Race for the Cure – Evansville, IN

This past weekend Evansville, IN held their Race for the Cure 3K run. Andrea, her cousin Jess, Jess’s husband Bill, and I all participated. The girls ran while Bill and I walked the race.

The temperature was great in the upper 60s. Andrea and Jess finished the race right around thirty minutes. It took Bill and I right out an hour.

Race for the Cure is a great caused and we all had fun getting out and spending time with others who also feel the same.

I tracked my progress on my smartphone. My smartphone service is only $49 a month for unlimited talk, text and data on a 4G network through Solavei. If you would like to also have affordable cell service sign up today by clicking on this link!

The app I used to track my progress was Runtastic. I really like this app. Runtastic hooked up with my GPS and Google maps. It let me know who fast I was going and the change in elevation. Once the race was done I could go back and see the route we took and my progress. This app also enables you to hook up to a heart monitor if you have one. I don’t have one yet but I have seen some on the internet for right around $60 that are bluetooth capable. I am planning on buying one for me and Andrea here in the near future.

I encourage everyone to get out and do some exercise. It is great for your health both physically and mentally.

Find a cause you feel strongly about and get out and support it. Whether you do a race, help organize one of their functions, or donate money. You will feel great doing it.

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Have a Great Week!

 

Bourbon Marinaded Salmon, Brown Rice, and Creamy Spinach Total Meal 608 Calories

Here is another meal Andrea and I per paired the other night. The bourbon marinade is a recipe that a chef in Jacksonville, FL gave me a few years ago. We really like it. It goes great on the Salmon and chicken too.

Bourbon Marinade

• 1/2 cup of molasses
• 1/2 cup of soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon of garlic
• 1 tablespoon of ginger

I marinaded the salmon for about thirty minutes and then cooked it on the stove.

Here is the brake down on the calories for our dinner.

• Marinaded Salmon – 398 calories
• 1/2 cup of brown rice – 150 calories
• 1/2 cup of creamy spinach – 60 calories
• total calories – 608

I am also tracking my calorie intake on Lose It! It has helped me stay on track and realize how bad some of the food I have been eating are for me.

I really like using Lose It! because they have a mobile app that I can access on my Solavei cell phone. It really makes it easy to keep up with my weight loss progress. What I love about Solavei is that I can get unlimited talk, text, and data for only $49 a month and no contract! To get more information on how you too can get unlimited talk, text, and data for only $49 contact me.

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My Journey on the 17 Day Diet – Week 1 Video

Hey everyone I just finished my Video Blog on my progress for the first week on my journey to 200lbs. Please watch it and let me know what you think.

 

Weight loss challenge Week 1 – 17 Day Diet

OK, as I mentioned earlier this week I have set a goal to lose at least 76lbs. to get me down to 200lbs. Below is a list of everything I am going to do to be successful on this journey.

1. The 17 Day Diet  downloadable PDF
2. Lose It!
3. Exercise with Andrea and Clinton
4. Post results weekly here and on youtube

My buddy Kip, who is a truck driver, introduced me to the17 Day Diet. He has been doing the 17 Day Diet for a while now and has lost over 100lbs. WOW! That is great! Keep up the good work Kip. I know you will reach your goal.

On the 17 Day Diet you can eat as much as you want of certain foods and there are two different cycles that you can be on. The reason it is called the 17 Day Diet is because each cycle lasts 17 Days.

Now I am sure you read that on the 17 Day Diet you can eat all you want of certain foods and that is correct; however, I want to get the best results and to do it as quickly as I can. Therefore, I have incorporated the Lose It! website to help track my progress and limit my calorie intake to keep me on pace to lose two pounds a week without working out. That way when I work out I will hopefully lose more that two pounds a week. We will see what happens!

I am planning on working out with my wife Andrea and my friend Clinton. This week I did not work out at all but I have plans to begin working out on Monday. More than likely we will start out walking and increase from there.

And finally I will post my progress both here, on the blog, and on youtube. I should have my youtube post up either tonight or sometime on Sunday. Once it is posted I will also post the video at the bottom of this blog.

I am also providing a free copy of the 17 Day Diet, here on my blog, for anyone who would like to do it with me and I have also provided links throughout this blog to connect to Lose It! to track your calories.

OK enough about what I am doing to track and hold myself accountable on my weight lose journey.  Let me tell you what happened this week and report my progress.

