50 lbs of Beef Jerky
Well - I have hit a good little groove. Each week I have been losing a pound or two. It has been a good little stretch and I want to continue to build on that momentum until the Christmas break. The bonus is that I am on track for all of my goals.
I am currently at 211 lbs and have been under my Festivus goal of 215 lbs for the last couple weeks. That is great news for me. That was really my BIG goal so I am happy to be past it with time to spare. This also puts me on track to be under 200 lbs by my birthday.
I have also been doing weights at least twice a week, sometimes three. I think this is really helping boost my metabolism and I feel like I am starting to shape my body a little bit. All in all I am feeling really great about how things have been going.
I best moment may be a few weeks ago when I went to the dentist. If you don't know I may have the best and nicest dentist in the world. Her name is Dr. Popat and she has an office in North Burnaby. I have had her as a dentist for about the last 5 years so she has seen me at my biggest in the last few years.
Anyways - I was sitting in the dentist chair waiting for her to come in for my cleaning and she comes around the corner and exclaims - "Hello Duncan, It is great to see you", and before I could reply she followed with simple, "and WHAT have you been doing to lose all of that weight!"
I giggled and we discussed my routines and she asked how much I lost. I said in the neighbourhood of 50 lbs. She just stopped working and practically pushed my out of the chair. She was very excited for me. I just smiled. Later during the cleaning she just randomly stopped cleaning for a moment and just simply said without provocation, "50 lbs!! That is awesome. That is like trying to carry five 10 lbs bags of potatos out of Safeway!" I just giggled. What else could I say?
That simple statement, 'Five 10 lbs bags of potatos', made me realize how much 50 lbs really is. That really makes me think about how much extra weight I was carrying around and really how much extra I am still carrying around. I also started to think about other 50 lbs equivalents there are. What I did is typed "50 lbs of" into google to see what sort of results it came up with.
Here are some of the results:
"50 lbs. of steel scissors" It would be great if these were all seized from kindergarten classes that were tired of tearing up paper with safety scissors.
"50 lbs. of coke seized in separate vehicle stops at border" and this was also followed by another link that started "50 lbs of Marijuana found during traffic stop" so assume this to be a common weight of drug dealers. This would be unrelated to "50 lbs of potash" even though it sounds similar. I think this might make for an interesting trip across the border.
"What do you have in the truck sir?"
"Ummm...50lbs of potash. Is there a problem."
"What are you planning on doing with that potash."
"Ummmm...I have no idea."
"Ok, go ahead. Have a safe trip."
Another quick potash fact: Canada is the world's largest producer of Potash. Bet you didn't know that.
"50 lbs of water is 6 gallons" Now you know that as well. It may come up someday.
"What to do with 50 lbs. of squash?" - I thought this was a very valid question. This was followed by "What do you do with 50 pounds of silly putty?" - Again a valid question and they have an answer - "Why, you roll it up in to a huge ball and toss it off a building, of course." But I have a follow-up. How does one obtain 50 lbs of silly putty? Oh yeah, I have a link to this action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckcOfb46IKs
"50 lbs of horse manure is not more valuable than 5 ounces of gold, but it does weigh more." I thought this was one of life's great observations along with the sun is hot and water is wet.
"Enter to Win 50 lbs. of Fresh Lobster!" You know, there are so many nights that I sit at home and think - "Damn, if I only had 50lbs of fresh lobster. This recipe is RUINED!"
"How much is 50 lbs of pennys?" Well, the answer is 50 lbs. I didn't even have to think that long about it. I did have to do some long division but this should be correct.
and this was my favorite that I found so far:
"If you could have 50 lbs of anything other than money, what would it be?"
someone replied in the comments with "I am too lazy now to convert lbs into kgs. So if it's a reasonable weight I would choose a cat perhaps"
someone else replied to that with "you could probably get 4-5 cats for 50 lbs or a dog and a cat or maybe a small dog, two cats and a monkey."
and then this last comment;
"diamonds. Or beef Jerky."
