WOO-HAH!!!!!!!!!

Christmas Goal Weight: 210.0
Today's Weigh in: 209.0 (NEW LOW!!!)

Who's you daddy?!?!?!?!?

Ok, so I'm pretty happy, and I like to talk trash a lot. If you don't appreciate it, blame Tucker. If he had just broken my jaw for talking all the trash I've talked to him over the years, I would have learned my lesson and quit. But he didn't, so I'm still talking trash, and it's all his fault. And of course, I rock so hard that I reached my goal two days early. Umm...last month it was a week early, and the month before it was 12 days early, and I've got a short month coming up, but hey, I did it. My next goal is 200 by my daughter's birthday on January 19 (she'll be two) so I'd better get my ass and get to work if I really think that I'm going to make it. Short celebration I know, but I've lost almost 90 pounds since May first, and that's how I've done it.

Things have been going pretty well, though, and I'm happy about that. The holiday is on Tuesday, and I should be able to keep a lid on it, given the fact that I'm working the midnight shift on Christmas Eve night to Christmas Day morning, midnight to eight AM, and I won't be awake enough to want to eat on Christmas. We've got a big meal planned on Christmas Eve for dinner, but I'll keep a tight rein on myself earlier in the day, and that should get me through.

Today has been a decent day so far. Breakfast was a banana. We're out of grapes and raisins and I'm going nowhere near a grocery store until after the holiday. Lunch was two tuna sandwiches and a salad. I'm not sure what we're having for dinner, but it should be healthy, and I won't eat too much, I promise.

This is probably my last posting before the holiday, so Merry Christmas to everyone. Have a safe holiday, and I'll talk to you all soon.

Damn

Today's weight in 210.8 (NEW LOW!!!!)

I just realized that it's been over a week since the last time I blogged. Sorry everybody. If it's any consolation, I just finished checking my email for the first time in over a week as well. Life's been a bit crazy lately, with my mother in law being injured and my wife not being home a lot of the time, I'm having to pretty much take care of everything myself. Don't get it twisted, it makes sense that I would in this situation, but the time I usually use to blog is being spent doing dishes, and folding laundr, etc. I do this kind of stuff a lot, but right now I have to do all of it, and not just half. It's been a bit hard to find time to sit down at the ol' computer and do anything, really.

The good news is that my mother in law had her surgery, and seems to be recuperating well, so there's hope for the future at least. I'm still not sure if she'll ever heal up enough to go back to her job, but at least she's not in as much pain, and the therapy machine they've got her on is helping her keep the flexibility going in her leg. She's ahead of schedule there, so it looks about as well as it could at the moment.

My weight loss has been going well, and I'm almost to a bunch of milestones.

1.) 90 lbs. lost
I'm at 210.8 now, and I started at 298.4, so that only leaves me 2.4 lbs. to hit ninety lost
2.) 100 lbs. lost
Ok, so I need 12.4 more pounds to get here, but I'm already excited about it.

And of course, related to both of those is the fact that I'm almost to another major step in my journey. Before too long, I will be under 200 lbs. for the first time in over a decade. I can see that spot from here, and it's just over that hill and around the bend. I can't wait to get there.

For all of you tacky music fans out there

Today's weigh in: 212.6 (NEW LOW!!!)

I love Gene's idea about using song lyrics in a blog, and I'm a fan of Weird Al Yankovic, so I thought I'd try my hand at my one parody song. I don't really have time for the whole song, but here is the first verse, and be warned, today I start working on another one to be unveiled when I hit the hundred pound mark. Today's is called"You've Gotta Fight for Your Right to Be Thin" after an old Beastie Boys track.

So you wake up out of bed and gut looks too big
You think to yourself "I've got to do something."
You eat two bananas and head out to the mall
But your weigh- in says that you're not done at all

You've gotta fight for your right to beeeeeee thin!

You gotta be smaller if that's the clothes you want to we-ar
You gotta eat lots of protein or you'll lose your hair
Your mom pops an innocent, "What pants size?"
Oh, Mom your just jealous it's thirty six waste, guys!

You've gotta fight for your right to beeeeee thin!!!

I wanted to do the whole song, but I ran out of time. I hope you enjoyed it.

