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.