I took Sunday off (no exercise) to give the old body a chance to recoup. My wife had to go to Philadelphia on business so the little ones and I took her to the airport in the morning. Its always-weird saying goodbye to someone you love at the airport. In the back of my mind a little voice goes off (you know the one that whispers of impending doom) I guess I just have a thing about air travel because I never hear the voice for car trips.

I took the kids to see the movie "Elf" in the afternoon. The film was rated PG (not sure why)and the kids loved it.
It had lots of gags for moms and dads. I thought Will Ferrell gave a great preformance overall and had me laughing out loud several times.( the 4 food groups) Great preformances by Bob Newhart (papa elf) and Ed Asner (santa) moved the quick paced film along. Peter Dinklage's part brought tears to my eyes (hilarious). Ferrell & Zooey Deschanel (the girl can sing) do a great duet of the 1949 classic - Baby Its Cold Outside (Frank Loesser)
After I finished seeing this one I want to hang some Christmas lights.
A good family day at the movies!

I have read over 200 articles on dieting, I have listened to people talk about great diets, I have tried a numerous diets. I now know what the perfect diet is....

Diets for the sole purpose of loosing weight are crap. They don't work.
How did I come to this conclusion.
All diets are about restricting/controlling your food intake.
People love to eat food.
People have to eat food or they will die.
One of the easiest things to do in this world for anyone is to eat something delicious.
"Variety is the spice of life" Where can you find variety, in the kitchen.
In today’s society people want everything immediately, including weight loss. The media's obsessive coverage on obesity, what we think a perfect body looks like and North America's self loathing image of self = a multi-billion dollar a year industry for diet book writers, instant weight loss programs and useless nutritional diet aids.

"Americans spent $32 billion in 1990 for weight control products and services to help attain our dream bodies."

Now if you really want to loose weight and keep it off you need to change your lifestyle and exercise.
Weights and cardio, yes sit-ups, pushups, and brisk walks every day, Day in Day out with 100% effort.
Here is the best part. The harder you exercise the more you can eat.
When you exercise you create lean muscle mass (think of lean muscle like muscle that is not marbled with fat i.e. a T-bone steak). Muscles burn calories even when your sleeping, the more lean muscle the more calories you burn.
So, Exercise = fat burn + muscle creation. More muscle needs more fuel = more fat burn = weight loss.
You don't have to be a body builder to make this work.
You do have to commit to an exercise plan and give up an hour of TV/internet every night.
Don’t believe? Try it.
1 hour a day cardio (walk, run, swim, ride a bike, what ever), sit-ups and pushups every day, Give it 110% and eat what ever you want
In 6 weeks you will loose fat, Guaranteed. In 12 weeks you will loose more fat, Guaranteed.

Exercise
15 min bike
10 Min walk
20 Min Run (new record)
Weights
30 Min Swim

Diet
Breakfast
Lots of Harvest crunch with skim milk
Lunch
Huge Salad and more salad.
Dinner
Grilled cheese and Vegetable soup
Snack
Chicken, more salad, macaroni salad, and a bunch of little chocolate bars and some ice cream.

I have finally lost 5 LBS
(I need new jeans though, all my old ones keep falling down around my ankles)