Day 3! 9-15-13

Fitbit Day 3! 9-15-13 Sunday

Weight:269

Calories: 3645

Morale: High

I weighed myself today and found that I had reached my goal weight in less than four days. I don’t know how. I am attributing it to voodoo magic and the fact that I haven’t been eating all that much since Friday. Also I have been actively trying to get my calorie burn up. I woke up at the crack of noon today to three dogs deciding it was time to wrassle. I would say wrestle but I don’t feel that to be the most appropriate term. Two black labs and a Great Dane decided it would be a great time to pounce on me at once. Elyssa woke me up and I took a shower. Elyssa wanting to work out and I wanting to take it easy as I hold the view that Sunday is the Lord’s Day and so you should rest. Something I find my girlfriend understands only at her convenience. I finally agreed that we could take the dogs out to play fetch only to discover that for some reason they did not care to play today.  It seemed that they too wanted to rest on the lords day. Though the Great Dane did chase a flock of geese that were hoarding the park. Elyssa and I then walked my black lab from her house to my house. A two and a half miles total. Upon arriving at home I synched the Fitbit and was happy to see I had nearly completed my 10,000 steps. I then weighed myself and stared in disbelief that I had already lost 4 pounds and reached my short term goal. I set a new weight goal and looked at the interface a little bit. I found it interesting that I could see at what time on Friday night I had driven Shawn to the grocery store. I could also see at what time Nut, Elyssa and I were at the zoo the day before. Those were periods that the Fitbit had registered increased activity, so I was impressed to say the least at the very least to see some apparent proof that this device is more sophisticated that Nut and I previously had discussed. He looked up the theory of operation behind the Fitbit and decided that though it wasn’t all too sophisticated it was nonetheless still a little impressive. I decided that if I reached 250 pounds I would declare my purchase of the Fitbit to be a good thing. Whether it is apparently a scam or not.

Elyssa desiring food and bothering me nonstop about going to the grocery store to look at fresh fruit for breakfast negotiated with me. We would go to the grocery store. But we would go to Jensen’s which is the local grocery store. We would go on foot and then we would walk back to Elyssa’s house. This plan of mine was an effort to cross the 4000 calorie threshold for today. Upon arriving at the grocery store I for the first time today realized I was hungry. We ended up buying more food than we should have. I purchased a larger ribeye steak, a carton of mushrooms, a loaf of French bread and a small container of whole milk. (My only weakness!) While Elyssa picked up green peppers, onions and a drink. We then proceeded to walk back to her house where I noticed I had blisters growing on both feet.

Upon arriving back at Elyssa’s house her parents immediately told us to take our shoes off. With much dismay I obliged and immediately after taking my first step without the cushion that was the sole of my shoe discovered just how extensive the damage was. I nearly screamed as I felt one of the blisters on the bottom of my feet pop and then hopped to the back door where I proceeded to cook. I am so glad that I was full within half of the chunk of meat that I grilled. I realized immediately after finishing the cooking process just how much food I had on my plate. I saved half of it for lunch tomorrow. I then drove home, greeted the puppy and proceeded to lay on my bed. It was at this time that the energy expelled during the weekend and the food coma I had received overcame each other and I zoned out for what felt like an hour.