289 LB THIS MORNING. Still eating right…no cheats.
Thought I would take this post to answer a comment left on my last post. One that is from an online buddy FITCETERA (Great site, take a look when you get a chance, tell her Big Al said HELLO)
http://katschisfitcetera.blogspot.com/
anyway she said she was glad I mention how your body holds water after starting a new workout. I mention this mainly because when my family and I owned BODY FLEX FITNESS CENTER (for 17 years) one of the biggest complaints came from the ladies (sorry girls) that I would start on a new workout program. They would come in all excited about getting in shape, starting their diets and would workout with weights like crazy…only to wake up gaining 2 to 10 pounds in one day…Ouch!!! Trust me they would let me know the next day. It’s very hard to explain to them while they are depriving themselves of their favorite food and working out like mad why they are gaining weight. It’s really just a simple as your body is trying to repair itself. The best thing to remember is as long as your muscles are sore you will be holding water. As the soreness goes away, so will the water…don’t panic and stick with it, this should only take a few days, a week at the most.
She also commented that I did not look like I weighed 289 lb (thanks for that. Ha-ha) and I must be tall…well I don’t call my blog Big Als Compound for nothing. I am tall by most people standers 6’ 5”, truth is at the height of my weight lifting days I could walk around at a body weight of 290 lb and not hate myself to much. I still carry more than average amount of muscle mass (cover with fat...gross) on my body so I think this aids to the illusion of being lighter than I am. I guess I need to measure in just to help keep track. 290 lb for me right now is just to much…I’m thinking of the 265 lb range sounds good to me…I call this my fighting weight…why I’ll never know…ok truth is I do know, but I’ll most likely keep it to myself. Ha-ha.
Until next time
Big Al
NOTE: I’m going to start adding this note to each of my blog post until the 56 DAY FITNESS COUNTDOWN is over…I’m doing this incase some new readers come on and wonder what the heck is going on…if your lost look to the top left hand corner of the blog page and click on “THE START” under the 56 DAY FITNESS COUNTDOWN (LINKS)…it will explain what’s going or just use it to look at a post you might have missed…oh yea my weight loss will be posted daily just above that…hope this helps.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Day 5 plus Banana tree massacre
Well it’s that time of the year…time for the banana trees to DIE!!! You have heard of the Texas chainsaw massacre…well now you’re going to hear the story about the Mississippi chainsaw banana tree massacre…
Scary stuff. Ha-ha.
I used a day of vacation Monday and decided it was time to cut down the banana trees (they die every winter and grow back bigger in the summer) I thought I would dedicate one hour of my day removing the tree…wrong!!! It end up taking me 3 or 4 hours of very hard work…banana trees are strange, very easy to cut down I used and old rusty knife
I used a day of vacation Monday and decided it was time to cut down the banana trees (they die every winter and grow back bigger in the summer) I thought I would dedicate one hour of my day removing the tree…wrong!!! It end up taking me 3 or 4 hours of very hard work…banana trees are strange, very easy to cut down I used and old rusty knife
that my grandfather and I built when I was only 6 or 7 years old. My grandfather and I built many of knives over the years out of every kind of steel you can image. Truth is if we found a piece of metal laying around we made a knife out of it…why I may never know anyway for some reason I kept this knife for all these years (priceless) ok as I was saying the trees cut down real easy, but they are full of water, this makes them very heavy. That’s where the chainsaw came in
I used it to cut the 19 trees (that’s right I said 19 trees) into one foot size.
That’s where the problem comes in…Hmm 19 trees 20 to 25 feet tall divided by one foot…that’s a lot of tree parts laying on the ground plus they are in the pool area,
this means I had to throw all the part over the fence then go around and carry each part ONE BY ONE to the woods…
Ouch my back hurts just thinking about it. Ha-ha (not funny at the time) Well job well done, one thing I can check off my list of things needing to be done around the compound.
Well woke up this morning at a body weight Of 289 LB…Ouch!!! WRONG WAY BIG AL. ha-ha. Ok why all the humor about gaining weight, you ask?…well its simple…No, no I did not cheat yesterday, I was on my best behavior. Let’s just say being in the gym business for 17 years has taught me a few things. I know my body pretty well, I’m holding a ton of water due to my new workouts, and my body hurts from head to toe…very sore muscles. Its just the body trying to repair itself, sucking up all the water it can…so my weight lose may look kind of bad for a day or two…I’ll try not to panic…Ha-ha.