That's right. After quickly answering with diamonds they just as quickly thought it over and decided, no, beef jerky might be just as great as diamonds. I thought that was priceless.
I am currently at 211 lbs and have been under my Festivus goal of 215 lbs for the last couple weeks. That is great news for me. That was really my BIG goal so I am happy to be past it with time to spare. This also puts me on track to be under 200 lbs by my birthday.
I have also been doing weights at least twice a week, sometimes three. I think this is really helping boost my metabolism and I feel like I am starting to shape my body a little bit. All in all I am feeling really great about how things have been going.
I best moment may be a few weeks ago when I went to the dentist. If you don't know I may have the best and nicest dentist in the world. Her name is Dr. Popat and she has an office in North Burnaby. I have had her as a dentist for about the last 5 years so she has seen me at my biggest in the last few years.
Anyways - I was sitting in the dentist chair waiting for her to come in for my cleaning and she comes around the corner and exclaims - "Hello Duncan, It is great to see you", and before I could reply she followed with simple, "and WHAT have you been doing to lose all of that weight!"
I giggled and we discussed my routines and she asked how much I lost. I said in the neighbourhood of 50 lbs. She just stopped working and practically pushed my out of the chair. She was very excited for me. I just smiled. Later during the cleaning she just randomly stopped cleaning for a moment and just simply said without provocation, "50 lbs!! That is awesome. That is like trying to carry five 10 lbs bags of potatos out of Safeway!" I just giggled. What else could I say?
That simple statement, 'Five 10 lbs bags of potatos', made me realize how much 50 lbs really is. That really makes me think about how much extra weight I was carrying around and really how much extra I am still carrying around. I also started to think about other 50 lbs equivalents there are. What I did is typed "50 lbs of" into google to see what sort of results it came up with.
Here are some of the results:
"50 lbs. of steel scissors" It would be great if these were all seized from kindergarten classes that were tired of tearing up paper with safety scissors.
"50 lbs. of coke seized in separate vehicle stops at border" and this was also followed by another link that started "50 lbs of Marijuana found during traffic stop" so assume this to be a common weight of drug dealers. This would be unrelated to "50 lbs of potash" even though it sounds similar. I think this might make for an interesting trip across the border.
"What do you have in the truck sir?"
"Ummm...50lbs of potash. Is there a problem."
"What are you planning on doing with that potash."
"Ummmm...I have no idea."
"Ok, go ahead. Have a safe trip."
Another quick potash fact: Canada is the world's largest producer of Potash. Bet you didn't know that.
"50 lbs of water is 6 gallons" Now you know that as well. It may come up someday.
"What to do with 50 lbs. of squash?" - I thought this was a very valid question. This was followed by "What do you do with 50 pounds of silly putty?" - Again a valid question and they have an answer - "Why, you roll it up in to a huge ball and toss it off a building, of course." But I have a follow-up. How does one obtain 50 lbs of silly putty? Oh yeah, I have a link to this action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckcOfb46IKs
"50 lbs of horse manure is not more valuable than 5 ounces of gold, but it does weigh more." I thought this was one of life's great observations along with the sun is hot and water is wet.
"Enter to Win 50 lbs. of Fresh Lobster!" You know, there are so many nights that I sit at home and think - "Damn, if I only had 50lbs of fresh lobster. This recipe is RUINED!"
"How much is 50 lbs of pennys?" Well, the answer is 50 lbs. I didn't even have to think that long about it. I did have to do some long division but this should be correct.
and this was my favorite that I found so far:
"If you could have 50 lbs of anything other than money, what would it be?"
someone replied in the comments with "I am too lazy now to convert lbs into kgs. So if it's a reasonable weight I would choose a cat perhaps"
someone else replied to that with "you could probably get 4-5 cats for 50 lbs or a dog and a cat or maybe a small dog, two cats and a monkey."
and then this last comment;
"diamonds. Or beef Jerky."
That's right. After quickly answering with diamonds they just as quickly thought it over and decided, no, beef jerky might be just as great as diamonds. I thought that was priceless.
posted by Duncan McAllister at 7:25 p.m.
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