James Andrews

I am not a beer drinker. I don’t care for rum, or whiskey either. I like sweet drinks. My drink of choice is the “Midori Sour”. Lately I get a lot of shit about it. “Oh it’s a girls drink”. Well i am here to basically set some facts for the beer folks who seem to think their “Sam Adam’s” does more than my Midori Sours. Here is a list of information about popular beers including their Alcohol %. Beck’s is 5%, Guinness is 4.0% to 7.5%. The basic Sam Adam’s that is sold year round is 4.5%.

Basic recipe for a Midori Sour made from your local bar tender is 1oz Midori, and 2oz Sour mix. Midori on it’s own is 21% alcohol. The sour mix reduces that. We’ll use this handy dandy alochol content calculator to calculate the total. Midori is 21% AbV, so take the 1oz of midori and the 2oz of sour mix and put them in the calculator in the appropriate places. The calculator says 7%. When I pour it’s more 50%/50% instead of 33%/66% so when I am pouring it’s 10.5%. It may not be as strong as as 151 whiskey, but you beer drinking slobs have nothing over my midori unless you’re drinking Sam Adam’s Triple Block whick comes out at a 17.5% rating. so STFU.

Oh and to those Parrot Bay rum drinkers *you-know-who-you-are* Parrot Bay is 21% alcohol. Same as Midori… So unless you’re going straight for the captain which is 50% Abv, you have nothing on me, except a crappy coconut taste…. ewwwww.

I forgot to mention something that I really liked.

I went to Boloco on Tuesday, got home and went to their website, and they had a calculator to figure how many calories you just ate. McDonald’s, and Dominos also have either a calculator or nutritional facts about their food, such as service size and calories. I really liked Boloco and Dominos calculator. Make things a lot easier. Guess I should stop eating 1/2 a pizza, or at least set that for my heavy calorie night.

Growing up I could eat anything, and it would not affect my weight. I weight 110lb until near my 31st birthday. 1/2 a pizza here, 3 servings of lasagna there. Whatever I wanted to eat I could, so I did.

Now I’m at 160lb. I have a small frame, and according to everything I’ve looked at I should be at 145. 15lbs off isn’t so bad. I have friends who tried weight watchers, and have had great success, others who started the P90X and look better than ever. Now I’m not most physically active person being a computer nerd and all, so I decided to try an experiment with calorie counting, without exercise, since once I start work again I may not have time to exercise. I found 2-3 calculators and did some comparisons and all came up with similar numbers for what I should be eating.

Maintenance: 1945 Calories/day
Fat Loss: 1556 Calories/day
Extreme Fat Loss: 1280 Calories/day

Over the last 5 days I have eaten the kinds of food I like in smarter amounts. Alternating the number of calories I take in based on the above numbers. Since most parties are on the weekend I will leave the most amount of food I eat for days when I may want to indulge a little.

Sat: 1745c
Sun: 1527
Mon: 1295:
Tue: 1555
Wed: 1289

I’ve already lost 3 lb since starting the experiment. (so says the Wii fit, but I’ll say it’s 2lb because the body fluxuates). The goal is to get to 145 by the end of May, and then adjust my calorie intake so I maintain that weight.

During my experiment I have also started using a white board to display my totals and keep track of things. I really think this is a smart approach because it’s in your face, and helps remind you of your goal. I think I’d be far off my experiment if it wasn’t there.

A friend of mine who likes to appear and disappear from online existance put up a link on facebook.. I saw the link and thought “What a thing of beauty”. I opened up google and did a search on “Bacone” and found the bacone recipe at Bacon Camp. First of all “Bacon Camp”? WTFBBQ! I totally want to go to one. I’ll have to sit down and figure that out. I love bacon, so this is right down my alley.

The Bacone seems like a dream come true. An ice-cream cone like structure made out of bacon, filled with breakfast goodness, topped with southern gravy and a biscuit. Yummy yum yum yum.