Week 97- This here is the home stretch!

Starting weight: 264.2
Weight last week: 225.0
Current weight: 223.0
Lost this week: Down 2!
Total lost to date: 41.2

Weight left to lose: 43.0

OK. Four months to go. Damn, that seems like the blink of an eye, doesn't it?

Four months to lose 43 pounds.

This is going to be tough. 16 weeks, at two pounds a week (optimistically) is only 32 pounds which pulls me up 11 pounds short.

I do not wish to be 11 pounds short.

Last night's workout was severe for two reasons. 1) I wanted to make sure I lost this week so I beat the living daylights out of myself. 2) they play patently awful dance/club music at the gym at night. When I hate the music I seem to work out harder.

And man, do I hate that music. Duing the day they sometimes play the Boneyard on Sirius/XM and yeah, that's pretty good stuff. When that's on I am good to go for the most part. Classic Rock with more of a metal edge, you know, Scorpions, Maiden, Priest, etc.

Then sometimes they play horrible, horrible disco music. Terrible, crappy music with robotic Auto-Tuned vocals. Completely soulless, and relentlessly offensive, aesthetically at least, to me.


It seems nights have been also attracting a lot of muscle-head Guido types*, although I did see a kid there in a Suicidal Tendencies shirt last night, so that was something. I'm sure he was suffering as well. Anyway, back to the Guidos. Most of them are OK, and I find most people there are reasonably friendly all-around, but I like the AM/Early afternoon folks more. I have little nicknames for them, and invent back stories or whatever.

Look, it keeps it interesting if I think Super Virile Asian Guy is fooling around with the MILFy Twins. I try not to involve thoughts of Short-Shorts/Cop Mustache is all.**

Anyway, I'm really trying to up the intensity of the workouts so I can get some bigger numbers. I'd like to lose three this week and hit 220. That seems to be some invisible barrier or something. When I hit that I think 200 will be the next tough nut to crack.


* That don't make you a bad person, but it's a "gruntier" experience, you know?

** Yes there are Night People with nicknames as well. There's Divorced Blonde Mom and daughter(who does not have a name, she's DBM's sidekick), Garlic Woman, Sparkly Scotty (so named because he wears his hat sideways [YES, at the gym!] like scotty from the little Rascals and bedazzled shirts, and Lacrosse Girl.

Last week, I forgot to mention-

I bested my best time on the Blue Trail at Cheesequake.

It's a 2.5 mile trail, mostly steep hills and rickety Staircases of Death(tm) and one perilously shaky sounding boardwalk over a salt marsh. I won't run on the walkway anymore. Not because I don't think it's solid, because it is, but because it's a little warped and, to be frank, I don't need to bathe in a swamp.

I did it in 43 minutes, which is 7 minutes better than my previous time.

So, last week wasn't all bad :) I also saw a lot of animals on that run. 2 deer, a rather surly frog, a very shy snake, and a couple little fat blue birds that looked like winged blue racket balls. Adorable!

Week 96 is goddamn depressing...

Sorry for the delay in posting. Things were a little crazy, then the damn internet connection kept going down, etc. Fun stuff.

Starting weight: 264.2
Weight last week: 223.0
Current weight: 225.0
Lost this week: up two. Seriously, WTF?!?!?!
Total lost to date: 39.2

Weight left to lose: 45.0

Up?

This is really annoying. Maybe I built some muscle? Clothes fit better, and yet, I am heavier.

"Awesome" could not possibly weigh this much, could it?

Did 4.5 miles in 40 minutes in the Yellow trail in Cheesequake on Tuesday. It's an easy trail, so I made good time. I saw a huge mess of deer and tiny blue bird that looked like Disney cartoons. It was pretty good.

Two milestones achieved...

1) I managed to do some pull ups for the first time ever. 39 years, pull up free and I managed 5. Yay for me!

2) Two words- Medium Underpants!*





* you betcha!

Happy Birthday(s)!

Happy 04 to my son, on Wednesday, and happy 81 to my Dad today!

Week 95- Honestly, I'm getting a little annoyed...

Starting weight: 264.2
Weight last week: 224.0
Current weight: 223.0
Lost this week: 1.0
Total lost to date: 41.2

Weight left to lose: 43.0

One pound, eh?

Well.

I guess I have no choice but to switch to Plan B. I'm going to have to take up smoking crack.*



* Just kidding, kids. Freebasing cocaine is way better for weight loss!**

** it saddens me to have to put this here, but I am KIDDING. I don't wanna be responsible for some moron kid on Intervention in a couple years crying into a dirty flannel shirt about how he just wanted to drop "that last 10 pounds" and that he saw this on a blog.

Fiber- Dietary, not moral.

So, I'm trying this thing two days before I weigh in. I up my fiber intake on Sunday, then back off of it a lot on Monday, hoping that by Tuesday, it will make a significant difference in my CF.

This is week three I am trying this out. Didn't do crap* for me week 1 (in fact, I went up if you remember) and may have worked last week. This week will be the litmus test, I think.

What I have been doing is I have been eating two VitaMuffins** Sunday nights, and they are acting like reactor fuel for the most part. They appear to be the Roto-Rooter of foods. With 12 g of fiber for two, they pretty much will unstick whatever you got stuck, I'll tell you what.

I pity my poor wife, because I am killing her. You can probably figure out what I'm talking about on your own without me spelling it out for you.

Remind me later in the week to tell you about all the cool stuff that's back at ALDI for the summer.

I seriously wish they'd endorse this blog. I mean, I talk them up for free, but some free groceries would be swell. I also accept cash and gold bullion.

I also think I'd have to cut back on the gas talk and assorted other nonsense, and where would the fun be in that? Ah, you win some you lose some...





* Totally didn't see that the first read through! Ha!

** I know, I know. It's just a phrase that sounds dirty like "tethering the blimp," or "Sending out for sushi," or "Shaking Hands with Abraham Lincoln.***"

*** Good grief, I can't use this joke anymore! According to Urbandictionary.com (pretty much NSFW kids!) it's a euphemism for male, uh..."alone time" if you catch my drift. Dang. That one doesn't even make sense, unless there's some sort of "stovepipe hat" reference I am missing...

A little advice

So, if you apply Icy Hot to your foot before bed and you go for a three mile hike in the woods, you probably want to wash your foot first, because otherwise it burns like a mofo.

Week 93- 224! We have movement! (this is *not* about poop)

Starting weight: 264.2
Weight last week: 225.5
Current weight: 224.0
Lost this week: 1.5
Total lost to date: 40.2

Weight left to lose: 44.0

OK, not what we wanted and I am dying to break through the 220 barrier!

Jeez, 44 pounds left and it seems ridiculous.

Out, Out, Damned Gout!

Yeah, I appear to be having a minor (comparatively) flare up, which is odd being I haven't had one in a good long while (last year in the early part if I am correct) and I haven't been eating gout unfriendly stuff.

By minor, I of course mean I feel like someone broke my ankle while I was sleeping and replaced the bones with old sticks as opposed to having a foot filled with broken glass and lava.

Two days no gym. annoying.

It's an Easter Miracle(tm) !

Shirt size: Large
Pants size: 34 x 30
Ego size: Ridiculous


Yeah, 1 pants size from goal!