I'm learning from the technology that I've invested in now my budget was 100 bucks as you know so a few weeks ago we started looking at the various technologies like my fitness tracker like my smart scale that allow me to educate myself about my health to be able to lose some weight inevitably as kind of a side effect of that and I have consistently so so whenever I tell you how much I've lost it's it's only based on consistency so if I if I hit seven point six pounds loss and then I went back to six point I'm gonna I'm not gonna tell you seven but I've been consistently beyond of the seven pounds mark now so another couple pounds since last week and I've only been doing it for a month and it's just by educating myself but part of that Jaffee is yeah eating a little well eating healthy but I've cut carbs as much as I can from my diet because I learned about the fact that I'm burning carbs instead of burning fat and it's working as really it actually is working so yeah I did like I've been using cauliflower instead of rice so ground up cauliflower yeah it's actually delicious yeah so it's like a rice substitute but there's no carbs so but it's just like a plate of vegetable instead of rice you can cut up some green onions yeah oh yes mushrooms and stuff like that I would I'll have pizza once a like I get a cheat day once a week so I took my daughter for her pizza and we had like a cheese pizza and that's fun I also have started so now I'm at that point where I've kind of not plateaued I'm still losing weight fairly consistently but fairly slowly so one of the things in we have a Biggest Loser channel on discord and marsh man had mentioned that one of the things I can do to kind of accelerate things is to to sustain exercise in such a way that okay like if I run up the stairs yeah my heart rate gets going but then it's it settles back down but right I'm done well so do things that are gonna sustain a little bit more sighs essentially so I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary like I'm not really changing my life or anything because I've got to be within reason for the way that I live yeah but you know I gave my my 12 year old a piggyback ride at while we were at Walmart that works and I'm looking and I'm like holy cow I burned a lot of calories doing that I actually kind of started to get sore legs doing that because it's like he's 12 years old he's a big big guy and and so for him it was a lot of fun it was a great time yep for me it was like a great great way to sustain that kind of heart rate so that was something and then I took my youngest who's nine I took him skating last night so we just we found an outdoor skating rink here in Barrie Ontario and we strapped on the skates for the first time in a couple of years nice and and we skated for an hour and 15 minutes or so yeah it was fun and and for him again so it for the kids it's like this is great daddy time mm-hmm for dad it's great dad child time but also at the same time I'm I'm I've got that kind of side motive of him doing things with the kids that are trying to get me to be more physically active as a computer geek because I'm for your children that this fun activity stuff is actually fun right yeah yeah yeah if you're like oh go tide and play and you don't do it yourself it's not as much fun as if you know dad's out there actually I'm sure playing around and I was also surprised like something like finding an outdoor skating rink that the city maintains like they have a Zamboni at their outdoor skate skating rink like this is serious real-deal skating and it's free which was also tax dollars pay for it so you just go and strap on your skates and go and skate as long as you want and it's open until 10:00 p.m. so for me it was like this is a really really cheap outing cost us nothing to go out so that was fantastic so you're living healthier I quite frankly I'm just not caring too much right about now but I will say fine it's very busy weekend yeah on Saturday and Sunday my watch rewarded me for beating my daily activity goals I was like yeah for the wind because I had stuff to do in a house to clean there you go it was good I will say though I think my steps are lower today Lots week 878 steps you have a competition at 4500 last week that was in competition did you know I don't cheat well no there has been some discussion and discord on what cheating really is I play video games and it ups my step count I never saying you're using this as a way to main like I'm doing with the piggyback rides I maintain that it doesn't feel like cheating to me use activity manipulation to win your contest I didn't know okay so what did you do this week oh this week I beat Crimson Fang tell us about it okay so it's like a real workout yes well in virtual yeah as you say you have to clarify though what crimson Fang it okay so I have an a5 an HTC vive and I play a game called knockout League so in that game there's a series of competitors that you fight against and I boxing I was in a boxing match and they are tough they're beasts because they're not based in reality they can do things that I cannot do oh and I was really stuck on crimson Fang like for a long time because she wears this mask and if you punched you slow the mascal bite yeah oh dear and I was and just like real box that one by based on reality the mask bite you and Mike Tyson didn't need a mask the foot and the fights last six minutes and oftentimes when I lose I lose like at the 5 minutes and 30 seconds so you don't have that staying power for the full six minutes yeah okay so I had to really work myself up to the cardio of a six minute fight I don't understand how they do rounds of this against real compare it was intense anyway so my next opponent is gonna be a long way off so was this like exclusively a cardiovascular kind of like yes like do you feel it in your in your everything no there's no there's no physical interaction right well you're holding onto the controllers right not that they have a lot of weight but you're also like swinging clicking Deacon dodging so like it's a full-body deal like it's gotta try this sometime you have to try it how long ago did she build that computer two years ago a couple years when we're supposed to have like a so however you decide I mean this is for me as part of my kind of New Year's resolution but my New Year's resolution is really just to educate myself that's how that's my approach and I am finding that by educating myself I'm learning more about how things work and I'm losing weight I've lost over seven pounds in the past month which isn't huge but for me I can see it in my face I can feel it in my body and and I'm excited about you know where I'm gonna be six months from now I feel like I'll be healthier yeah so will i pounds is huge don't know don't be like it's not huge that's huge it's a it's a great achievement for sure ya know and I feel great about it I'm not I'm not downplaying that at all I'm just like it's not like I lost 20 pounds in a week no no I'm just seven pounds I haven't done anything other than changed just my knowledge that's what about 4% for you seven pounds uh-huh don't make me do math today Jeff please don't say for me but open pouch whatever whatever it is for you I just encourage you to like check out the technologies that are available if you've ever had trouble with with if it's weight loss or if it's like keeping the New Year's resolution there's tech that's available like the fitness tracker like that scale that is encouraging me by giving the information about like BMI and stuff that I didn't know about before my metabolic age I've lost two years off my off my metabolic age so I'm now two years younger in the past month so that's huge so those kinds of things are really good encouragement in the end they'll help you to be able to achieve the goals just by educating you and and helping you to see how the things that you choose to eat and do are affecting your health so it's working for me so far so maybe it will work for you to get into Biggest Loser Biggest Loser on our discord channel so go on to category 5 TV join our discord under interact and and you'll see Biggest Loser there it's pretty fun [Music]