies show when companies have competitions with weight loss that a lot of people involved will lose a lot of weight.  This seems all fine and dandy but I think a better way is not to have a competition but just always bring in doughnuts and candy to share at your workplace for others to eat.  If you can be disciplined enough and not eat it yourself but your coworkers do start to eat it then you will begin to look skinny by comparison.

Running, just plain running.

Who runs? I mean there are actually people out there that just run for the heck of it. For the longest time I thought the only times people ran was away from people that were trying to attack them.  The more I looked into I found out running on a regular basis could actually be good for you.  A regular at Broadway the other day said she started using an app called couch to 5k. Its an app you use that each day that gets you to run more and more every day by increasing the intervals.

The biggest problem I have and I'm sure a lot of people do is staying committed to working out or having a diet.  It's easy to start working out but the hard part is keeping it up.  That's when I decided if I blogged about my status it would be a lot harder to quit.  This is why I waited a little bit before I first posted this blog just to make sure I liked the app and didn't quit after a day or two.  I have also noticed the times I do work out on a more consistent basis I tend to also start eating better. I don't think it's a coincidence that these two events go hand in hand.  So I figured if I could begin running on a more regular time frame I would begin to eat better.

So about the workout and the app that I think is one of the best free apps I have ever used. On day one it was a 30 minute workout which started with a five minute warm-up.  I then began to run for 60 seconds and then walk for 90 seconds.  They had me doing this eight times and then I had a five minute cool down. After week one I was running for 90 seconds and walking for two minutes six times. I am now about to begin week three which has me running for three minute intervals and then walking for a minute.  It probably still doesn't seem like much but after a couple weeks I have already noticed a huge change in my stamina. The only problem I worry about is the weather and how its only going to get colder but as long it doesn't snow too much before Thanksgiving I should be able to go ahead with my 5k, which I should be able to according to this run on Thanksgiving.  Worst case scenario with the weather is I do have an indoor workout facility with treadmills so if the weather gets worse I can use that but I do really like to run around the lake I live across the street.  Below I have posted a link to the app if anyone is interested in joining me in the process, who knows maybe this time next year we will be running marathons?

http://www.active.com/mobile/c25k?force_a2=y
 

Exercise cause YOLO

A couple days ago I decided I wanted to get in better shape again.  At the start of the year I tried to get in shape and it didn't work out very well, so giving it another go.  I need to be disciplined when coming to getting in better shape so maybe my blogging about it I will force myself to do it.  You won't care about my routine and my blog won't all of a sudden be about working out but figure if I write about it from time to time I will keep up my routine.  I will be mostly working out and change my diet a little but I can't give up all bad foods for me.  I mean I am eating Chipolte currently as I am writing this.

A couple days ago I started running around the lake by my place.  Every day  I would pick a landmark and run until there and then next day I would pick a spot a little bit farther.  This strategy was working well at getting my stamina up until there was a wrench thrown into my plans this morning.  I was just about to get to my daily landmark when an attractive woman came along from another path and was running about 50 yards in front of me.  I decided to follow her a little bit figuring she might know a good place to run to.  I also thought that if I would catch up with her maybe we could have a small chat.  This did not work out since as I was getting closer to her she would speed up and she could probably hear my heavy breathing.  I realized quickly that she was also in much better shape then I was.  After about 10 minutes of "chasing" her I was now ready to pass out and decided to stop running and let her get away.  I never really did get a good look at her face so I will just assume she was ugly.

Don't really have much else to post as apparently blogging about running even takes a lot of energy out of me.  I guess from time to time I will post how I am doing and hopefully if it works it could be helpful advice to others.  Have a great day and I'll see you later.

NFL mock 2012

Of all the blogs I have written this one will have the smallest readership.  I am okay with this though because it's my blog and I get to write about whatever I want.  I am writing about the draft because it's my favorite day of the year and I am a huge rube.  Every year me and my buddies act like complete rubes and have a contest with our created mock drafts and it's a good time had by all.  So any of you that are interested I figured I would post my mock on here for your enjoyment.

