Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Current Weight: 569 - Trying out for the Biggest Loser!

(My Original Blog Post: -*http://www.patrickcurl.com/?p=10)

Here are my reasons for wanting to be on the Biggest Loser:



I Need to Lose Weight!!!
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1. I've never known anything else, or experienced what it's like to be normal, this is my chance. I wore a size 50 pant size when I was 12 years old. Ever since I've had to buy my clothes at specialty big and tall shops - and my cost for a pair of pants usually runs around $70+ I'd like to be able to buy cheap clothes at Walmart for a change.

2. I rarely complete anything, I start many things but always find it hard to stick with it till the end, I think if I complete this one thing - the biggest problem in my life, then perhaps other areas of my life will be better.

3. I want a family, and my wife deserves it too. W/out losing substantial weight the Dr's have said it's highly unlikely that we will ever get pregnant. Even if we still have problems later on, we can always adopt - but unless I get fit I won't be able to really provide for a family and take care of my family.

4. I am tired of being passed over for job promotions, and being singled out as 'the lazy' one - simply because people just assume that a fat person = a lazy person. I'm also tired of lacking the self confidence to stand up for myself in many situations.

Everywhere I go people point, children make many blunt and hurtful remarks even if they're not intentional - when a 3 year old says, 'Mommy, he's so fat' it really hurts inside - and you can't really say anything though I'd like to give the parent an earful...

Next November I turn 30, this is my chance, possibly my only chance to make the next 30 years of my life something way better than the first 30.

I want more than anything to be able to ride a rollercoaster again - something I haven't been able to do since I was 16. I want to experience all the things life has to offer before it passes me by. Life is too short to spend it trapped in a fat body - I need this so bad.

I'm so ready for this change - Please pray for me this weekend as I audition for the Biggest Loser. I appreciate it immensely.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

New Year, New Focus: Losing Weight, and going Green!

(My Original Blog Post: -*http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/new-year-new-focus-losing-weight-and-going-green/)
Ali Vincent
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In times past this blog has been a blog about blogging. I've also blogged about marketing, and pretty much anything that mattered to me at the time. I'm finding now isn't the best time in the world to be starting a blog to make money.

Sure I'm still making some money - not nearly as much as I used to, especially being banned by google because somebody clicked on too many links from my page - none of my fault.

I've made a new plan or goal in life - first off I am spending 6 -8 hours working out 3 days a week, and changing my diet. I've lost 75 pounds since January 12th, 2009. (Yes that's under a month but I have a lot of weight to lose - I started weighing 660 lbs, and now weigh 577).

This is my primary goal right now - my wife works in Private duty home health, I am currently between jobs - other than my blog, which I have neglected a bit as of late. These days just about everyone is either between jobs or knows somebody else who is.

Why - being between jobs isn't such a bad thing - for me I have always had excuses for why I couldn't lose weight, or workout. My main excuse - was I have a lot of work, not enough energy, and not enough time.

Well - my wife took that excuse away agreeing to work, while I workout - for every hour she works I spend an hour in the gym - for the most part anyways. We are also changing our diets together and eating healthier. I have no excuses now to losing weight and it's working like a charm - almost as good as if I were accepted on the Biggest Loser, which I've always dreamed of being on.

This year I've decided I can wait until I get accepted on the Biggest Loser - and maybe die in the process or I can be my own biggest loser. I spend 6-8 hours x 3 days per week using water weights while swimming, water walking, and water kickboxing.

I'm also drinking 1 gallon+ water per day, and cut out 90% of soda - I'll have a coke zero every now and again but mostly drink water.

My other focus - I'm going back to school to get a degree in Sustainability(that's green technology, green science, green business, basically anything green or eco related.) With my desire to go into green technologies as a career - I've decided to change my blog's theme a bit. From now on this blog will feature a lot more information on going green and being an eco-friendly blogger.

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Thursday, February 5, 2009

Save

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/save/)

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Soda and other flavored or sweetened beverages are a luxury. They are also an expense that if removed can save you not only thousands of dollars, but also thousands of calories, and 10+ pounds per year.

The average american drinks 50 gallons or so of soda per year. The average obese american or overweight American can drink as much as 500 gallons, and many healthy people drink 0 gallons.

I myself on some days could drink as much as 2-3 liters per day. (Think 3 large cups at McDonalds is equal to 3 liters.) Some days I could drink a lot more.

Let's do some math.
Let's say you eat at fast food restauarants 4 times per week, and you upsize your meals. That's 208 liters of soda per year. It's also roughly 312 dollars (at $1.50 each), and 79872 calories (at 384 calories per liter of soda). 3500 calories is equal to one pound, so that's the equivalent of 22 lbs gained per year just from soda.

Let's say beyond eating at McDonalds you eat at nicer restaurants maybe twice a week, like Olive Garden, or Applebees. You order a coke, and get 3 refills of a 12 oz glass. Now you're spending a little more per drink - about $2.50 on average, and you drink about 36 oz. In a year you would spend $260, drink another 39900 calories, gaining another 12 lbs.

Do you drink soda at home? What about during football games? What about at parties? At School?
This is just how much money you spend by yourself - what about the rest of your family - your spouse, and any children?

Using the example above in a two person family, just a husband and wife, if you ordered water every time you eat out, you could save the following:

$1144 saved.
239544 Calories saved.
68 lbs saved.

On top of that you'll add years to your life.