Basement Workouts

Today's Weigh In: 213.2 (NEW LOW!!!!)

"If you can't keep a promise to yourself, what kind of a person does that make you?" -Billy

After the Turkey Trot, I promised myself that I would start doing some calisthentics to get ready for the Race for the Cure. Until today, it hadn't happened, but I finally got off my fat duff (term intentionally used) and went downstairs to do some Basement Drill. It was far short of spectacular, but it should keep me heading toward my goal. I did some downhill skiers, some jumping jacks, some cross country skiers, the lay on your back and do the bicycle thing and some running in place for about twenty minutes, taking occasional breaks so that I could prevent my daughter from creating any massive catastophes. I'd love to do the continuous motion things some of you do, but with a baby in the house and no other adult it's just not going to happen. I didn't have time to walk today, and that's kind of why I was motivated to do this, but it is a normal part of my day, starting today. I think I'll go back to the way we did it in the Army, one hard day and one run day, only I can't run so maybe I'll call it a cardio day. Pretty freaking original, I know, but it's a plan, and that counts for something. I need to stop making f786^*&^ing excuses and get to Tucks for that weight bench so that I can do some weight training and not just the normal pushup/situp thing. On that note, I have come up with some goals for this time next month, January 13, 2008. Keep in mind that I'm using Army counting methods, so that what I'm calling 50 jumping jacks, most people would call 100.

To be able to do 50 jumping jacks without stopping.
To be able to do 50 downhill skiers without stopping
To be able to do five minutes of continuous running in place
To be able to do two minutes of the lay on your back and do the bicycle exercise
To be able to do two minutes of continuous cross country skiers
To be able to do 42 pushups in two minutes
To be able to do 52 situps in two minutes
and to be able to still go to work that night.

Wish me luck.

Eating today has been good so far. I had a banana, grapes and raisins for breakfast, two tuna fish sandwiches and a salad for lunch and for dinner I'm taking a chicken breast stuffed with fruit and some asparagus. Gotta run for now, I'll talk to you all soon.

What goes down, must come up...or some other lame excuse

Today's weigh in: 214.8

Yesterday turned out to be a very snacky day, and my weight went up slightly as a result. Eight tenths of a pound is far from being the end of the world, but it just annoys me. It was just one of those days where I didn't put myself in check and ate a little here and a little there. All three meals were good, but I had some chocolate pieces last night while we were making suckers for the kids at the family Christmas party coming up, a couple pieces of deer jerky at my uncle's house, a couple of Hershey's kisses at my mother in laws, and probably some other crap that I forgot about. I did it to myself. Here's the good news, though: Tuck was right. No one forced me to eat that crap, and his does hurt, too. So I'm off to a better start today.

Breakfast was a banana and some raisins. Lunch was a leftover piece of prime rib (probably about 5-7 oz. if I'm guessing) and a salad. Dinner tonight will be a cube steak with some rice pilaf and some wax beans, but I haven't eaten it yet because it's only 1 PM. I did four miles at the mall today, and still had time to get my new license plate tabs (my birthday is on Saturday) and pick out the shoes that my wife is getting me for my birthday. Sounds a little weird I know, but she didn't want to get the wrong thing, and she wanted me to try them on first, so I went and got them. I don't get to wear them until Saturday though.

If it's not obvious based on the fact that I got all of this done and still have time to blog before work, Wifey has the kid today. She is at the doctor with her mother, and we weren't sure if she would be back in time for me to drop Riley off before I left for work. It was kinda lonely at the mall with no one demanding to go see her Grandma at work, or go to the bookstore, or play at the playplace, but I bucked up like the little trooper that I am, and got through it. Go me! So here's hoping for a better today, to be followed by a great tomorrow, and a fantastic Thursday... I'll keep you posted.

Getting there.

Today's weigh in: 214.0 (NEW LOW!!!!)

So things are rolling along for me and I'm looking pretty good. Christmas is 11 days away, and I only have to lose another four pounds to hit my goal. This is by no means a gimme, but it's definitely doable if I mind my p's and q's and don't go overboard at my wife's family party next Sunday. Granted, the new low posted above is only six tenths of a pound lower than my old new low, but hey, it's lower, so I'll take it.

