daily life of the deanching family

Well, here’s what i learned about blackberry bes/bis service.  If you are connected via your company’s bes server and you sync with the bes wirelessly, you dont install the blackberry desktop software for bes… this will attempt to send your email via the bes and through the desktop redirector.

 Yeah, it doesnt make sense to me either, but i actually found the only Cingular tech that knew how to fix this.  Amazing.  About 5calls to cingular and the best they could do was credit me $25 and no fix, until today.

 So, this weekend, we had dinner with our friends the Paz’ and i broke my fried food rule to have some steak tacos and some chips/salsa.  I felt overwhelmingly guilty, however, after 2.5 weeks, it was more a reward vs a binging session…. sort of…

 Back on the clean eating diet……. I’m in training and on-call.  Fun times.  Later.

I got around and posted the last month’s pictures online…. check it out here -> http://www.deanching.com/coppermine

7:30am cst – large french vanilla ice coffee, no sugar….and blueberry muffin.

9:00am cst – small oatmeal w/ 2 tablespoons of peanut butter & 20oz green tea

12:00pm cst – grilled chicken caesar salad, garlic stick, and large ice tea (no sugar) from portillo’s

Whoa… didn’t realize it’s Friday the 13th…. weird.

Anyway, big thanks to Amando, he has sparked my frail & big ego into getting into better shape.  I had been doing the interval training a few weeks back, but got sidetracked when I was home when Analise was first born.  I’m back at it and trying to jog more than the elliptical.  I feel like I’ve accomplished more on the treadmill b/c I’m winded and soaked after a 20min deal.

Excuses aside, earlier this week I was chatting with Amando and he mentioned that he was on his way to losing some serious weight and had some goals.  Since I outweigh him by 2-3 tons, I have a bit more to lose….

However, I have vowed and publicly stressed (to my family and work teammates) that I have stopped drinking all DIET drinks and fried foods as of Tues, April 10th…. 

I could do a ‘cheat day’, but I’ve been doing cheat days for just a hair over 34years, so I think I’ll go with a full detox….

Now, I haven’t been eating 100% healthy, but removing the sodium from the diet pop and the fat from fried stuff should be a good jump point for me….

I’ll put it out there… I’m weighing 265lbs which is crazy overweight for my 5foot 8.99 inch height… OBESE REALLY… I’ve been sportin a 40″ waist for way too long…

my knees have been achy since we’ve moved into our new house b/c we have a full flight of stairs to our basement and near full flight to our masterbedroom….

So here’s my plan and goals.  I think it would be reasonable to drop 10-15lbs within a 2month period and then 5lbs each month afterwards….  I think it all depends on how well I can balance diet, exercise, and rest….

So here’s 4day…. I’ve replaced diet pop with water and tea.  And I’ve tried to avoid any sugar based lemonade.  As for fried foods, well, just avoiding them altogether.

The results so far, I’m hitting the washrooom like it’s going out of style, but i’m also not feeling too sleepy after meals….

Off to lunch……