iChan: Flourish in this 39th Best... Around... Round

Yesterday's Results The scale reads: 145 lbs. Goal: 137 lbs. The stupid Wal*mart pedometer reads: 3375 steps, 0.852 mi., 140 calories (Lies again - the pedometer reset with my notice) Other aerobic activities: Snoring :( My ma has one. My future mother-in-law has one. According to one website, "Neoprene belt helps shed inches and fat around the waist. Lose weight naturally around the waistline." So far, no offense to them, I haven't seen it work for either one of them. I honestly never worn belts. Even at a slimmer physique, I didn't care or need to wear belts. To this day, I love wearing baggy jeans, but I never sag. My hope is even if I lose weight, I wouldn't need to go purchasing new baggy jeans. What fitness accessories can help (I do know there are no one-stop-cure-alls out there) lose the weight "naturally?" So far I have ankle weights and small weighted gloves.

Yesterday's Results The scale reads: 147 (It was a digital scale today, yay! Oh my goodness, I gained weight, boo!) Goal: 137 lbs. The stupid Wal*mart pedometer reads: 10304 steps, 2.602 mi., 427.5 calories (That's more like it) Other aerobic activities: Climbed some more flights of stairs at the Regatta (but I don't feel like it's enough) I think I have the wrong attitude towards this whole endeavor. I think I subconsciously believe that through some mystical, magical way I can shed the weight without conscious effort. I believe I can easily summon the motivation to eat right and be physically active. Today proved the last statement wrong. I thought I can do portion control at Little Napoli's brunch buffet. Yeah, the word "buffet" should have raised 4 alarms of panic. I gorged on an omelet, breakfast standards (sausage, pancake, eggs, etc.), and 1 1/2 16-oz cups of OJ. Afterward, I walked around the 99 Cents Only Store and Dollar Tree in hop...

Yesterday's Results The scale reads: 145 lbs.??? This analog scale is probably off from 3-5 lbs. (I guess I have to put a +/- 3 tolerance level on these readings?) Goal: 137 lbs. The stupid Wal*mart pedometer reads: 3065 steps, 0.773 mi., 127.1 calories (LIES! How could almost an hour's worth of walking yield only these numbers?) Other aerobic activities: Power walking across Johnson Space Center to get to furthest parking lot in a 1/2" heels Climbed a couple flights of stairs My chopsticks skills are going downhill. Catching a noodle or a single grain of rice would be an accomplishment already. No, I wasn't using one of those waxy, plastic ones. I'm even talking about those wooden or bamboo ones. No go. I guess it's a good thing? It's like a mini exercise of patience and dexterity. I guess it's a struggle to exercise the forearms? I guess using chopsticks is a vehicle for portion control - as long as I don't use it as a tool for shovelin...

Oh, Mr. Miyagi, you and your crane technique. I'll learn how to stand, all right. And I'll definitely fly my own air/spacecraft during some point in my career. Even though I haven't really watched "The Karate Kid" all the way through, I'll draw some inspiration from the movie and its sequel to be the best... around... and drop down to my high school weight. I'm in a friendly competition with my mom and cousins (again) to see who can lose the most weight by August 2011. A former co-worker back at my first paid job (in the UCSD days) would go around cubicle to cubicle, declaring, "You're the best!" Please join me in my (mis)adventures to help me reaffirm that "You're the best!" in shedding the weight.