I weighed in on Tuesday 9/4/12 at 276lbs. I have cut out all fast food and Coke this week. Lose It! said that I should only eat 2182 calorie a day. Let me tell you, when you are eating salads, chicken, turkey, egg whites, Kefir, and a few things that are not on the diet like my peanut butter crackers, it is very hard to reach that 2182 caloric goal. Below is a daily list of the calories I consumed.

• Tuesday       1306
• Wednesday  1525
• Thursday      1006
• Friday           2283

Let me tell you a quick story about Friday-it was the only day I was over my calorie limit for the day. Andrea called me on the way home and asked me to pick up fried chicken for dinner. I reminded her that was not on our diet but since we both had been having an issue getting all of our calories for a day we decided to have the fried chicken.

The fried chicken was very good but when it was time for me to log my chicken on Lose It! I was shocked how many calories I had just consumed. I ate two chicken breasts, skin and all. My total calorie intake for the chicken only was a whopping 1279 calorie. That was more calorie than I had eaten all day!  Just my protein for dinner! Needless to say, I will not be eating any fried chicken any time soon. I would rather spend those calories eating more food that will keep me feeling full rather than to eat the fried chicken.

When I stepped on the scale this morning I was not really sure what it would read, especially after Friday night’s dinner. But I weighed in at 169lbs. WOW!! I could not believe it. I know most of the weight lose is due to not eating fast food or drinking soda but I am heading in the right direction.

I also wanted to mention that I am tracking all of my calories on Lose It! through my smartphone app. I am on the Solavei network. You can get unlimited talk, text and data on a 4G network for only $49 a month or LESS! That is right, I said LESS. Solavei will pay you monthly $20 for every three active members you bring over. So if you get 9 people signed up for cell service through Solavei your phone service will be free! Now that is a great deal!

For more information on Solavei click here and fill out my contact form. I will get in touch with you and help you get started.

Please follow me here and on youtube. Join my weight loss challenge and post your commitment and progress both here and on youtube. Keep an eye out for next weeks post.

I am also thinking about posting some of the meals we are making and the amount of calories each of meals are.

Check back regularly!

Job numbers and Unemployement Rate Updates for Sept,7 2012

US job numbers were just release this morning. Only 96K jobs were added in for the month of August. The US economy needs to create in the ball park of 250K jobs a month to keep on with population growth. Most media outlets were speculating the report to show job creation right around 200K. This is a serious disappointment.

On the bright side of the story the Unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% I am sure a lot of people will play the spin that the economy is going in the right direction and the decrease in the Unemployment rate as an indicator that things are looking up.

Do not be fooled! The main reason the Unemployment rate dropped was because the labor participation rate had decrease by 386K people. That mean 386K people gave up looking for a job. And if you added back in all of the people that have given up looking for a job over the pass few years our Unemployment rate would be near 11%

This is not good new for our economy. We are seeing a recovery but I would call it a flat line recovery at best if we are not getting ready to go the other direction. I pray that this is not the case. Please reply to my blog and let me know what you think about the state of our economy and the direction you think we are going.
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386,000 came out of the labor participation

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How to find a great deal on a house

I bought my home that I live in today for only $8500. Yes $8500 and it is not a piece of crap. 3/1 1700sqft with a full basement.
The house was a REO and had been vacant for about 2 years. I negotiated with the bank and made them full aware of all the issues with the home and that I was willing to pay cash and close quickly. After about two weeks of talks they agreed on $8500.
Now I will say I did have to put some money into the house and I still have to remodel my bathroom but let me be the first to tell you it is great knowing that all I have to pay on my home is the yearly property taxes and insurance.
It is a far cry from the $1700 a month mortgage I had on a smaller house in Florida.
Everyone keep your eyes open and call your locate banks for a list of REOs. If you think they have every home they have on their books listed you are seriously mistaken. Banks are only bring a few homes to the market at a time to help keep home prices stable.
There are good deals out there keep you eyes pealed.
If you have any question on how I did what I did reply to this posting and I will go into more detail.
I will also post a few pictures on some of the remodeling we did last summer before we moved in.

I will say that one of the things you will need is a good smart phone so when you are out looking at homes you can pull up different site like zillow. I have a service that pay you, Solavei! $49 a month for unlimited talk, text, and data. contact me for more information and to sign up. myerskj13@gmail.com