Anthony’s Notebook

Ran across a burger place on my run this morning, Char-Lees Burgers & Fries. Decided to try it out for lunch. Good burgers, nice people, price is right too. Two thumbs up. Check out their Yelp review.

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I have lost 55 pounds since the end of May 2009. This is just a follow-up to my previous weight-loss post. I thought I would include more data and updated pictures. Since the last post, I have lost another 10 pounds. I am about where I want to be weight-wise. If you look at my favorite foods chart, you will notice there are still a sizable number of junk foods on the list. I was hoping to have more fruits and vegetables represented, so my next goal is to have more fruits and vegetables at the top and chips and candy at the bottom or gone.

Loseit.com added more features to both their iPhone app and their website, reports being the most interesting and the source of my graphics for this post. From analyzing my data, it is apparent that December was a bad month for me. Though my exercise was fairly consistent, I consumed too many calories and I had weight gain of a couple of pounds. Once I hit my goal of 155, my BMI will be 25; still "overweight," but I will be happy with that result. If I dropped to 150, my BMI would be "normal" at 24.2. At the moment, my weight is 156 with a BMI of 25.2. My waist is ~31 inches and my height is 5'6". If I lost too much more weight, my wife would kill me because we would have to replace my wardrobe again and that would be too much on the budget. :-)

From my favorite exercises chart, you will see that weightlifting and running are my primary activities with calisthenics being the third. I substituted the calisthenics activity for recording yoga sessions in the Lose It iPhone app, because I didn't feel the yoga activity setting accurately reflected real caloric expenditures. I only added in yardwork, house cleaning, and snow shoveling when I was performing particularly hefty projects around the house. My favorite apps for helping me lose weight and keep it off are: Lose It, Run Keeper, and Fitness Builder. The combination of the three of these apps have helped me to easily lose weight and track my workouts. That's it for now, I will post more around the anniversary of starting my diet--end of May-ish.

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These are the glasses I received from Zenni Optical. They were very inexpensive at $8 for each of the "normal" frames/prescriptions and about $25 for the goggles. I needed new glasses because my obscenely expensive designer frames, Oakley and Versace from LensCrafters, both broke after less than a year. :-( My wife told me about Zenni Optical after hearing about them through the grape vine. Their website is fairly straightforward and I only had to wait about 3 weeks to get my order from Hong Kong/China. The glasses fit nicely, are fairly good quality, and the prescription seems to be spot on. Overall, I give them a solid B+. I would have given them an A, but 3 weeks is a long time to wait. Total cost: ~$50 for 3 glasses and shipping.

PS Yes, I know my glasses are kinda nerdy or BC glasses (birth control glasses, meaning I won't get laid in them). The goggles are for when I am riding my bike/motorcycle and/or running.

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Amy and I visited a used bookstore somewhat near the house today. I've been meaning to check it out for months and finally got around to it. They were a little light in the history section, but I did find this biography of Mishima in the literary biography section. I've been a fan of Mishima since high school.

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Amy and I visited the Marine Corps Museum near Quantico, Virginia today. It was really cool. The immersive multi-media was amazing.

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