Tony’s Losing It

The show is going to go weekly for a while.

To everyone’s life comes a little excitement. And boy is mine exciting!!!

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ACK!!!

Someone forgot to post the show he recorded Friday morning.

Ooops!

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A day late. Sorry again for the sound quality on this one, such is the nature of rushing things out.

Had a much better weekend than I anticipated.

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Lite Notes: Heading out for vacation.

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Busy weekend.

Even though I didn’t think I had much to discuss, I still ended up chatting for about 15 minutes. Busy work week gets in the way of important things, but it’s still possible to make wise decisions when it comes to getting a meal on the go.

Tomorrow we find out the sex of the baby! We hope.

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Heading into the weekend.

Hope to get by that Gym at lunch, but so far things aren’t looking stellar. I hope I’ll have some good news on that front on Monday.

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Listener Vern Hart submitted this picture by way of feedback and included this text on the flickr page where this image lives:

Two months and twenty pounds later…

The left photo was taken on April 20, just before I started tracking calories at The Daily Plate.

The second photo was taken June 28. I tried to match the pose as well as I could. The difference of 22.8 pounds is subtle but gratifying.

Thanks to Tony Mast for introducing me to The Daily Plate.

Another day.

Have a great Independence Day everyone (in the US).

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Somebody stayed up too late when he was recording this one.

Have a great weekend everybody!

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Another great article from Carrie.

I’m an adventurous cook, but a lot of the time when I’m busy I don’t
stop to smell the turnips. Something that helps me mix up my meal
planning is just having a handy list of things other than cheese,
chocolate, and carbs, to put in my dinners.

My husband and I just filled out a food preference sheet put together
by Graham Kerr. He’s the former Galloping Gourmet from television, and
now promotes a healthy lifestyle. The sheet lists about a hundred
different food items– fruits, vegetables, meats, as well as
flavors—sweet, sour, spicy.

The idea is to “profile” the variety of foods that you like, to try to
vary your diet. It helps to giveyou a clear idea of what healthier

items you like to help you to choose those items, and also include

them in meal planning. For example, my husband does not like sweet
flavors in his main dishes, but I’m fine having, say, a honey sauce
with my roast chicken.

The food preference sheet can be printed off from Kerr’s Web Site, as
a pdf file, or you can register and use the interactive version. Both
versions are free.

It’s definitely more of an organizational tool more than anything, but
good to have on hand to inspire creativity. Here’s the liink:

http://www.grahamkerr.com/fps/index.php

What follows is a guest article that was sent to me last week. Carolyn is a recent listener and has offered to submit some of here thoughts and experiences to share with everyone here.

You can normally find her at www.serenityfirefly.com

Thanks, Carrie!

I have a very food-focused perspective when it comes to healthy eating and weight loss. I love to eat, but I’m not terribly willing to give up any food completely. I’ve noticed that when we have at least one vegetable side dish with the main “meat,” it helps us fill up and eat less of the higher calorie stuff.

However, veggies are not usually my first choice when I’m cooking and in a hurry. So one of my goals this summer is to eat my veggies.

One way that I’m doing that this summer is by joining a CSA. CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, is a way to buy “shares” in a local farm, and then they supply you with veggies, and sometimes fruits, on a weekly basis through the spring, summer, and fall.

I’m in my third week of participating in my local CSA. And it’s going great. I pick up my share weekly, in a spot centrally located in the city where I live. I get a nice supply of fresh vegetables weekly, and it’s pre paid. So I feel really guilty if I let them rot in my
crisper drawer.

It’s also helping me use more variety in my cooking and meal planning, without sacrificing flavor. I’ve already made some stir-fried baby bok choy and a lot of other side dishes from the veggies I’ve gotten so far.

For people who don’t want to commit to a CSA, a farmer’s market is also a good place to find fresh and exciting foods.

Here is a link where you can search for CSAs and Farmer’s markets across the US. http://www.localharvest.org/

A walk through my weekend. Talked about the Can’t Stop the Serenity screening that I attended Saturday night. Movie Theater Popcorn is one of my pitfalls. I know it is, I try to make sure that when I attend a movie that I am doing so on one of my guilt-free days.

Special thanks to Stu from Sofa Dogs. He came up with the awesome artwork you see on the last few episodes of TLI (I’m going to be retroactively adding it to some of the old episodes in the near future.

Thanks for listening!

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This one is a bit long, but considering the hour it’s amazing that I can speak in full sentences.

Thanks to all of my wonderful podcast friends who so graciously played the new promo. You guys are all metal \00/

Check back next week to read Carolyn’s articles for TLI. Content from you guys is thoroughly awesome for me. Less work.

Let me know what you think, or how you are doing on any goals you might have set.

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Now that the Boot Camp is over, I have been struggling with how I wanted to continue the exercise portion of my weight loss.

It’s amazing how much personal trainers or even the membership to a gym costs (especially when you figure in sign up fees and contracts lengths.)

My lovely wife, Julie, pointed me to an article from The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website that gives you ten workouts that you can do in your home. Each workout lists a description of how to do the workout, what you’ll need, and what you won’t need (Have a step in your house, kiss a stair walking machine goodbye.)

Ready the full article here:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/healthfitness/story/148A4B82ACE5C3BF862572FB0061BDDE?OpenDocument

I was always surprised by the amount of weight these folks would lose week after week. Hearing this really concerns me that some people may be wrecking themselves on this journey. The point is to get HEALTHIER. Destroying your body just to lose weight doesn’t make any sense. If it did, going in to get a leg amputated would be a great idea… I mean, just think how much weight you would lose.

Ok, that’s an extreme example. But if this change isn’t something sensible, it’s not going to be permanent, or worse, it could cause more harm than good.

I often thought that I would love to go on a show like this to dump weight. Now, I think I’ll stick with MY show. It’s working so far.

Thanks to my wife, Julie for sending this article to me.

Read the article here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1627013,00.html