<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614</id><updated>2012-02-16T00:26:42.083-08:00</updated><category term='cooking'/><category term='anxiety'/><category term='exercise'/><category term='addiction'/><category term='running'/><category term='food'/><category term='weight loss'/><category term='eating'/><category term='urge'/><category term='will power'/><category term='self-improvement'/><category term='hockey'/><category term='coffee'/><category term='winter'/><category term='depression'/><category term='blog'/><category term='drugs'/><category term='misc'/><category term='meth'/><title type='text'>Submit  the  Urge</title><subtitle type='html'>I explore the adventure, ups and downs included, of my quest to lose 30 lbs!</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>10</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614.post-8956026485905308913</id><published>2007-03-29T21:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-29T21:11:07.880-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Food for 3/29</title><summary type='text'>I had    1 egg and cheese on a bagel   1 cup of caffeinated coffe   1 egg salad sandwich on rye   1 cranberry juice   1 ready made Indian entree w/ nan bread   2 vodka tonics   1 packet of banana nut oatmeal     two crackers with cream cheeseRan four miles today</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/8956026485905308913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3176857223504197614&amp;postID=8956026485905308913' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/8956026485905308913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/8956026485905308913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/2007/03/food-for-329.html' title='Food for 3/29'/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614.post-576827817162502891</id><published>2007-03-29T07:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-29T07:44:09.538-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Temptation, and we're not talking about the group</title><summary type='text'>In the Feeling Good Handbook, author David Burns describes temptations to do maladaptive things such as using drugs and alcohol as well as binge eating as a means of regulating one's moods and emotions.Compulsive eaters are like drug addicts in a sense, constantly seeking a momentary refuge and repreive in habit.A common habit that people with poor eating habits have (myself included) is to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/576827817162502891/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3176857223504197614&amp;postID=576827817162502891' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/576827817162502891'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/576827817162502891'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/2007/03/temptation-and-were-not-talking-about.html' title='Temptation, and we&apos;re not talking about the group'/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614.post-5589868328304264361</id><published>2007-03-28T19:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-28T20:07:02.771-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I was sedentary as a rock today. My body is reeling from Sunday's wonderful run and the horrid sleep I had the last two nights. I tried to lay down after work and then get up to run but that wasn't going to happen. It was that sleep that feels like a rock. So, instead, I laid in bed for a while, got up and got some Ambien from one of my hookups! Tonight I'd like to listen to the BBC and fall </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/5589868328304264361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3176857223504197614&amp;postID=5589868328304264361' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/5589868328304264361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/5589868328304264361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/2007/03/i-was-sedentary-as-rock-today.html' title=''/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614.post-8722472101611513387</id><published>2007-03-27T09:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-27T09:12:03.697-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Feeling Good</title><summary type='text'>I just realized that yesterday's blog never saved. I haven't had any reads on this page yet. It's alright. I'm going to be brief until later, but let me begin with what I've eaten today.It all begins with insomnia. Despite sleeping maybe five hours on Sunday night and into Monday morning, I slept even less last night. I felt extremely hungry--legitimate hunger--So I helped myself to a grilled </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/8722472101611513387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3176857223504197614&amp;postID=8722472101611513387' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/8722472101611513387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/8722472101611513387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/2007/03/feeling-good.html' title='Feeling Good'/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfl4C5lhp-w/RglBzNwo0iI/AAAAAAAAAAU/7Fa2Hsp4_ro/s72-c/feelinggood.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614.post-4572970324075381955</id><published>2007-03-25T17:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-25T17:27:09.852-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Getting Zen while running</title><summary type='text'>I missed Holy Mass tonight because of several reasons, but in a sense my spirituality hit reached a whole know plane today. At quarter to 6, I went for a run through my hometown.    The only way that I can describe the whole event was as if it all happened at once. It was not transcendent either. I wont say that it was an earth shattering experience, but it was one of those events in daily life </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/4572970324075381955/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3176857223504197614&amp;postID=4572970324075381955' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/4572970324075381955'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/4572970324075381955'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/2007/03/getting-zen-while-running.html' title='Getting Zen while running'/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614.post-5239944214550582792</id><published>2007-03-25T13:59:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-25T14:07:12.188-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='coffee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='winter'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eating'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='exercise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cooking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='running'/><title type='text'>Pounding the pavement again</title><summary type='text'>I haven't run outdoors since December, when I set the unrealistic--wholly--goal of running 100 miles in one month. I got 65 miles in and the freezing rain came and all so I couldn't.   