MFP Day 300: Maybe I Need to Have my Head Examined?
Posted on 4/06/2012 by dsjohndrow
Waxing a bit philosophical, what is 300 days? It's not memorable for a baby, it's an eternity for cancer survivor, it's forever to a 5-year-old, it's a long time to spend in the bathroom, and on MFP it's - well interesting.
Here's what happened to me in 300 days of logging in.
- I took a chance and made my first friend MixMode - but he is deactivated. :(
- I wrote my first blog back in September '11.
- I read a message board about EATING your exercise calories.
- I read a message board about NOT EATING your exercise calories.
- I read a message board about EATING HALF your exercise calories.
- I never read message board about NOT EATING at all.
- I used the bathroom about 1,521 times because I drank about 2,302 glasses of water.
- I weighed in 559 times (because I have to for my heart program). And if I kick the scale they bill me $1,500, so I took it out on the trainer at the Y.
- I made measurements of all my body parts.
- I took about 350 showers, most of them alone.
- I accepted about 666 friend requests - none from the Devil.
- I logged what I ate on Christmas, Thanksgiving, my birthday, and breakfast this morning.
- I drank two 12 oz Cokes.
- I ate 21 slices of pizza.
- I Ran 461.19 miles @ 3.7 MPH.
- I Rocked 104,492 calories exercising.
- I lost 50-something pounds.
- I had knee surgery.
- I ran 12.57 MPH for the first time in a bajillion years.
- I cut my blood pressure meds to 1/4 of what they were and dropped a few altogether.
- I finished my first ever 5K on March 25th.
- I heard the cardiologist say: "Your heart is fine - like it never happened."
- I thought I finally understood woman, but I was wrong.
- The Bruins won the Stanley Cup, the The Pats lost the Superbowl and the Red Sox totally sucked.
- I bought a new bicycle.
- I never deleted an MFP freind.
- I registered for 3 more 5Ks and maybe will do 5 or 6 more this season.
- I exercised on vacation in Florida, California and Cape Cod.
- I did "that" and didn't log it - and well it's none of your business.
- I changed my diet to exclusively contain low-fat dairy, whole grains; lean meat, fish and pork; lots of veggies and fruit, and dark chocolate.
- I never had a cheat day.
- I went over my calores about 12 times (all the rest of the times I lied. Ha!)
- I learned how to eat out without blowing my log for the day or the week.
And best of all, I have found some of you to be the most supportive friends that I have had on this journey, and that's why I need to have my head examined. :) Thanks for all your support, comments, votes, corrections and care, it matters.
Another great blog... And thank you for being my MFP Friend :) You make me smile.