Sugar on my tongue tongue, yippy yippy yum yum

Well today is a good day kind of. I made the mistake of getting hotter peppers and my stomach has been in pain all day. Killed my work out. Oh well. I do have some good news for me.

Weight Loss
Well I started to be serious about my diet just about a month ago. I will explain it more later. In the first four weeks I lost some inches on my body and I was kind of happy that I lost 5 pounds. My goal was 6 since I am trying to lose about 1.5 pounds a week. Well being 297 still wasn't anything to scoff at because I weighed less and I felt I was a pretty solid 297. My weight rarely got over 299 when I drank a little to much or ate a little too much. Sunday I was kind of bad. I ate 20 hot wings and an omlete which was very ogod and weighed in about 297.8 on monday. Not bad for a bad weekend. I was happy. Well this morning I weighed in at 295.4. I was very happy about this. Especially since my goal for saturday was 295.5. Which means I am now closer to my original goal which would of been 294.5. Hopefully I can make that by saturday.

My "Diet"
I have been meaning to do this for about a month now. Well just over a month ago I began to read this horribly written, really long book called. Ultimate Diet Secrets by Dr. Ellis. Even though he is very boastful and repeats himself over and over and over and over again, really should of listened to his editors about cutting down the pages. The book is amazing. One thing the book has is passion and knowledge. More studies then you can shake a stick at. If you like to have studies and science describe why you should eat and work out. If you like having a guy who really struggled with his weight and tried everything. He was his greatest experiment. Then this is the book for you. I highly recommend reading it. I will give you the gist of it.

1. The law of thermodynamics. Basically your body can only burn the energy you put into it. If you eat 3000 calories and your body burns 3000 calories you will not lose a pound. Your body does not create energy out of nothing. Plus he explains that thin people do not waste calories.

2. Fat does not make you fat. The correlation between high cholestorol diets and fat diets and heart disease and high cholesterol doesn't really exist. The numbers have been fudged. Especially in Japan where it is honorable to die of a brain anerism. Which really skewed the data. Plus another way data is skewed is this thing called risk factor. Even with the Japanese skewed data, if your doctor told you that if you eat a lot of fat and cholesterol your chances of dieing of a heart attack increase about .65 percent. I believe you would laugh at your doctor and eat a burger. However if your doctor told you that you were 14 times more likely to have a heart attack, you will be kind of scared.

3. This really got me thinking about fats. (he also mentions) that we live in a soceity that eats less fat then it has ever done before and we are fatter than ever. You would think heart disease would go down, however it hasn't. You would think fat would go down, however it hasn't. Well think about why we are fat. People are fat because of the fact that the body eats more calories than it needs. Instead of getting rid of these calories the body stores them as fat. The body uses the calories as energy. So that makes fat stored energy. When I eat fat it doesn't turn directly into fat. It is broken down so I can use it as energy. It is when I eat too much fat that that energy is turned back into fat.

4. Carbs turn into fat. When you eat carbs they are turned into fat and then your body uses them as energy. When you eat protien your body uses that to rebuild muscles. When you eat fat your body uses them as energy. In fact fat is the prefered energy for your muscles. Which is one of the reasons that a high fat high carb diet is bad for you. While your body is converting the carbs into fat, the fat remains in your body and eventually turn into fats as well. He explains it MUCH better. Which explains why you can eat something like pizza and still feel really hungry. Also explains why you are hungry after chinese food.

5. He also explains why the worst type of diet is high in carbs and high in fats. Which is also one of the main problems with most studies on high fat diets is because most of the studies do not restrict carbs. He also explains why a high carb diet low fat diet is not really good for losing weight when you use high density calorie carb food. Like eating two candy bars. It is really easy to eat a third and that is like 900 calories. He explains that if you don't want to do the high fat diet that you should eat low density carb food.

6. He explains why a lot of Atkins people fail. According to him Atkins works because it is hard to eat a lot of calories when you are eating just fats and protien. Which is true. Try eating 10 candy bars, try eating 10 chicken breasts. Candy bars would be easier if it wasn't for the sick feeling(I know i hate nutty bars all day once.) In fact the candy bars would probably have at least 1000 more calories than the chicken breasts and the 10 chicken breasts would actually not be 2000 calories combined. However two big reasons why it fails. It is HARD to restrict yourself that many carbs at once. Ellis stresses moderation and slowly cutting carbs. That makes it easier on the body and yourself. Another reason is because the people get to the point where their body is burning the amount of calories that they are eating. So they reach the plateau. Basically which is why when you reach a plateau it is good to check how many calories you are burning and how many you are eating and change it so you are doing less.

7. I could write a lot. It had a lot of great information. Another thing he talks about is why starvation diets fail and are really bad for you. Basically starvation diets put your body in a state of starvation. This does a few things. Number one it slows down your metabolism. Who wants that. Another thing it does is it makes your mind mind want to return to its original weight. It thinks something horrible has happened and you are not getting enough food. Eventually you will get depressed and put the weight back on. Because your body wants to. Your body also has two weight memories. Your lean body mass and your fat mass. It wants both of them back. So basically as you are gaining the weight back, you return to your fat mass quicker. However it still wants to increase your lean body mass, so that means more food than you burn so you gain more fat. Which is why you gain more FAT when you starve yourself. I know I have experienced this.

Well I think I posted enough on this guys book without him wanting to sue me. I really enjoyed it and a lot of it made a lot of sense in my life. Also remember that trans fats are still bad for you. I used to love margerine and that could be why I die an early death if I do. So I highly sugguest paying the 80 bucks for the book and reading it. I would suggest getting the light version with all the facts if you are male. If you are female i think you would get a lot out of reading the guys struggle and his life.

Miami Dolphins
Miami Dolphins have made some moves. First they signed a cornerback I never heard of but should fit Saban's system. Then they signed LJ Shelton, which should really help their line. Then they signed Sedrick Hodge who is a big fast guy who if he lives up to his big fastness could be huge. Then they traded for a little known quarterback named Daunte Culpepper. Yes DAUNTE CULPEPPER. If his knee heals, Miami is a superbowl threat next year. Holy crap I can't believe they pulled that off only for a second round pick.

Random Thought of the day
Don't eat little peppers.