Probably the best thing to do is to get dressed right now and go for a run outdoors instead of at the gym. I would like very much to be out in the fresh air today. I wanted to do that this weekend anyway.   Today, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/5239944214550582792/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3176857223504197614&amp;postID=5239944214550582792' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/5239944214550582792'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/5239944214550582792'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/2007/03/pounding-pavement-again.html' title='Pounding the pavement again'/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614.post-8148503312786160295</id><published>2007-03-24T17:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-24T18:02:40.990-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Damn I'm tired</title><summary type='text'>I don't think I've had one read yet on this thing. That's alright. It'll happen. Anyway, I wanted to work out today at the gym but I couldn't muster the energy. Last night, after our game, I could not sleep. I was worked up and excited for how I played. I think that with our season ending soon--with the exception of our drunken banquet--I'll try to play some hockey up in Troy, New York on </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/8148503312786160295/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3176857223504197614&amp;postID=8148503312786160295' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/8148503312786160295'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/8148503312786160295'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/2007/03/damn-im-tired.html' title='Damn I&apos;m tired'/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614.post-9012391224328071835</id><published>2007-03-24T00:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-24T00:44:18.030-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='misc'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='urge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hockey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='depression'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='self-improvement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='drugs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weight loss'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='addiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='anxiety'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='will power'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>I get my exercise on two skates</title><summary type='text'>I don't know how much people will want to read this Web log, but I'm excited for it. The whole reason I chose the tile Submit the Urge is because with nearly every person with a weight problem he or she has trouble with impulse control.In today's society people don't like hearing that because it implies that to be overweight is to have no impulse control, to be helpless, weak or cowardly.As rough</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/9012391224328071835/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3176857223504197614&amp;postID=9012391224328071835' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/9012391224328071835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/9012391224328071835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/2007/03/i-get-my-exercise-on-two-skates.html' title='I get my exercise on two skates'/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Cfl4C5lhp-w/RgTWP9wo0hI/AAAAAAAAAAM/JMYcRYO-2Pg/s72-c/hockeymarch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614.post-4986112656536145994</id><published>2007-03-23T15:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-23T15:06:04.775-07:00</updated><title type='text'>One breakfast sandwich, an egg salad sandwich, a slice of pizza, a cherry coke and a really bad brownie.</title><summary type='text'>That's what I've had so far to eat today. I have a hockey game tonight. I'll snap some photographs and hopefully will get someone on my team to take some pictures too. Thanks for checking in.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/4986112656536145994/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3176857223504197614&amp;postID=4986112656536145994' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/4986112656536145994'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/4986112656536145994'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/2007/03/one-breakfast-sandwich-egg-salad.html' title='One breakfast sandwich, an egg salad sandwich, a slice of pizza, a cherry coke and a really bad brownie.'/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3176857223504197614.post-5531818375215300364</id><published>2007-03-22T18:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-22T19:23:14.556-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hockey'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eating'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='weight loss'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meth'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='addiction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cooking'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>I'm not sure that there is any fundamental difference between myself and this woman right here, a meth addict who looks as if she's really down on her luck.Well, there's a little difference, I suppose. She's addicted to a drug that's made out of a concoction of household cleaning products, gasoline and nail polish and cold medicine. I guess that shit, whether she shoots it, snorts it, smokes it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/feeds/5531818375215300364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3176857223504197614&amp;postID=5531818375215300364' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/5531818375215300364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3176857223504197614/posts/default/5531818375215300364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://submittheurge.blogspot.com/2007/03/im-not-sure-that-there-is-any.html' title=''/><author><name>LanerDuck</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10341504648662159581</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
