Weight Mate

Hey mates, it's David. Today is Friday, January 27th. 

It's been a few days. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Or in this case, the lack of podcast episodes.

I'll be honest and up front. I got burned out. Especially trying to say the same thing every day, but in different ways. It's tough. 

Especially when, at times, I just don't have the energy to do things. I want to meal prep, but I also want to relax an...

Hey mates, it's David. It's January 23rd and I'm re-recording this episode and releasing it on the 24th. So, a time skip, if you will.

I needed sleep, and apparently, that meant that my brain was like "Nope, not going to do anything right now." So I went to bed about an hour earlier than normal. I scrapped the episode that was supposed to have been released.

I'll be honest with everyone. I was tired. I've been running on 4 hours of...

Hey mates, it's David, back with you on this Sunday, the 22nd!

Today, the family and I went to the local renfaire. Like I'd said previously, we hadn't been to a renfaire since 2009 or so. So we went today, when the temperatures looked like they'd be good... but they hit about mid 80s and I got a sunburn. Most likely waiting for the joust, since it was out in the open and mid-day when the sun was beating down on us. Florida should n...

Hey there mates, it's David here. It's Saturday, January 21st. 

Tomorrow, we're going to a RenFaire for the first time in awhile and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm also thinking about joining a bowling league to at least get a bit of exercise in. That's still up in the air though.

I wanted to take a moment and talk about eating out. Oops, I did it again. I'm neither Britney, or wearing her red catsuit. But that's neithe...

Hey mates, it's January 20th. TGIF. It's Friday!

Not much is going on over here. Since it was a Friday, we do Friday Family movie nights. We used to do Uber Eats every Friday, but now, whoever has the movie pick now picks a meal for me to make. So today, my middle kiddo chose stuffed shells. The filling was SO good and the meat sauce turned out well too.

This weekend I'm hoping to get to a few of the other supermarkets to start che...

Hey mates, it's David. It's January 19, a Thursday. All this week I've had to remind myself what day it was.

Today was another decent day for food. I made sure to eat, I drank some water, but not enough. Not as much as I should be, but I am drinking more than previous days. So baby steps. I had some questions come in to the email and wanted to take time to answer them. 

What made me decide on a daily podcast vs a weekly podcas...

It's Wednesday, January 18th. And here I am, late again. My apologies to you, my mates

Today was a relatively good day for eating. I ate and whoops... forgot to eat dinner. Let me take a moment to do that.

And I'm back. Dinner was later than normal because I forgot and because we were busy today with volunteer hours for my kiddos.

I wanted to take today's episode to talk about what they did today. Today, they served the community i...

Good evening mates, it's David. It's Tuesday, January 17th. It's always weird when we have Monday's off. Today felt like a Monday, even though its Tuesday.

Today, my eating was more improved. Hard boiled eggs, vegetables and kielbasa. I prepped the kielbasa early this morning in the air fryer. Tonight, I seasoned and cooked a whole 5 pound chicken in our Emeril air fryer. The air fryer is a really cool, powerful gadget. Not only do...

Hey mates, it's David. Today is January 16th. Tom Brady and the Bucs are out. The Cowboys are in, and we now are already mid way into January. Time is always something that just moves so fast and so slow at the same time.

Today was weigh in day. And like I thought, I didn't lose. But, I didn't gain either. I held steady. Which means at the very least, that my baby steps are overcoming my issues with not eating right, not meal prepp...

Hey there mates, it's David and today I'm wrapping up Sunday, January 15th. I can't apologize for the time I get these out to you, but at least they're consistent!

I wanted to first thank those of you who are listening. I'm trying to vary things up so as to not bore you, and to help provide insight into what I'm doing.

Briefly, today, I prepped some eggs for this coming week, we have a chicken to be cooked tomorrow for meal prep th...

Hey mates, it's me, David. It's Saturday and I just watched one of the wildest come from behind NFL games... the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the LA Chargers. It was WILD. If you watch sportsball stuff, I hope you caught it. And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, that's ok too.

I didn't do any prep today for food. I didn't exercise or walk, even though it was nice and cool outside for Florida. I yet again... did nothing. Ther...

Content warning: Body Dysmorphia

Hey mates, it is Friday the 13th. I always love Friday the 13th. 13 is my favorite number. I hope you all had a good Friday, and that you all get to enjoy this weekend - if you're off!

So yesterday, I talked about my gastric sleeve surgery. After I had dropped the 100 pounds, there was another issue. Some people don't know about body dysmorphia. Even I didn't really understand it. For me, when ...

Hey mates, it's January 12th. Today's not been that great of a day. I've been in a grumpy mood and I ate my feelings throughout the day.

I was thinking about what I wanted to talk about today. Because obviously, I was not accountable in any way today. So I guess today is as good a time as any to talk about some of the past stuff that I'm working my way through and what I'd done previously.

You may have heard me mention that I can't...

Hey mates, it's me, David. Today is January 11th. And here I am, being late today. Time slipped away from me and well... my apologies. Like Gandalf says, a wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to. I guess this episode is like that.

With the past episodes, I've talked about my day to day. In some of the episodes coming up, I'm going to talk more about my history. To kind of break up the routine o...

Hey mates. It's Tuesday, the 10th. I saw something today that I wanted to touch upon and how it relates to what I'm doing.

So the thing I came across was essentially... be 1 percent better than you were yesterday. I've probably seen that a few times before, but it's really something that just got to me. Everything I've talked about has been baby steps. And this is no different. If I drink 20 ounces of water today, then tomorrow... ...

Good Monday mates! I hope everyone enjoyed the final week of NFL football over the weekend, and enjoyed watching Georgia stomp TCU in the college final tonight. 

So, let's get down to business. I did my weigh in. My first one since New Year's Day. And if you've been listening from the beginning, you know I gained 5 pounds between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. I did what I did the past week. From meal prep, to eating ok, t...

Hey mates. It's the end of the week. The first full week of me doing this. This podcast. Doing what I can to keep myself accountable, and you listening and letting me know your thoughts and recipes and everything in between.

Tomorrow is my weigh in day. I'll be weighing in after waking up, and seeing what the scale says. I know I didn't do the best. There were several times where my baby steps were maybe just micro baby steps. Or a...

It's Saturday mates, even though I'm recording this as it's about to become Sunday here in Orlando. I got caught up watching the Tennessee Titans play the Jacksonville Jaguars. Spoiler alert, Jacksonville won.

Today was... a setback day. I'll be straight up honest with everyone. The morning was fine. I had a decent breakfast. A sausage and egg burrito with onions and peppers. I had my coffee. Things were trucking along. Then we had...

TGIF to all my mates. It's the first Friday of January. The first Friday of babysteps.

Another short episode today. I cooked the second batch of the chicken I had seasoned. So I have another 4.5lbs of chicken ready for the weekend. I ate ok too. I had the last of the hardboiled eggs for breakfast. For lunch, I had a morningstar farm buffalo chicken patty. Granted, not the best choice, but it's somewhat good. No bread, so that's a g...