The last few years I’ve tried just about every Lean Cuisine and Weight Watchers frozen meals the local supermarket had to offer. Some of them were pretty tasty, and others, not so much. There are times when I’ll try one and it’s really bad. I’m talking about veggies that don’t taste like their fresh counterparts, meat that I can’t quite put in any of the major categories, and bread that comes out tasting more like styrofoam.

So I ate the 300–400 calorie meal. Yes, there was food. Yes, there were calories taken in, but they were really bad tasting calories. I just blew a perfectly good meal trying to expand my options. Do you ever get this overwhelming urge to declare a “do over”?

Two things seem to keep me from pulling the trigger on that “do over” meal that puts my total calories at double, if not more:

1. Eating small meals 5–6x a day, the next one is only 3 hrs away.
2. I can punt with fruit, nuts, or if I’m really feeling ripped off, a spoon of peanut butter.

The most effective trick I’ve learned is just getting the taste out of your mouth by brushing your teeth. It works twofold in that you have alien food taste away from your taste buds and you have minty breath to boot.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what conditions led to my putting the weight back on. I guess it’s one part moaning about where I am now, and two parts trying to make sure it doesn’t happen again. The short list was the new job, the travel, and the all-you-can-eat expense account, but I think it started even earlier than that. I’m almost sure of it because I remember being a little uncomfortable in my interview clothes for my current job.

Thinking back, I remember hitting 300 lbs. I felt great and clothes fit that hadn’t in a really long time. I can’t quite pin-point what brought on the backslide, but it’s not hard to guess how it snow-balled. It just takes a couple days to fall back into the old routine. It’s unfair, and it sucks – oh how it sucks – but that’s just how it goes. You would think that if you were doing something for 2 years it’d take a little longer to revert, but it just doesn’t.

Cheating once or twice a week, doing things in moderation, but keeping the routine going is the only way to truly make a lifestyle change.

Hey Reed! Thanks for leaving us a voicemail. You didn’t leave an email, so aside from calling you during dinner time (or worse, sleep!) this was the next best thing.

We’ll be sure to splice your suggestions into our next show. Thanks for listening!

I was looking through some personal blog posts at xinu.org and came across the first mention of Geekfit:

…then I started writing about the new podcast that Jason and I are trying to get off the ground. We decided to call it geekfit.com but we’re still working on the format. For my part I want to talk about how it’s possible to be a geek (read: sedentary lifestyle) and be fit at the same time.

Original story: http://blog.xinu.org/2006/04/05/92/

Starting today I’m going to attempt to post 1 picture each day to our GeekFit Flickr Group. My goal is to post what I’m eating for lunch each day. I’d like to invite you to join in on this as well by uploading a picture of something to our flickr group. It could be your scale showing your current weight, the food you will be eating, something that motivates you to get out an exercise or even your awesome new equipment.

Below is a video showing you one of the ways to go about submitting a photo or video to the GeekFit Flickr Group. Let me know if you have any questions.

I attended PodCampAZ in Phoenix Arizona this weekend. I got to meet a lot of great media makers and had a good time all around. I stayed with my friends Dan and CJ who run the Love Long and Prosper Podcast. Click the links below to see some of the stuff that was captured.

• http://podcampaz.org/
• Pictures on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/320906@N25/pool/
• Pictures I took on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/abstrakone/sets/72157602916647451/
• Viddler Videos: http://www.viddler.com/search/?searchString=podcampaz
• Ustream: http://www.ustream.tv/PodCampAZ
• iJustine: http://www.justin.tv/ijustine
• Jody Gnant: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/jody-gnant-live

GeekFit now has a group on Traineo.com. If you are part of traineo.com please join our Geekfit Group.

http://geekfit.groups.traineo.com/

Steve and Jason at the OC Podcasters Booth

Steve with Keith and the Girl

Special thanks to Traineo.com for the merch and giveaways we had for our visitors.

Jason was at the September OC Podcasters meetup and Craig from Behind the Scenes Podcast was there to do some quick interviews of everyone. He asked everyone about the upcoming Expo and what to expect and what their previous experiences were like last year.

Jason can be heard at timecode 13:50, our good fitness friend Russ from FatGuyRadio can be heard before him at timecode 13:40. Scott Stys from This Married Life, The Curbside Investigator, and The Open Window was also at the meeting, He can be heard at timecode 17:30 “oh my goodness!”.

We had a good turnout that meeting, its a bit loud because we meet up at the Fox Sports Grill in Irvine and our tables were adjacent to the bar area.

Check out the episode, and if you haven’t heard Craig’s podcast before please check it out on itunes.

I didn’t want to freak anyone out by having this show up in your podcatchers so if you want to here the interviews you can download the audio from here:

http://www.godcast.org/mp3/bts129.mp3