25th day I Tested Some Fast Food

So after 25 days of not drinking soda and trying to stay away from fast food I decided to get some Wendy's to see what I was missing. I really didn't like the taste of cherry coke after all that time with out it and fast food doesn't taste nearly as good as I remember

Points breakdown:

+1 Fruit smoothie(strawberries, blueberries, blackberries)
+1 Banana mid morning
+1 Two Clementines
+1 Bowl of fruit salad from the can the now sugar added kind
+2 Paddle tennis
-1 Glass of Red Wine
-5 Fast food Wendy's Baconator double with small fries and a cherry coke


Grand Total: -1


Notes: 

If last night is any indication I will be continuing my trend of cutting out soda and fast food going forward if I could just cut back on the drinking and the social life I might end up with 6-pack abs by summer. not enjoying the taste of foods that use to be killing my diet and replacing them with quality foods might lead to good things once i leave the holidays behind.

On a side note I am attempting to figure out what the next life Hack I am going to be doing I might try to come up a few ideas tomorrow and post them.


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On the 9th Day of Life Hack I Gave to Me!

The first day of no negatives and a new high water mark!
Check out the breakdown:

+1 Fruit smoothie (Silk soy milk, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries)
+1 Multivitamin my morning dose
+1 Two clementines at lunch
+1 Bowl of carrots mid afternoon
+5 Lifting and half hour cardio at the gym (15 minutes on the bike, 10 min treadmill, 15min arch trainer)
+1 Big Side of snow peas at dinner
+1 Smoothie with dinner (1% milk, Banana, dash of chocolate sauce for taste)


Grand Total + 11

Notes:
From here on out I am adding the hip exercise that my physical therapist recommended it will have a +1 value not sure what they are called but I know how to do them :)

First Days Results Are In!

On the first day of my new life hack experiment I ended up with a  positive number, here is the breakdown:

+1 for morning fruit smoothie (milk, strawberries and a banana)
+1 for a multivitamin as soon as I got to work
-2 for left over pizza for lunch
+1 for late afternoon multivitamin(this multivitamin is supposed to be taken  twice a day...not cheating)
-1 for a bowl of Pizza flavored goldfish crakers
+5 for playing a hockey game-We lost

 Grand total +5

Interesting fact of the day:
1 12 ounce can of soda per day + about 1 extra can per week (total 450 cans pr year) is 63,000 calories which is the equivalent to 18 pounds of fat. That's a lot to have to burn every year just to maintain your weight.

Weight at the end of day one life hack:                                      180lbs.
Weight senior year in high school:                                              165lbs

Introduction and Backround

I am creating this blog to post my results for a life Hacking experiment, That I am starting tomorrow November 26 2012. Everyday I will be tracking two statistics the first is a diet/health statistic in which I have built a list of foods that I currently eat that are unhealthy or high in calories if not both. These foods will have negative point values ranging from -1 to -5. There are also a few things such as Fruits, vegetables and multivitamin's that have a +1 value and two levels of cardio that are worth +2 points(15min) or + 5 points(30min) to off set the bad with a little healthy food and activity. Over time the hope is to reduce my intake of empty calories lose a few pounds and become healthier overall.

There will also be a missed opportunities statistic which will be a combination of opportunities that might be  social financial or anything that I feel like I should have done yet at the time decided to do nothing. This statistic will probably be hard to track and biased towards opportunities missed but we will see if over time I make more of an effort to take chances where in the past I have avoided the risk. My hope is that with this statistic I will start pushing myself to take more chances and see where that takes me.  

"If they didn’t measure their performance, how would they know if they improved? " -Todd Smith