1	Indy	Luck	QB	Stanford
2	Was	Griffith III	QB	Baylor
3	Min	Kalil	OT	USC
4	Cle	Richardson	HB	Bama
5	TB	Claiborne	CB	LSU
6	Stl	Blackmon	WR	OKST
7	Jax	Ingram	DE	SC
8	Mia	Tannehill	QB	TexasAM
9	Car	Cox	DT	Miss St
10	Buf	Reiff	OT	Iowa
11	KC	Kuechly	LB	BC
12	Sea	Coples	DE	UNC
13	Ari	Floyd	WR	ND
14	Dal	Barron	S	Bama
15	Phi	Brockers	DT	LSU
16	NYJ	Upshaw	DE	Bama
17	Cin	Gilmore	CB	SC
18	SD	DeCasto	OG	Stanford
19	Chi	Jones	DE	Cuse
20	Ten	Kirkpatrick	CB	Bama
21	Cin	Perry	DE	USC
22	Cle	Jenkins	CB	N. Bama
23	Det	Glenn	OT	Georgia
24	Pit	Poe	DT	Memphis
25	Den	Worthy	DT	Mich St
26	Hou	Hill	WR	GT
27	NE	McCellin	LB	Boise St
28	GB	Mercelius	DE	Ill
29	Bal	Hightower	LB	Bama
30	SF	Randle	WR	LSU
31	NE	Smith	S	ND
32	NYG	Adams	OT	OSU

Stadium Fatigue

Well I'm back and at this for the second time.  I know a lot of you probably thought well that was nice of Jeff to write a blog and then give up on it after one post.  Well you were wrong, I just needed some time is all to get some new fresh ideas.  Over this past week and a half I kept thinking what exactly I wanted my blog to be about.  I know in my first one I said it would be humor, pop culture, and sports kinda all tied together.  I didn't want it to come off as too much of my soap box however.  I want to be informative and fun and something look forward to reading.  At first I was going to lay out what I would talk about but in the end I think what works best is just unfiltered Jeff.  That's really what people want and it's where I feel I'm at my best.  Some people after my first blog told me that my blog had too many run on sentences and wasn't proof read very well.  Well to those people I say, "Shut up Blake and Brett what do you know about writing a blog?"  In  time I will get a little better writing these blogs but for now it will just be a little random and some scattered thoughts.

What I really wanted to touch on in this blog and what got me in the mood to write another one was the stadium talk.  Don't get me wrong, I have more stadium fatigue then anyone.  I could go on for pages about how you can finance it and how politics is dumb because nothing truly ever gets done.  But you don't need to hear my political views.  I just don't understand why people can't admit that stadiums make money, period.  Building a new stadium would create jobs to build it and also the thousand of jobs it provides by having pro teams tied to it.  The Vikings need people to run their organization and that means jobs locally then if the team was in LA.  A new stadium would also bring a Final four, and a Superbowl to the Twin Cities.  Do you know how much extra revenue that provides to the city alone?  Well I don't have an exact number but I can tell you it's a lot.  I don't like the argument of well don't raise taxes or have the public pay for it because it's not my stadium.  To that I say have some common sense people.  As I said earlier it brings in money to the state and if you worked the budget around I'm pretty sure there was already money laying around to pay for it.  This isn't going to turn into a blog about fiscal responsibility, that's for another day.  I still don't understand why a State run casino never gets built and brings in revenue that way.  Well I do, it's because the Tribes are that powerful but how lame is that.  Electronic pull tabs are a stupid idea and not really one I would consider as expanding gambling but hey whatever helps you sleep at night.

That really is more then anyone cares to know about my stadium talk as I'm sure you are all as fatigued as I am.  Like I said I really could go on for hours about how stupid it is common sense doesn't win out more but I don't want this to be too political.  I don't really have too much else to add, I really wanted to just stand on my stadium soap box for a minute.  I do want to say thank you for everyone that has been there for me and my Bway family this last week as we lost one of our own Megan Sample.  She has been on my mind everyday since last week and I appreciate all the thoughts and prayers for her friends and family.  I figure since these blogs are my personal thoughts I would end with something that's been so much on my mind.  Thanks for reading and I'm sure you will hear from me in a month or two when I want to go on some other random tangent.  As always promised I will leave you with the image of the blog.