Big Al
NOTE: I’m going to start adding this note to each of my blog post until the 56 DAY FITNESS COUNTDOWN is over…I’m doing this incase some new readers come on and wonder what the heck is going on…if your lost look to the top left hand corner of the blog page and click on “THE START” under the 56 DAY FITNESS COUNTDOWN (LINKS)…it will explain what’s going or just use it to look at a post you might have missed…oh yea my weight loss will be posted daily just above that…hope this helps.
Monday, November 9, 2009
DAY FOUR
Just a little food talk…I’ve been getting some questions about some of the food I’ve been eating. I do A LOT of stir-frying…why? Taste good and its fast to cook. One of the meals I love to cook is chicken and veggies stir-fry, it’s so simple and best of all one frying pan full can make many meals to eat on all day long. Truth is I cheat as much as possible; the chicken comes per-cooked
And I buy the veggie mix frozen…
it takes about 7 minutes from start to finish cooking and cleaning. I just throw the chicken into a hot frying pan covered with Pam, I give the chicken about a one minute head start in the pan then I throw in the frozen veggies, after about another minute I LIGHTLY cover the mix with Toney’s seasoning and sometimes a little soy sauce.
And I buy the veggie mix frozen…
it takes about 7 minutes from start to finish cooking and cleaning. I just throw the chicken into a hot frying pan covered with Pam, I give the chicken about a one minute head start in the pan then I throw in the frozen veggies, after about another minute I LIGHTLY cover the mix with Toney’s seasoning and sometimes a little soy sauce.
That’s it…just a few more minutes and its done; pour it on a plate, quick hand wash of the pan in the sink and it time to eat…Mmm Mmmm Good!
One word of warning…a lot of the stir-fry veggies (like photo above) come with a seasoning pack in the bag…beware…most of the ones I’ve looked at, while very tasty are very high in sugar, THROW THOSE SUCKERS AWAY…it little mistake like eating these packets that can ruin your diet for the day…READ the labels people.
Woke up this morning with a body weight of 286 LB...Oh yea and sore from head to toe.
Big Al
Big Al
NOTE: I’m going to start adding this note to each of my blog post until the 56 DAY FITNESS COUNTDOWN is over…I’m doing this incase some new readers come on and wonder what the heck is going on…if your lost look to the top left hand corner of the blog page and click on “THE START” under the 56 DAY FITNESS COUNTDOWN (LINKS)…it will explain what’s going or just use it to look at a post you might have missed…oh yea my weight loss will be posted daily just above that…hope this helps.
DAY THREE
Yesterday started off with big Sunday morning breakfast…ok not the kind I use to eat…
but a better one…two eggs (see I told you I love eggs) with red Bell pepper, few sprigs of broccoli, pinch of shred cheese and one small scoop grits (no butter) salt and pepper.
It’s amazing how once you start eating simple, how good food taste again.
Got started back to the gym today…it’s a small 24 hour gym in downtown Petal ANYTIME FITNESS that I joined a few months ago. Went around 11:00 am did my first workout with weights in a while (if you want to call it that. Ha-ha) good news was I could join my two passions due to the beautiful weather, motorcycle riding and working-out….very nice day for a ride.
Short treadmill walk, very mild bicep and worked my back very lightly, good work-out for a first day back.
Once home I made a tuna sandwich, one pack of albacore tuna in spring water, one slice of 9 grain whole wheat bread toasted, cut in half with one half teaspoon of mayonnaise, a teaspoon of mustard and the rest of the tuna on the side.
I love tuna almost as much as I love eggs…ha-ha. Only thing that would have made it better would have been boiled eggs chopped up in it… normally I would have done that but I had to beat the 45 minute deadline of eating protein after a work…I try to live by this rule when working-out.
