Reunited!

ok, so yesterday i had a court appearance up in chatsworth. that meant i had to get up at 5, get ready and hit the road by 545, as to make the courthouse by 8. which i did. i left at 545. arrived at 9425 penfield ave at 8. mad traffics yo. and that's not the bad part. my case was heard last. that meant i was just waiting around for the court clerk to call my case, which finally came around 1045. and i don't want to get into the speci

fics, but let's just say i wasn't too happy with the judge's decision.

but on the bright side, since i was way up in the valley anyways, i decided i was gonna stop by the love of my life, aka Porto's, on my way back to the office! u know what that means - portoballs and cheese rolls.....mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm devine......

after i got back to my office, i had non stop work till 745. but that was ok, because my dear lovely friends don and annaha (or as some ppl affectionately call them "donnaha") were treating me and wooj out for dinner at bahn, which is this new korean restaurant on western and wilshire.

anyways, both porto's and bahn were BOMB DIGGITTY!

CULPRITS: Mad Good Food (MGF)

porto's cheese roll and potato ball - absolute musts when you visit this venerable glendale institution.

porto's hot pastrami - man i missed these. one of the better pastrami sandies. no langers, but still gooooooooooood.

bahn's galbi - BOMB! these delectable morsels were literally melt in your mouth soft and succulent and so full of flavor. really really really good.

bahn's gohb chang jeon gol - i don't really like spicy stuff, but i like tripe, and this was a very very fine example of such stew.

anyways, there were so much more i had yesterday, but it'd be too much work to post the pics or list them all

THE DAMAGE: oh i don't know, roughly 4500 calories of epically good times?

PRESCRIPTION: i haven't done much back exercises lately....so, 3 sets of 12 pull-ups + 5k run?

SUCCESS? i will report and update later tonight after i get home! let's if i can follow through!

*UPDATE*

so, i went home after work and i actually hit the gym!

i did 3 different chest exercises and 2 different tricep exercises. all under 35 mins!

and then i ran 2 miles around my house in 17:48!!!!! that's 8:49/mile!!!!!

so i guess you can say it was a success!!!!

note - the food i pigged out to documented above was all on tuesday. my exercises came on wed

accountability partners

*note*: i was gonna post or blog or whatever on the sad state of my body and the rude awakenings i've been experiencing, but it was just downright dreadfully depressing, so i'll prolly work on finishing it at some later time when i won't be so weak to run to a tub of ice cream to drown my sorrows in...

instead i'll just recount what i had today and see if i did anything to offset it!

the damage:

BREAKFAST - ox tail soup with a bowl of rice and pickled radishes (cals ~450 mama loves)+

SNACK - 2 clif bars and a bottle of naked juice green monster to wash it all down (cals = 330)+

LUNCH - a bowl of brown rice with 5 pieces of teeny korean pancakes and 3 carrot sticks (cals ~ oh i dunno, like 450?)+

SNACK - these 2 incredibly tasty green ricecakes with whole bunch of beans and peas and nuts in them and 2 bananas (cals ~ 300?)+

IT'S 7PM AND I'M STILL IN THE OFFICE WORKING AND I'M GOING CRAZY SNACK - 2 oh-so-crusty-from-the-morning krispy kreme donuts and an ice cold can of diet coke (cals = 400!)

TOTAL = ~1,930

prescription:

4 mile promised run with brian after work

success?

yes!!!!!!!! a smashing success!!!! our planned 4 miles turned into 6.82 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in 1:03 no less!!!! that's like almost at a 9:30/mile pace!!!! OMG!!!!! i mean, granted towards the end, i could barely breathe, my vision was getting blurry, my jaw slack (mebe i was drooling on the side), my head lobbing side to side...BUT 6.82 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and according to brian's nike+ pedometer, it said we smashed 744 cals out of our fat arses!!!!!! woooot!!!!

DOH! moment:

to celebrate our incredible run, we promptly refueled our famished bellies with chipotle's burrito bowl. damage - 590 cals.

but, all in all, a great day. worked my arse off at work 8-7 and then ran my arse off on a BOOOOOTIFUL near 7 mile run.

and it's only the beginning! yeah!!!!! is that a cheer i hear? *high fives*

but going back to the title. running with brian today i realized once again how so so awesome an accountability partner is for any undertaking. if it were me just running by myself, i would've quit after a mile. i was tired. stressed. just wanted to go home. but having brian to run with kept me going. way past our intended 4 miles. and even when i couldn't feel my legs and lungs felt like they were collapsing on themselves, i enjoyed every stride of it. thanks brian!

1st post

hi, i'm daniel. male. 30yo. and i'm in a fight to save myself.

i decided to start this blog because...well, i decided i needed more distraction in my life than i already have. no. that was my utterly feeble attempt at a joke. actually, the idea came to me as i was ravenously surfing all these incredible food blogs like kevineats and danieleats etc (i LOVE food btw). in the midst of gorging my eyes with the feasts of superfancy photos showcasing indescribably delectable meals, a realization dawned on me - that as the past 3 years saw an explosion of my degustation, so began the implosion of my fitness and health.

this was driven more viscerally and visually to me when my friend sent me this link

http://dwellingintheword.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/6-fat-man.jpg (WARNING! you may go "UGH!") telling me he found a pic of me. now i know he was only kidding (right, paul?), but it really got me all depressed. because that was me. actually it isn't. but i really felt like i was that guy with all my flabulous belly overflowing over my beltline, my pants popping at its seams, and this really heaviness in my lungs making even breathing a laborious undertaking.

i mean i've been joking lately that my belly now has a gravitational orbit of its own...but i wasn't always like this. i used to run. i used to go to the gym on a consistent basis. i used to eat healthy. i used to really live! what's happened to me?

well, what's happened is i hit 30, really started working, ate like whatevers, stopped exercising and got fat. everyone's typical story. and the scary thing? i found myself complacently resigned to my current state of expanding atrophy. but receiving that pic and hearing it from paul of all people that is who i am was like a swift kick in the you-know-what.

so comes about this blog. i will be documenting what i ate that day (including pics if i can help it) and what type of exercise (or activity) i did to offset it. cuz as everyone knows, it's a battle of caloric in/egress. this will in no way be scientific at all. instead i'll just describe what i had, perhaps not every meal either, just some mentionables, and will attach what i would need to do (purely on a guess) to offset that.

i.e. on tuesday, i had this for lunch:

CULPRIT: a huge bowl of pork chops (6 of them) smothered in thick cheese and tomato meat sauce over spaghetti from boston cafe.

DAMAGE: roughly 3000 calories, give or take 1000.

PRESCRIPTION: run 5 miles.

SUCCESS? utter failure - went home and drowned my sorrows with a tub of ice cream.

as i said, this is NOT a scientific documentation in any way.

now, what do i want to accomplish with this? more than anything it's to keep me accountable. and i'm opening it up to the world (all 2 of youS), so you too can keep me accountable! so i invite you guys as i go, or run, on this journey back to reclaiming myself back!

wish me luck!