Speedo Tip Of The Week
Tip: If you want washboard abs and glutes you can bounce a quarter off of, you might consider working somewhere other than Joyent. 
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Of course, another route to bulging biceps and calves the size of baseballs is to simply put the Manhattan down and order a chef salad in lieu of the Mixed Grill which is what five of the Joyent staffers have decided to do, starting today.
Photo credit Michah
Dave, Jason, Kristie, Pete, and Shane have all kicked in cold hard cash ($500 each) for the bragging rights of who can lose the biggest percentage of weight in five weeks, with the winner taking the entire pot on June 28th.
And while it is no secret we have our fair share of ‘big boned’ people working at our little slice of heaven here, it was never more clear than at the weigh in yesterday. Once Shane took the bottled water and the roll of duct tape (cheater) out of his pants, we learned our combined weight totaled 1153.6 pounds. Wow. More than a 1/2 of a ton. Five (5) people. Not sure this is something to be proud of, but it surely is a conversation starter…
So, wish us luck – and please excuse us a bit if some of us get a little crabby over the next five weeks. Don’t take it personally, we are just carb deficient. And while some of the other (skinnier) staff are taking side bets to see who will wimp out first – I prefer to stay on the positive side of things. We need to do it. We have to do it. I mean, it would be nice if we could all get in an elevator together someday.
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Go take a look a the book When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair , it comes highly recommended and really helped a family member.
Greeeaaattt…
Just make sure you get our A200’s out first. lol
And a friendly tip (I’m sure you’ll get 100’s), ipod + walking = great way to loose weight.
I want to cheer youall on. In fact, I think I’ll create a parallel contest, with me as the only entrant:
If I lose 25 pounds by the end of summer, Joyent will out of the goodness of its collective heart, give me a small Accellerator*
*Prize depends on willingness of Joyent to be snookered into something like this. Your mileage may vary. Metric pounds only acceptable in Canada.
You all should look into the South Beach diet. It’s pretty good.
Mixed Grill – I had something like that for Breakfast known affectionately as the Full Irish – mind you I am in Ireland – which is not known for South Beach like diets.
Can we run a pool, person closest to the corrent weight lost in pounds or percentage terms gets a small Accelerator.
I think they will loose 125 Lbs as a group in 5 weeks.
Ante Up.
I lost 40lbs in 6 months last year (210 -> 170) by swimming and not eating crap.
The big secret for me was to have a very consistent routine. Swimming 3 days a week didn’t work for me. It made it too easy to say, “Well, I’ll skip today but go tomorrow even though I don’t usually swim on Thursdays.” And then I would realize I hadn’t been in a week.
Going every weekday morning made the rare skip-days seem really weird.
Same goes with eating. I ate basically the same thing for breakfast and lunch: breakfast was shredded wheat (the brick kind), and lunch was a frozen bowl of stuff from Trader Joe’s (a good balance of healthy and fast and cheap). My pre-dinner diet was an extremely steady 500-600 calories. As the weight peeled off I got more and more relaxed about dinner, but breakfast and lunch stayed the same.
Also, at the beginning I learned to embrace feeling hungry (I was hungry constantly for 2 weeks). And stopped drinking. Booze adds up really, really fast.
I probably drank 1,000 calories at your happy-hour thing at Railsconf on Saturday. Good times!
From the weigh in.
Very good idea, and it’s things like this that remind me that the spirit of Textdrive has survived the buyout and name change.
Good luck to all involved. My money’s on David, though. Not sure why, it just is.
Man. Hoffman looks faaaaaaatttt in the weigh-in picture.
I’ve lost 25# since 1/20 (with a major plateau lately). The Biggest hint: eat 6 small meals a day. 200-300 calories each every three hours. My “mix” is 55% carbs (but NO, not French bread or white pasta), 20% fat and 25% protein for the day.
FitDay will make it easier to track these kinds of proportions.
Good luck.
Y’all are s’posed ta weigh in nekkid. But do not post pictures of that.
hahaha, good luck everybody!
Good luck everyone! I am sure that with enough support form each other (and of course the bonus within reach) you will all get a good result!
When working as an admin in a software house I used to get fat too, weighting 75kg for 170cm height. And don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t sitting all day long, I used to swim 3 days a week and gym 1 day a week, but still I ate too much, and a lot of sugar/carbs foods. Then I discovered the metabolic diet which lets you understand how you can get lean eating proteine foods, and I got as slim as 57kg, now I happily mantain low weight and good lean muscles since 4 years =)
Good luck with your diet!
you need a diet!
The spirit of the race is great, and it can be a real motivator. One caution, though; somebody might take the competition really seriously and dump 10 pounds in a week, which is not healthy, especially if it continues all 3 weeks.
One way I did it a while back was to run it like a road rally. Everybody sets their goals based on good healthy advice (maybe 2 lbs/week give or take), and see who tracks best to that. Another way would be to race who can lose the biggest percentage of weight _toward_their_goal_.
Go for it!