Healthy Lifestyle update

I have gotten a few emails about my status and the expected "what are you doing?" questions.

By status or stats, I have lost 26lbs in 58 days. Probably more because I'm fairly sure I was over 315lbs. I feel better and realize that as good as that is stats wise, I still have a long way to go to be optimum. As of Monday, I weighed 290.5lbs.

My goal is to wear a red Speedo to the Tech-SMU game in September and look dead sexy. Hey, if you got it, flaunt it!

What am I doing?

I exercise on a Cybex elliptical trainer. For those that do not know, it is a machine at my gym that makes me feel as though I'm running up stairs, but it isn't a stair climber. I am able to stay at a high exertion rate for 40 minutes now. It burns over 600 calories in that time. I do this 5 times a week.

I also lift weights 6 days a week. 2 days upper body, 2 days "core" or mid section, 2 days lower body. 3 days a week I punch a heavy bag and do speed punching drills for about 15 minutes. The boxing really takes it out of me. I rest on the day I bowl in my league.

I am probably burning close or over 1000 calories a day by exercise.

What do I eat and drink?

Well let's just start by listing what I have completely cut out:

Soft Drinks
Chinese buffets
Fast food with exception of tacos once a week

Here is what I eat and drink every day:

1 Liter of Organic Green Tea
3 cups of coffee
over 100oz. of reverse osmosis bottled water
1 glass of Cabernet
6oz of Organic Orange Juice
1.5 teaspoons of powdered wheat grass
2 tablets of purified omega-3

Breakfast

5 days is Kashi 7 grain cereal with %2 Organic milk.
2 days 3 organic eggs

Lunch

Organic Chicken breast tenderloin meat 4oz serving
Half an avocado
tomato

Dinner

Salmon steak-6 oz
Asparagus or Broccoli or Spinach
Hummus or Red-Green Bell Pepper


Once a week I eat a meal of whatever I want. This week I had Shepard's Pie at an Irish pub. I also eat organic chips and salsa on Sundays. I only drink beer on Friday's at the bowling center, although I did have 2 Guinness with the Pie.

Like I stated, I still have a long way to go to get optimum, but still even further in making this lifestyle work for more than just a short period of time. The hardest part for me is getting up in the morning and eating something first thing. Sometimes I just do not want to, or forget to, and it ends up making me hungry and sluggish for the rest of the afternoon and evening. If I do eat early, I'm great.

I also have completely gone organic in everything as far as hygiene and cleanliness. Soap, Shampoo, shaving cream, toothpaste, deoderant etc. I have yet to make the switch to organic in laundry and dish soap, but I'm good where I am at.