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.

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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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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/

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The extended stay routine has kept me away from restaurants. Mostly. Tonight my buddy Rob Schricker came through and picked me up we went into Seattle to meet up with some friends of his.

The challenge: french fries.

I don’t know what it is about french fries. I can choose the chicken sandwich over the burger. I can even pass on the ranch and stick with ketchup. French fries get me every time. I didn’t avoid them tonight, but I think in the future I’m definitely going to have to either opt for fruit or something.

What would you do? Shoot me an email and help me out.

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My buddy Jacob has a health and fitness website called This Is Not a Diet where he is documenting the journey of some of his friends and family losing weight and living healthy.  Their tagline is: “It’s a year long mission to break the habits that make us unhealthy and overweight”. Currently they have thirteen people involved in this project, they document their struggles and achievements in the form of words, video, audio and pictures. I plan to get him on the show to discuss what they are doing over there and how everyone is progressing.

ThisIsNotADiet.org

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bananna, salisbury steak, nutter butter & chex for lunch today
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Pita - Turkey & Cheese
Arizona Green Tea
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Lunch

• Weight Watchers - Smart Ones - Creamy Rigatoni with Broccoli & Chicken
• Fruit Leather
• Diet Coke

3pm Snack

• Cookies
• Fruit Leather