I ended up eating about 6 oz of sliced roast beef with a few carrots and onions mixed in around dinner time,
I left the butter filled mashed potatoes, garlic bread for the rest of the family. Later that night I got a craving so I ate some celery with peanut butter on it…Great snack…try it sometime. High in fiber, protein and the good kind of fats; as long as you don’t go crazy with the peanut butter.
Woke up this morning to a body weight of 287 LB. Only one pound lost but that was to be expected due to the muscle soreness I also woke up to…Ouch!!! I’m sure I am holding water…should take a couple of days to get over the soreness and water.
Big Al
but a better one…two eggs (see I told you I love eggs) with red Bell pepper, few sprigs of broccoli, pinch of shred cheese and one small scoop grits (no butter) salt and pepper.
It’s amazing how once you start eating simple, how good food taste again.
Got started back to the gym today…it’s a small 24 hour gym in downtown Petal ANYTIME FITNESS that I joined a few months ago. Went around 11:00 am did my first workout with weights in a while (if you want to call it that. Ha-ha) good news was I could join my two passions due to the beautiful weather, motorcycle riding and working-out….very nice day for a ride.
Short treadmill walk, very mild bicep and worked my back very lightly, good work-out for a first day back.
Once home I made a tuna sandwich, one pack of albacore tuna in spring water, one slice of 9 grain whole wheat bread toasted, cut in half with one half teaspoon of mayonnaise, a teaspoon of mustard and the rest of the tuna on the side.
I love tuna almost as much as I love eggs…ha-ha. Only thing that would have made it better would have been boiled eggs chopped up in it… normally I would have done that but I had to beat the 45 minute deadline of eating protein after a work…I try to live by this rule when working-out.
I ended up eating about 6 oz of sliced roast beef with a few carrots and onions mixed in around dinner time,
I left the butter filled mashed potatoes, garlic bread for the rest of the family. Later that night I got a craving so I ate some celery with peanut butter on it…Great snack…try it sometime. High in fiber, protein and the good kind of fats; as long as you don’t go crazy with the peanut butter.
Woke up this morning to a body weight of 287 LB. Only one pound lost but that was to be expected due to the muscle soreness I also woke up to…Ouch!!! I’m sure I am holding water…should take a couple of days to get over the soreness and water.
Big Al
Sunday, November 8, 2009
DAY TWO...
Yesterday not a lot to report…I had a lot of work to do around the house…even though my motorcycle was calling me all day long. 
Eating went great…In the zone this time, eating every 2 to three hours…loving it. I got to admit no gym today like I promised. I ended up spending the day finishing up my kitchen cabinets. (Kitchen story coming soon) My high light of the food day was dinner…I got to admit it looks gross…
but man it was good…low calorie Under 200, high protein, plus a serving of veggies, not to mention the bowl was huge…truth is could not finish it all…don’t worry it did not go to waste the little wife ate it all up…good meal. Oh yea…here is the indigents…two eggs, half bell pepper, half zucchini, few sprigs of broccoli, all stirred fried together (with Pam only) and eaten hot.
Body weight this morning 288LB
Body weight this morning 288LB
NOTE: I’m going to start adding this note to each of my blog post until the 56 DAY FITNESS COUNTDOWN is over…I’m doing this incase some new readers come on and wonder what the heck is going on…if your lost look to the top left hand corner of the blog page and click on “THE START” under the 56 DAY FITNESS COUNTDOWN (LINKS)…it will explain what’s going or just use it to look at a post you might have missed…oh yea my weight loss will be posted daily just above that…hope this helps.
Big Al
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Yesterday…Day 1
What a day…it started off with two temptations right off the bat…TEMPTATION ONE, a co-worker David call me in a little distress his Buick Rivera, had broken down and left him stranded on the side of the road.
The look of SHAME!!!
