I know what you must be thinking.  What the heck did he fall off the face of the earth.  Well the answer is no.  I have just been crazy busy with life. I have still been logging all my food, on the food front however I need to get serious and really look at what I am putting into my body.  The fact that the last few weeks have been crazy is no reason for me to eat like crap.  Thinking about everything I now realize that I need to take things slowly and break my goals down into smaller chunks. I seem to be much more focused on my goals when they are closer. (Can any one say procrastinator.) So I have some simple goals for the upcoming week:

• Keep my food intake below 2500 Calories each day.
• 30 min of cardio 3 days
• Blog 3 Times.
• Drink 6 16.9oz bottles of water each day.

So come on back and visit the site this week to see how I am progressing with my goals.

I got a call this afternoon from the Mac store letting me know that my computer would be ready to pick up in the morning. So we will be back on tract and I will update the last three days of calorie / food logs.

So the sick Mac sorry continues, today my best friend Jen took my Mac back to the Mac store so they could run a diagnostic on it. Turns out that the loud noise I have been hearing was the fan. They are going to replace the fan and fix the track pad at no cost to me thank you warranty. So hope fully my sad Mac will be a happy one in a few days. Until then I am still keeping track of daily food and calories and will update the posts when my computer is back up and running. Night

Hey there just a quick post tonight.  My Mac is sick and had to stay at the Mac Store tonight, so I am blogging from an old computer. Not going to give away to much but I got on the scale today I was happy with the progress. I will be back tomorrow hopefully with my mac back. So I can post my food and calorie journal. Hope you all had a great day.

Good Evening,

I have to say I have had a great day.  Work was good I feel like I am under control with what I am eating, and getting in a good burn.

 Daily Calories / Food Journal

Tonight I went to this awesome sushi  restaurant with my friend Jenn.  So a little back story, if you had asked me two years ago If I would eat sushi I would have told you that you were off your rocker. About a year ago now I was at dinner with Jenn and she ordered sushi, when we went to a thai restaurant. I don’t what came over me but I decided with much prodding from Jenn to give it a try.  Much to my surprise I actually liked it.  Since then, my relationship has changed from I can take it or leave it, to I have to have it.

That being said let’s get back to the point.  When I pulled up to the restaurant I noticed a sign in the window stating it was all you can eat. Not going to lie a sign like this made me kind of nervous.  We sat down and looked at the menu and we had no intentions of getting the all you can eat sushi. We picked out four rolls and a seaweed salad to share.  I have been wondering for while what seaweed tasted like.  I was not a huge fan of the salad, but will defiantly try seaweed again sometime.

Our Rolls arrived and let me just tell you it was like a flavor explosion in my mouth. Man was it good. After we finished our food the waitress came and asked if we would like anything else, we   declined she brought over the check.  When we realized that we had been charged for the all you can eat, we decided that if we were paying for it why not get more. So we ordered three more rolls to share. 

 I have no idea why I felt the need to order more food when I was perfectly content with what I had already eaten. I have always had this problem. I great example would be ordering pizza. If I am ordering for myself why would I need a large pizza. But its only $1 more for a large. Come it just makes sense, I justify it by telling myself that I can save the rest for another meal.  Well let’s be honest most people could probably due that with no problem.  Not me If it’s there I eat it. Something inside of me will not stop thinking about that pizza until its gone.  Hum wonder how I got to 420 lbs.  Well there you have it.

I have come to the realization that I need to talk about these issues in order for me to heal myself and truly be successful on my journey.  Jon this is you at 220 lbs talking: It’s ok to order the small pizza. Who cares if the large is only $1 more. You don’t need it or want it.

Daily Calorie / Food Journal

Hi there, just sit back and let me tell you a story about a guy named Jon.  Once upon a time Jon would eat whatever he wanted.  But the calories you say?  What’s a calorie? Jon would eat for many reasons, when he was happy, sad, bored or just because there was food in front of him. You mean he ate even though he was not hungry?  That’s right my friends, Jon had no boundaries when it came to food.  It was his best friend and worst enemy all rolled in one. The picture you see to the right is Jon the day before Thanksgiving 2011 he is at his heaviest in this picture, a whopping 420 lbs. The smile on his face is fake. He is putting on a show for the camera, and clearly is desperate and needs to make a change. Ok so now your asking yourself, how does this guy know what Jon is thinking in this photo? Well ladies and gentleman, I know because I am Jon.

To start out, I am not a dumb or lazy person. I know to  free myself from this self-inflicted prison, all I need to do is Eat Less and Move More!!!  But wait it can not be that simple. Can it? I mean if that was the case wouldn’t everyone be thin and have a six-pack.  I guess that brings me to the title of my blog. What Is Fit???  You may be saying to yourself, everyone know what it means to be fit.  Well again I don’t consider myself to be dumb, but I can honestly tell I do not know what it means or how it feels.

So I started thinking about different ways I could help myself, and maybe others discover what it means to be fit. What I came up with was some what of a crazy idea. I decided to start a blog, were I will post a daily food journal, exercise log and information I learned along the way.

 This morning I weighed in at 404 lbs. My feel great weight is 220 lbs.  So my goal is to lose 184 lbs. in the next 365 days. I feel that this is a realistic goal, that I can achieve.  I am excited and look forward to the upcoming year.

Fitness Goal Week One

Cardio 3 days for 30 min.

Daily Calorie / Food Journal