We’ve all had this problem where we’re trying to do real good on our diets or healthy living choices yet things around us get in our way and try to make us fail. This photo on failblog captures that exact thing in just one picture.

What keeps you going? What helps you block out the negative indulgences around you? Leave a comment and let us know.

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• Our twitter accomplishment (and confession box) bot, @geekfit read more about it in our previous post.
• BarcampLA and the battle of the bots.
• Steve’s podcast playlist.
• Jason talks about listening to his ipod in the car, to and from workouts.
• Quick Review: DLO Transdock Direct quick review.
• Mono podcasts vs stereo.
• Indoor swimming in cold weather.
• Steve’s shoulder and recovery.
• Review: Healthy Choice - Fresh Mixers.
  • Steve explains the problems with the box top instructions.
  • Jason bashes Steve not RTFM correctly.
• Steve’s co-worker Carl Davis, and his response to us mentioning him.
• Garmin Forerunner 305
• trail.motionbased.com that works with Garmin devices, doesn’t work well on macs with firefox though.
• iPhone apps: iMapmyrun, Weightbot.
• Steve talks about Gymanee and the services they provide. Steve’s Profile, Jason’s Profile.
  • We compare Sparkpeople.com & Traineo.com to Gymanee.com.
  • Steve’s shirtless images on Gymanee.
  • Gymanee and the iPhone, works great. Son Of Krypton teaches Steve about the iPhone and memory.
• CleanHealthyLiving.com
• GeekThug.com

Podcasts Mentioned:

• For Whatever Reason
• The Life of SpaGuysWife
• Fat Guy Radio
• Podrunner

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Today we’re announcing a new feature to GeekFit, @geekfit the twitter bot. “Twitter? What’s twitter?” you say, well its a way of telling the world what your doing in 140 charecters or less. What Steve and I are doing with @geekfit - the twitter bot is sending a twitter post on our own accounts @jasontucker & @mrxinu including “#geekfit” (sans quotes) somewhere in the “tweet”. The @geekfit bot is constantly scanning for #geekfit in its friends tweets and then collecting them. Every 30 minutes he’ll “retweet” or repost all the collected tweets so his friends can see them. Mind you his friends are our listeners, people like you. So now all of our listeners can see each others tweets geekfit related tweets even if they aren’t friends… yet.

So what does this do for you? Well, Steve and I are tweeting about all the achievements we’re doing in health and fitness. Sometimes its a picture of what were eating, or a status update on our weight change. It really could be anything you want to share with the world. For instance I could say:

“Went for a walk in the park at lunch, 2.5miles #geekfit”

or something like

“Wow, this sandwich is great, I gotta talk about it on the next #geekfit podcast.”

The goal for this is that people can see what others are doing in the GeekFit community and can comment on other peoples actions. We call these pats on the back. We’re hoping if someone in the community tweets about something related to health and fitness and puts #geekfit in the tweet on twitter then someone will comment on that persons accomplishment.

So what do you do now? First get a twitter account by going to http://twitter.com if you already have one Go follow geekfit on twitter then make your first posting using the #geekfit tag.

Below are what some of the people have said including #geekfit in their twitter posts:

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• Steve makes hamburger meat of his rotator cuff.
• Our Natural Life Podcast.
• Mastering the crock pot for slow cooking.
• Weightbot iPhone App $1.99 - What a great looking application for something so simple.
• Audio Recorder for the iPhone.
• Jason’s new job.
• Steve mentioned Remember The Milk for remembering various tasks via email and SMS.
• Addon for google reader for RTM cow icon.
• Jason’s weight… gain
• Stress Eating
• Steve’s co-worker and his dramatic weight loss
• PodRunner
• Steve’s co-worker spreads the work of Geekfit
• Mapmywalk.com Mapmyrun.com an the new iPhone app called iMapMyRun
• Another co-worker and his tips on using Kashi TLC bars and Detour Bars as a breakfast replacement.
• Jason asks Steve if he would eat Kashi bars or Detour bars purchased from ebay. Would you?
• Jason’s dealing with work provided breakfast 2 times a week.
• Posting pictures to flickr of food we’re eating. Should we post them on geekfit?

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Jason and I are going to take the opportunity this week while he’s home to knock out a couple shows. Stay tuned!

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Update on my current health and eating habits

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Thanks to JrMint for answering the call to talk about his weightloss routine. He writes about his workout routine in his latest article:

I think a lot of people don’t realize that a lot of benefit in losing weight and working out comes from not being repetitive.

Original Article

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GeekFit was interviewed in Forbes Magazine today, in an article centered around the health of Apple’s Steve Jobs. In the piece, GeekFit’s Steve Klassen and Jason Tucker discuss everything from how being a geek affects eating patterns to how the iPhone can help. Read the full Forbes article at this link: http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/07/24/steve-jobs-diet-tech-personal-cx_bc_0724jobs.html

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We hadn’t heard from Minty in a while due to his lack of journal updates but yesterday he finally put pen to virtual paper. Even having been down with a surgery for a time he’s back at the gym and continuing to shed the pounds. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m inspired. Here’s an excerpt from his McBlog:

I am happy to say I hit 193.8 pounds today, thats 30 pounds of weight loss in about 7 weeks. If I hadn’t missed those 2.5 or so weeks of workouts I’m confident I’d have dropped to 190 or lower, but thats okay, just gotta stay ramped up.

Its hard to miss multiple days in a row and keep motivated. My wife hit an amazing 125 today and is still working with her trainer, she looks and feels great.

Amazing job, man. You and your wife are tearing it up in a big way. Keep it up!

