WTF?

On Monday my trainer decided it was time to recheck my stats... after he weighed me and checked my BMI he said "I'm not going to bother checking your measurements, you are wasting your money coming here."

I'm not sure if he thought that would motivate me or what I can tell you one thing, he's not my favorite anymore.

I'm still fighting

I didn't eat right over the weekend and it shows. This morning I am back down to 200.8

Still haven't gotten below 200 but at least for today I am going in the right direction.

A little help?

Hey DesertBrat:

I just remembered you are in Long Beach. I am planning to take my wife to a Flamenco dinner and show for her birthday next month.
Someone told me about this place:
http://www.alegriacocinalatina.com/
Have you ever heard of it?
I read a few online reviews and some were good and some weren't.
I also looked at El Cid in Hollywood and Tapas Bar and Grill in Newport but I haven't decided yet.
Any insight you can offer would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Jerry

Just because I'm paranoid...

... doesn't mean they're not all out to get me.

Seemly unrelated events.

1. I've been so close to breaking through the 200 pound barrier the last week I expected to see it everyday this week.

2. My scale is sensitive to heat and cold. When it is hot I weigh less.

3. It snowed in friggin Malibu California yesterday.

4. The powers that be can kiss my extra pounds.

On a positive note thanks to all who have commented:

KarenARP: I like your graph. How do you do that?

SlowAndSteady: Yeah, if the rest of my life can be in a downward spiral what's the deal with the weight?

DB (can I call you DB?): You are too funny. I knew I was a little overweight but I didn't realize I was registering on the Richter scale. Thanks for pointing that out. LOL

QH: I guess it's going in the right direction if sideways is where you want to go. LOL. It's not too bad actually, I just know I'll be under 200 tomorrow (where have I heard that before? Oh yeah, I've said it to myself every damn day this week...)

Sept and Oct were good months

I just figured out I could go back and enter my old weights from before I signed up at EP (I catch on quick, it just takes a while).

So I started entering for last June for each week, but it was going to take too long so I started entering just monthly until I got to about November, then it dawned on me that I should just enter my lowest and my highest weight for each month (I told you, it just takes a while).

So, I went back and entered those weights.

Now, my graph kinda looks like the mouth of a pumpkin from the Nightmare Before Christmas.

I'll enter more archived data tomorrow. Not that I want to live in the past but I like seeing that I was under 195 less than 6 months ago.

Oh and Sept and Oct? I was under 200 for that entire two month period.

I got you babe

I weighed in at 201.2 this morning. Just 3.2 more pounds to lose before I get back to where I was when I first signed up for EP.

I have been tracking my weigh since June 2006 and entering it into an Excel spreadsheet so I could graph my progress. Then a buddy of mine told me about EP so I signed up on Nov 22nd. Right before Thankgiving.

I wasn't really excited about the EP concept. I didn't really need to share my story with the world. I didn't want to log my food. I certainly didn't want post photos of myself. I just wanted to graph my weight loss.

I tried to log in a few days after I signed up and I couldn't remember my password. Nothing I tried worked so I just keep logging my weight in Excel. No biggie.

Then around Christmas I tried logging in again and somehow it worked. But by this time I had gained 5 pounds.

I decided to play around with EP and started reading some of the blogs. Reading your stories changed my opinion of EP. I still don't use all the features but I read some of the blogs and comment when I can.

Now I look forward to logging in every morning and checking to see how my friends are doing.

Thank you all for being there.

If you can't be good, be lucky

I took the day off from exercising yesterday and I was out of the office most of the day. When I came back to the office everyone was gone and as I walked passed the kitchen I saw a package of cookies sitting out. That is so strange because they never leave anything out they always clean up.

I can refuse anything when people are around but when I am alone I have no will power. I was able to walk past the cookies to my office but then I walked all the way back just to eat them.

Fortunately for me I discovered the package was unopened. That explains why they didn't need to put them away. This also helped me. If they had been opened I probably would have eaten the entire package but since they weren't I was able to talk myself out of it.

Don't ask, don't tell

I didn't work out today. Woke up at 1AM and never got back to sleep. About 3AM I gave up and got out of bed.

I weighed myself about 4:30 then went back to my chair and my laptop.

Went in to shower about 8AM and weighed again. I was two pounds lighter. I didn't have the nerve to try it again I just went with 203.0.

I wonder what time I should weigh in tomorrow?

Funny, I don't feel fat...

My wife says muscle weighs more so I'm going with that.

I really don't like seeing this numbers on the scale but feel much better now that I've been working out.

I guess my target date of May 25 (our 33rd wedding anniversary) may be a little optimistic but with all the cardio I'm doing at least I'll still be around in May.

DesertBrat: We are pretty close geographically. Maybe we should get our spouses to take us out to dinner someplace halfway between once we both reach our goals... of course it looks like you well be doing that in a couple of weeks and for me it will be a couple of years but hey. it was a thought.

Still here

I'm hangin' in there but no time to blog. I work out in the morning now. By the time I'm done I need to get to work.