Otherwise, life is a bit crazy lately. Sorry I missed all of you FAT members at the Applebee's yesterday. I had actually thought that I'd be able to go, and then my mother-in-law fell, and I was running all over town picking things up for some baking the wife was going to do with her mother, and trying to find out who had my grandma's old shower chair and wheel chair, and doing the grocery shopping that my wife ordinarily does on Saturday while I'm at work, etc. Not the greatest day ever, I guess, but at least I can't be accused of not getting stuff done.

Today has been decent so far. Breakfast was the normal banana and grapes, with lunch being two pieces of fried chicken (SKIN REMOVED!!) and a salad. I also had a piece of crazy bread today, but it was only one piece. Walking today was about a mile and a half, because Riley freaked, and I had to leave the mall earlier than planned. This was AFTER I bribed her to be quiet by buying her a book. Life sucks sometimes, I guess, but here's looking forward to a good tomorrow.

Oh, Lord. Just what I needed.

Today's weigh in: 214.6 (NEW LOW!!!)

So I'm at work last night and my cell phone starts to vibrate, only don't tell my boss, because I'm not supposed to have it in the building. It's a text message from my wife saying,"Call me 911" Freaking great feeling right? So I call her, and it seems that my mother in law has fallen and broken her leg, and needs to go to the hospital. It seems that babies are not the greatest of companions in these situations, so they need me to come home and take care of my daughter. Makes sense to me, but I'm half an hour away, and I'm the only supervisor on the floor. So, I had to find an assistant supervisor to stay late and close on a Friday night, then go to my mother in law's house where my wife and baby were. I got my daughter, brought her home, and put her to bed, and now I'm off work today because I have to look after Riley while wifey and her mother are trying to figure out whether there's going to be any surgery required.

This sucks on so many levels that I can't even begin to describe them, so I'll just shut up with my whining and get on with the blog.

Things have been going pretty well on the weight loss front. I had a big weight spike for reasons I don't completely understand, going from 216.0 to 219.0 in like two days. It sucked, but I'm back down the last couple of days, so maybe I was just retaining water or something. It seems to be gone now.

As far as today, I haven't eaten anything yet. That's not really all that surprising because I'm not usually up this early in the morning, except on Saturdays, and really the only reason I got up early today is that I had to call work and tell them that I wasn't coming. Exercise has been non-existent today too, for pretty much the same reason. Oh well, I'll try to get something in later. I don't know how much, mall walking is pretty much not going to happen on a Saturday in December, but maybe I'll figure something out. Enjoy your weekends all, I'll talk to you soon.

It's cold out

Today's Weigh In: 216.0 (NEW LOW!!!!)

Q: What's the best thing about going up and down a ladder all day?

A: Anal sex with trees.

I can't stand getting branches stuck up my ass.

I cleaned the gutters today. Bad timing. It snowed last night, and it's above freezing today, so the water that was held up by the leaves filled the gutters. My hands were freezing. But, it needed to be done, so I did it. It sucked though. Wifey actually shoveled the snow though, so at least my soaking wet ass didn't have to do that.

Eating today could have been better health wise, but at least I think that I've kept the calories down up to a normal level, at least up to this point. We went to a pizza brunch with Santa today at the Cloverleaf on Gratiot, for those that are familiar. It was a buffet. But Tuck once told me that it was about 300 calories for a slice of pizza, and I had one and a half to go with two breadsticks, and a small salad with vinegar and oil dressing. I had another salad a little later on, this one with fat free Italian. I haven't eaten dinner yet, but it's only 3:30, so it's all good. Exercise today has been limited to going up and down a ladder.

In other news, my Aunt Janice lost her battle with cancer yesterday, and tomorrow is the funeral/memorial service. It's about three hours away in Mt. Pleasant, so there's a good chance you won't hear from me tomorrow, and I'm not sure when I'll be in the mood to be back on, but rest assured, I'll hold the eating together, and I won't stop walking. Hell, I did two miles in the blistering cold yesterday trying to get my head together after it happened while Riley was with my wife. I'm not sure how much it helped, but I didn't want to sit and mope because it's just not my style. I'll be back in touch soon, I'm not sure if it will be tomorrow or Tuesday, or next week, but stay strong, and don't go near the Christmas cookies.