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JrMint’s update says it all. He is now part of the sub-200 club. Way to go!

198.6 (finally broke 200!) and 21.8% body fat. Bitchin.

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I knew that once I stopped going out to eat when I travel that there was going to be trade offs. The up side: I’d have time to hit the gym, and I’d be eating store bought food. The down side: nearly total lack of social interaction.

My routine so far for this trip:

• wake up at 6am
• get ready for work
• have breakfast in the room
• work for 8–12 hours
• head directly to the gym
• cardio or weights, alternating days
• back to the hotel & shower
• dress in comfy clothes

At that point it’s 8 or 9pm. I figure I have 2–3 hours of time I could spend filling the gaps. On a “school night” some TV in the room, a video on my laptop, or something else I can turn off when it’s time to sleep is probably a good idea.

What about Friday night through Sunday?

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Yesterday I decided to pick up a pedometer. I was reading through the documentation this morning before attaching it to my bod and noticed it “auto adjusts from walking to running strides.”

My first thought: “only if someone’s chasing me with a large knife.”

I’ll track my steps per day and update again when I’ve gotten some details to talk about. So far I can’t hardly tell I’m wearing the thing.

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In this episode Steve interviews Lori Barnett of Soul Escape, a graduate of Body Mind College with focus in holistic healing, and advanced EFT. We talk about how EFT can be used to eliminate specific cravings, and most importantly, address the underlying emotional currents that got us overweight in the first place.

You can read more about EFT on Lori’s website along with signing up for her newsletter which I would definitely recommend. It’s well put together, informative, and offers some great insight.

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There’s a particularly awesome trainer at my local Ballys. Her physique reminds me of Demi Moore in 1997’s GI Jane. The sum of our interaction since 2005 has been a wave and a smile and the occasional, “are you still using this?” when she’s training someone out on the weight room floor.

Yesterday I was laying on my back doing my ab workout and she walked right over to me.

“Want a tip?” she asked, and walked over to grab one of the half-circle balance platforms and placed it under my feet.

I had been doing leg lifts and touching my heels all the way back to the ground before pulling them back up to my chest. She put the balance platform under my heels and it made a big difference. I wasn’t bouncing when I hit the floor any more and there was a lot more control in the motion.

I thanked her for the tidbit and we got to chatting about my struggle with losing weight, what kinds of things I’d been doing, and of course, the GeekFit Podcast. She was really nice about everything; said she’d noticed how hard I’d been working and that she remembered where I was when I started at Bally years ago.

It was a really nice bit of motivation and one that was perfectly timed with me heading to Chicago for 3 weeks this Sunday. I’m armed with my national gym membership, a reservation at an extended stay, and a determination to return either 6–8 lbs lighter or 1.5 – 2% lower in body fat. It’s going to be awesome.

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Another update from McBlog on JrMint’s transformation. Keep it going!

Today marks the 30th day of my “official” start of my new workout program and my new diet. After weighing and measuring up with my trainer today, I’m totally stoked to say that I’ve lost 18 pounds (down from 220 to 202), my body fat has lowered from 28.8% to 23.2%, I’ve dropped 1.6&Prime off my waist, 1% off my neck and about a 1/2% each off all the other areas (legs, thigh, etc…). Needless to say I’m very happy, and plan on continuing on with things until I reach my first goal weight of 192 and a body fat under 20%. I’ll regroup and set new goals there.

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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.

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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.

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A quick progress update for a friend of ours who recently started the great weight loss journey. He posted this on his blog this morning:

Okay thats the workout update. Weighed in at 210.1 today. Thats down over 10 pounds in 2 weeks, so i’m quite happy. My current goal with my trainer is 192 by mid july. The diet is definitely helping out…I’m on a pretty regular 6 small meals a day and I keep it right at my 33 weight watchers points. I don’t feel hungry all the time and I’m eating stuff that I like so that doesn’t make me grumpy like most peoples diets do. Also doing 64-96oz of water a day. [] I feel better then I have in a long time…..so I guess as long as this doesn’t kill me or I give up I should be doing great in month or so. Here’s to no early cardiac arrest!

We’re sure he’s not alone, so shoot us a message about your updates!

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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!

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This episode Steve is still in an extended stay up near Seattle and Jason is holding it down in southern California as usual. The discussion kind of bounces around (hey ma, look, no script!) but we cover the following.

• Day 3 of the healthy road warrior routine. Steve talks about techniques that he has found useful in dealing with traditional hotels and extended stay hotels. He also explains the differences of the two as well as the pros and cons of each for someone wanting to lose weight.
• Jason carries Jessalyn in the pool. She’s still learning how to swim.
• 90 degree weather can die now, please.
• Water bottles that kill you? We talk about SIGG, Naglene, leaching chemical water bottles, Bisphenol-A and BPA. We also suggest some alternatives to these water bottles including steel bottles.
• Podcast Peers Award Winner Spring 2008 “Best Geek Podcast“

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The company I work for is VERY family friendly and we try to make everyone feel at home here. For the 3 plus years I’ve worked here each month they throw a small birthday party celebrating everyone’s birthday for that month. Since I started GeekFit with Steve I’ve walked out of the room after being social with my co-workers and before they begin cutting and handing out the cake. It’s to the point now that if they have the cake precut they just skip me when they start handing it out.

I bet most people that have vendors attempting to get you to buy their product will try to buy you lunch. I hear this tactic is VERY popular in the health industry (ironically)! Donuts, cookies and cakes are quite popular in these instances.

What things happen in your workplace that you have to resist the urge to indulge? What tactics do you use to resist?

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