Some other good ways to save money is to stop going to places like starbucks if you need coffee brew it at home and save money. You can spend thousands a year on latte's and it's just wasted money. If you eat out religiously every week, try taking one week per month and having a spending freeze - spend no money except on bills and absolute necessities, you will find yourself saving hundreds more.

Times are tough right now, and American's are more overweight than ever, just drinking water at restaurants can not only save your life and make you more attractive but it can save you from financial ruin.

I myself have lost over 80 lbs since January 1st 2009, by eating healthier, now's a great time to eat healthy, and you can save money by doing it as well. It's a win-win proposition.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas to all There's a Blog in my Soup Readers!

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/ho-ho-ho-merry-christmas-to-all-theres-a-blog-in-my-soup-readers/)
Well it has been a long eventful year, as far as historical years it has definitely been one for the record books.

From the recession, to the presidential elections and more. This will definitely be a year many people remember for years to come.

I would like to take a moment and give a gratituitous holiday greeting to all of my readers, friends, and fellow bloggers. This blog is a major success thanks to all of you, without your support I could never be a full-time blogger.

I appreciate all that you have done for me, whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or another holiday this season I wish you the best in your celebrations, and hope that everything goes safely for you this season.

I also wish you a happy new year, and good luck!
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Question for mormons: Is this bad? Motab vs Linkin' Park?

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/question-for-mormons-is-this-bad-motab-vs-linkin-park/)
Just a thought question that was posed at the Ward Christmas Party tonight - somebody asked the question do they have to like the mormon tabernacle choir if they're LDS, and I was thinking to myself, ya know - I would much rather be at a Linkin Park concert than motab anyday lol.

What say you? Is that bad for a good little mormon boy or girl? Can a Petey priesthood disavow affections for Mormon Tabernacle Choir?

I'd like your opinion - especially if you're LDS/Mormon.
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BlogContestSite Now Tweets!

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/blogcontestsite-now-tweets/)
We'd all love to get our hands on the latest greatest gadget on the market. I myself would love a 42 inch tv or larger, can I afford it? Probably not. I'd also love to win an iphone, ipod, macbook, netbook, etc... I'd love to win anything - who wouldn't?

Blog contests are great ways to win great prizes. You not only win though, you help smaller blogs get their feet off. It's a win-win situation.

BlogContestSite.com has been around a long time. It started out as one of the first blogs to host blog contest information on the internet.

It has sinced moved into a different direction where you can add your own contests to the site, and vote other contests up and down and win in the progess.

I am a little biased being the co-owner of Blog Contest Site, but I believe it's headed for greatness. I have relaunched the new design using DRIGG for Drupal. I will be giving prizes to users with the most Karma - getting karma is easy just vote, and leave comments on contests.

You can also follow blogcontests on twitter and get updated every 30 mins on new contests that are running!
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About being Google Slapped and Matt Cutts being a Nazi.

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.theresabloginmysoup.com/about-being-google-slapped-and-matt-cutts-being-a-nazi/)

Matt Cutts Crush, SEO Comic
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Does Google PR even matter anymore?

Nobody knows when or how it's decided, save a few select programmers at google. Does it even matter anymore?

I have 0 PR after having my blog up for nearly 2 years. I have many incoming links, I have a google index of 3,180, an alexa rank of 250,000 give or take, daily traffic equal to about 700 hits per day, and a yahoo index of 11,400.

My blog is also helping me earn over $1000 monthly working from home on a consecutive basis.

I'm at the point where whether I write or not I get traffic - when I do write an article I will spike and get between 2-4k hits on those days.

Each of my blog posts are pinged to many directories, and announced via ping.fm to all my social circles.

Yet, I have never sold or bought links. I have never blatantly spammed my links. I have never done anything to try and gain incoming links in a blackhat manner. All my incoming links are perfectly organic.

So, why do I have a 0 PR?

I would love Matt Cutts to write to me and give me a good reason. I'd also like a good reason why this site has been adsense banned, not that I need adsense I make more off adbrite, and honestly think it's probably better going with a different company than google.

Especially when google hires Nazis like Matt Cutts and other programmers who basically have the power to say who can or can't stay in their program based on stupid reasons, and won't answer why.

It's like the statement JP Morgan Chase Bank made today about the bailout:

"We've lent some of it. We've not lent some of it. We've not given any accounting of, 'Here's how we're doing it,'" said Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for JPMorgan Chase, which received $25 billion in emergency bailout money. "We have not disclosed that to the public. We're declining to."

Lets change this to Matt Cutts of Google (I attack Matt Cutts because he's the PR arm and well known, maybe he won't like being attacked and will answer my questions if not then he truly is a Nazi and I'm calling him out on it):

"We've slapped some sites, we've not slapped a few, we're not giving any accounting of who we have slapped, or why.  We don't care if people's businesses are hurt by it - we're google we can do anything. Oh and by the way about that "Do no harm" thing...haha just kidding!"

With all this said - the funny thing is I may be google slapped when it comes to PR but I do still get good traffic from the search engine arm - I just have no PR juice, maybe that will change - I'd be happy to write a retraction if I ever get an answer as to why my PR is still 0, and my adsense account was deactivated.

Do I have high hopes? Nah - maybe someday though Matt Cutts will see this and look into it, maybe he googles his name every now and again, maybe he will see me ranking high for the term Matt Cutts is a Nazi.

One last thing I use Nazi, not as white supremist, but as totalitarian. Hitler had full control, and could do as he pleased. Those at google think they have the same power when it comes to the internet - I'd love to see them get slapped with an anti-trust lawsuit by the USA - it's only a matter of time.
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