My Health Week in Review #1 |
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If you’re a reader of Lazy Man and Money, you’ll note that I review my financial week on Friday. This is an attempt to do the same for my health. Each week you can look forward to at least three health metrics, a weigh-in, a grade on my exercise, and a grade on my diet.
- I just weighed myself and it came up with 170lbs. My Tanita scale reads 20.0% body fat. My Omron handheld fat analyzer reads 15%. I’m going to average those two and say it’s 170lbs, 17.5%. It’s not bad, but it’s not 160, 12%, where I was a few years back
- I get an D- in exercise this week. I’d give myself an F, but I did a little walking after lunch at work. In general, my exercise work ethic is just a disaster. Ironically, it might be the fact that I’m trying to maintain two blogs. Or perhaps it’s just that I’m a mouse potato. Yes, they had to add a word to the dictionary specifically for me.
- I get a C for diet this week. It was far perfect. On Saturday, I had that prime rib and Caesar salad. On Wednesday, Energi Gal and I had takeout pizza and ice cream. One time at work, I went through a larger than snack size bag of Cheetos. On the other hand, I few times at work, I grabbed a banana. I’ve also been choosing healthier lunches, such as turkey bacon-lettuce-tomato-avocado sandwiches over cheese burgers.
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February 16th, 2007 at 9:54 am
Here are tips that I learned while I was playing basketball in college (well I am now back in college again) and for daily use. I am a very dedicated bodybuilder and fitness freak so maybe I have some qualification
1. Plan your meals for the week and buy the foods necessary for making them.
2. Buy in bulk (ie. bag of chicken breasts) and make them all in one night so you can have it in all your meals. (ie. chicken in salad, chicken sandwiches, chicken in veggies etc.)
3. Buy a magazine like Men’s Fitness and follow one of their meal plans. Or go to bodybuilding.com and look at their meal plans. Much easier to be told what to eat than figure out what you should eat. This has helped me eliminate random snacking, know what kind of fat/protein/carb intake I get, calories, etc.
4. Stick to this advise: If you want to lose weight, 80% of it is your diet, 20% is how you work out.
February 19th, 2007 at 6:34 am
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