As night came I took the remainder of the mix and mixed in three eggs for dinner…Mmmmm I love eggs…as you will soon see. Bodybuilder’s best kept secret
Me being the super guy that I am quickly jumped into my He-Man outfit
and was on my way. (YEA I’M A SUPERHERO ON MY OFF TIME, I bet you did not know that) Anyway I asked David “where are you?” his answer “right next to Krispy Cream Donuts”
I’m surprised he did not tell me the little red light was on, this tells everyone the donuts are hot and fresh…OUCH!! Then as I was getting ready for the rescue “TEMPTATION TWO” another co-worker ANN asked me if I would mind, picking up a sausage and biscuit from Hardee’s while I was out. Still wearing my He-Man outfit, I just had to say sure…(Got to get rid of that outfit.Ha-ha) once the rescue was complete, David and I stopped at Hardee’s and got the sausage biscuit, oh and then David decided he had to have a LARGE COKE…killer, killer…
The rest of the day went pretty much uneventful, good food…I cooked up some grilled chicken with squash, bell pepper, zucchini, broccoli;
As night came I took the remainder of the mix and mixed in three eggs for dinner…Mmmmm I love eggs…as you will soon see. Bodybuilder’s best kept secret
Woke up this morning to a body weight of 291lb…good start…back to the GYM TODAY….let the workouts began.
Big Al
Big Al
Friday, November 6, 2009
56 DAY FITNESS COUNTDOWN
I’m back!!! Yea, yea, I know you missed me.
Ha-ha. First let me say I’m sorry for letting everyone down on the thirty day body experiment…I got to admit I went about it all wrong…last time I strayed far away from the thing I love…Weightlifting.
Big mistake…it’s been around a year since I’ve really been in a gym, even my own gym at the compound…time to start moving some iron around again.
I’m trying to come up with some ideas to make my fitness adventure more interesting to my readers. Last time (around a year ago) I wrote about bodybuilding on my blog I got a LOT of email questions about working out (I do have a lot of knowledge in this area…just have not used it much lately) my thinking
was maybe doing a lot more photos of the workouts, food prep, along with day to day fitness stuff. I’m looking into getting another video camera to do some video feeds. Looking for a cheap camera that uses a data stick for easy of loading to my computer; I need a cheap one as I want to carry it on my fishing, hiking and motorcycle trips, where damage is sure to happen…
Ha-ha.
Why the 56 day fitness countdown? Its time to get in shape. Why 56 days? Well two reasons, ONE, I sucked so badly at the 30 day body experiment couple of months ago,
that I wanted to punish myself, with a longer amount of days. TWO, there are 56 days left until the new year, and nothing makes me happier than being in decent shape at the start of a new year.
As with last time I will be posting my body weight daily on the upper left hand side of my blogs home page. I think this time I will leave my blood sugar readings off, don’t really see how blood sugar is much of an interest to the readers (if you would like to me to track it let me know, I’ll add it)
Anyway I started today…and will have a post ready for tomorrow…today has already started me off with many test of my will power…victory will be mine!!! STARTING WEIGHT 295LB.
Big Al
Ha-ha. First let me say I’m sorry for letting everyone down on the thirty day body experiment…I got to admit I went about it all wrong…last time I strayed far away from the thing I love…Weightlifting.
Big mistake…it’s been around a year since I’ve really been in a gym, even my own gym at the compound…time to start moving some iron around again.
I’m trying to come up with some ideas to make my fitness adventure more interesting to my readers. Last time (around a year ago) I wrote about bodybuilding on my blog I got a LOT of email questions about working out (I do have a lot of knowledge in this area…just have not used it much lately) my thinking
was maybe doing a lot more photos of the workouts, food prep, along with day to day fitness stuff. I’m looking into getting another video camera to do some video feeds. Looking for a cheap camera that uses a data stick for easy of loading to my computer; I need a cheap one as I want to carry it on my fishing, hiking and motorcycle trips, where damage is sure to happen…
Ha-ha.
Why the 56 day fitness countdown? Its time to get in shape. Why 56 days? Well two reasons, ONE, I sucked so badly at the 30 day body experiment couple of months ago,
that I wanted to punish myself, with a longer amount of days. TWO, there are 56 days left until the new year, and nothing makes me happier than being in decent shape at the start of a new year.
As with last time I will be posting my body weight daily on the upper left hand side of my blogs home page. I think this time I will leave my blood sugar readings off, don’t really see how blood sugar is much of an interest to the readers (if you would like to me to track it let me know, I’ll add it)
Anyway I started today…and will have a post ready for tomorrow…today has already started me off with many test of my will power…victory will be mine!!! STARTING WEIGHT 295LB.
Big Al
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