Weight Mate David Ginsburg

Hey mates...

It's David here. it's the evening of February 6th, as this daily accountability podcast definitely has missed some days I took some more time off for myself. Plus, we were hecka busy these past couple days. So much so that there's been not really time to meal prep. Our weekend went fast. Now here I am on a Monday night, getting this episode out to you!

I feel like January was a learning curve. I wanted to try to do a lot. Maybe a lot more than I should have. Maybe I should have focused one one thing, like meal prepping, and added more stuff in. Regardless, it's February now. And this month, I'll be working on keeping myself accountable.

My goal for the rest of this month are:

Meal prep. Or in the absence of meal prep, make the right decisions when eating. No pizzas, no pastas, no crackers and snacks and things like that. I have the right things at the house. I just have to choose them. I think sometimes that's the hardest thing, right? It's easy to just grab some crackers or chips. It's harder to take 5-10 minutes to make something that will be 10x better and healthier. It's that whole convenience/fast food thing. I want it now.

I've been making wrong decisions. Now, it's time to make right decisions. Better decisions. And I hope you'll join me in this goal, mates. Let me know what you're struggling with. Share some of those easy, go to snacks that actually are healthy/better than those chips and crackers.

Thanks for listening, and sticking with me, mates. You can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/weightmatepodcast/ or you can email me at weightmatepodcast at gmail dot com

Hey mates, it's David. Today is Friday, January 27th. 

It's been a few days. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Or in this case, the lack of podcast episodes.

I'll be honest and up front. I got burned out. Especially trying to say the same thing every day, but in different ways. It's tough. 

Especially when, at times, I just don't have the energy to do things. I want to meal prep, but I also want to relax and just have downtime. I want to walk, but I've got homework to review with the kids, or doing things around the house. I know, I know...  some of these things are excuses. I'm good at excuses and making reasons as to why I couldn't do things.

It's been 27 days since I started this with well meaning intentions and a goal, and with a positive mindset. I tried to keep that positivty, but sometimes, I just can't hold it. A lot of times it's easier to keep doing the things I've always done rather than do the hard things to change.

However, I made a commitment to myself. While I may miss days here and there... I will come back. I will continue to hold myself accountable and also try not to beat myself up too badly. There's 365 days in the year, and we're only 27 days in. Baby steps are still steps, and we... I.... will make progress towards my weight loss goals.

Thank you for still listening to me, and being here. I appreciate you all. 

You can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/weightmatepodcast/or you can email me at weightmatepodcast at gmail dot com

Hey mates, it's David. It's January 23rd and I'm re-recording this episode and releasing it on the 24th. So, a time skip, if you will.

I needed sleep, and apparently, that meant that my brain was like "Nope, not going to do anything right now." So I went to bed about an hour earlier than normal. I scrapped the episode that was supposed to have been released.

I'll be honest with everyone. I was tired. I've been running on 4 hours of sleep for several days, or weeks. Something like that. And I know how sleep is very important with you know... everything. Even weight loss. Mental health. Everything. So, I got some extra sleep.

Yesterday, the 23rd was weigh in day. And what I expected to happen, happened. I stayed the same. With the amount of running around we've been doing, eating out at restaurants, not eating until late, not having meal prepped and generally just being caught up in life, nothing progressed downward. On the plus side, I didn't gain anything either. Unless you count be tired, somewhat cranky at times, and in need of sleep.

This week is looking like it'll be a lite version of last week. A few appointments, but in all honestly, I should be able to prep and plan today and tomorrow. We have stuff in the house and I'm going to make sure to use as much as I can and knock things out.

So, the goals for this week are as follows: Meal prep, check grocery store prices, eat better, and start walking to build up to a mile.

What are some of your goals that you have? How was your past week? Let me know. You can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/weightmatepodcast/ or you can email me at weightmatepodcast at gmail dot com.

Thanks for listening mates.

Hey mates, it's David, back with you on this Sunday, the 22nd!

Today, the family and I went to the local renfaire. Like I'd said previously, we hadn't been to a renfaire since 2009 or so. So we went today, when the temperatures looked like they'd be good... but they hit about mid 80s and I got a sunburn. Most likely waiting for the joust, since it was out in the open and mid-day when the sun was beating down on us. Florida should not be mid 80s in January.

I will say that a positive of the renfaire is logging a little over 8500 steps, which averages about 4ish miles of walking. And that's a good thing. It's something that I will continue to build on this week by walking each day. Building my body up to endure more, and just getting exercise in general.

Food wasn't too bad of an issue today. We went to the main area that had food and chose the stall that could accomodate all our food options. I ended up geting a scotch egg. A scotch egg is a hardboiled egg, wrapped in sausage. They fried theirs, but other places sometimes will bake them. It was a good protein on protein meal, minus the frying of course. But it was a better decision than say, pizza, or chicken tenders.

I also ended up at our Publix again to get some things for the week. I still haven't made it to the other stores in the area to price compare and take notes, but that's coming. I'll also be meal prepping tomorrow for the week, with the usual culprits, chicken.... and eggs.

I hope you all had a good weekend. Tomorrow, we check the scale to see where we land! Thanks for listening and being my mate.

You can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/weightmatepodcast/ or you can email me at weightmatepodcast at gmail dot com

Hey there mates, it's David here. It's Saturday, January 21st. 

Tomorrow, we're going to a RenFaire for the first time in awhile and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm also thinking about joining a bowling league to at least get a bit of exercise in. That's still up in the air though.

I wanted to take a moment and talk about eating out. Oops, I did it again. I'm neither Britney, or wearing her red catsuit. But that's neither here nor there.

Eating out is tough. I love food. I love tasty food, and when I go out to eat, I want to eat something that I cannot make at home. So you'll never see me ordering chicken tenders, basic burgers, most breakfast food. I can do all that. You can find me ordering juicy steaks, or dishes that have what I believe are complicated sauces. Things like that.

This makes it tough when I'm watching what i'm eating and trying not to over eat. I want to make those good choices, but as this past week has shown... I have not yet mastered giving those good, tasty choices up. Today was no different. I went to a restaurant today and ordered a korean spicy steak. And it was good. SO good. But I did a few things I shouldn't have done. I should have cut it in half and brought one half home. Instead, I ate it all. I also ate the noodles that came with it. Noodles, breads, carbs... they're all a big no no. And while I activey have been striving to avoid them...  sometimes they just come after me and are like "Eat us, you'll love us" And so I did.

Soemthing my parents talked to me about when going to restaurants is that they usually look at the menu ahead of time so that way they know what they're going to pick, and that's that. Unfortunately, at times, we're driving around and deciding spur of the moment to go somewhere. However, I am going to set a micro goal of making sure to choose things that are better for me. Instead of the noodles, I should have had a noodle replacement - like veggie zoodles. Something like that. 

I tend to beat myself up a lot when it comes to these mistakes and slip ups. But as long as I'm learning from them, that's all I can do.

I hope you all have had a great day. Thanks for listening to me and being there for me, mates.

You can find me on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/weightmatepodcast/ or you can email me at weightmatepodcast at gmail dot com

Hey mates, it's January 20th. TGIF. It's Friday!

Not much is going on over here. Since it was a Friday, we do Friday Family movie nights. We used to do Uber Eats every Friday, but now, whoever has the movie pick now picks a meal for me to make. So today, my middle kiddo chose stuffed shells. The filling was SO good and the meat sauce turned out well too.

This weekend I'm hoping to get to a few of the other supermarkets to start checking prices and working out this grocery store wackadoodleness with prices. I'll also be doing some food prep Sunday night. We're going to a RenFaire on Sunday and that should be a good time. We haven't been to one in about 13 years.

Since I still have some listener questions, I wanted to do a round 2 on them!

What's my opinions of meds that help you lose weight? Am I open to it? And would I ever try it if nothing is working?

I think whatever works for people. Who am I to tell people what they should or shouldn't do. Heck, I had gastric sleeve surgery. I'm not sure if I can do weight loss meds, but I don't think it'd be for me unless I really did the research and made sure it was ok.

Am I open to trying out different diet methods besides counting calories, if my listeners recommended it to you?

I feel like I'm open to everything, and am always interested in getting tips, tricks, and new methods that maybe I don't know. Depending on what it was, I'd be interested in trying things out.

What past diet methods have I tried, and did they work?

Well, besides weight watchers, I've not really done any specific methods. Just putting my food into apps and trying to count calories and macros. We did the beachbody shakes for awhile. I also did bariatric protein shakes after the gastric sleeve surgery. But I needed to move on from those to get protein from real sources. 

Let me know what diet methods you have tried. What has worked for you? Let me know on my instagram page at https://www.instagram.com/weightmatepodcast/ or you can email me at weightmatepodcast at gmail dot com

Thanks for listening and being a mate!