Mostly because I just realized I could enter decimals here at extrapounds dot com and only partly because yesterday my weight was 204.4 which I round down to 204 but today my weight is 204.8.
If i were to round off I would have to round up to 205 and we aren't gonna go there.
This is ONLY a .4 increase people!
Hey weight a minute...
If I just round off the increase...
Let's see, the rule is if it is half or more you round up, if it is less than half you round down. Hey maybe this rounding thing isn't so bad after all. I'm rounding my .4 pound increase down to 0.
I was so afraid to weigh in this morning. I was sure I would be back up a pound or two since that's how it has been going lately.
For the last week I have been on a protein only sort of diet and last night I broke down and had carbs.
Friday nights are hard because I usually bring dinner home for me and my wife. I haven't really found any healthy choices yet in that regard.
However, when I weighed in a few minutes ago I was still at 204.4 so I guess I got away with it... for now anyway. Let's see if I can make it through the weekend.
We have this thing at our house that we loving refer to as "a piece of plastic crap".
It's relatively new but on more than one occassion my wife has walked into the bathroom and found it in the trashcan.
At your house you may call it a scale but we know the truth.
The thing about it is that it measures your weight in .2 pound increments (it is supposed to measure your body fat as well but I'm pretty sure that part is broken).
The thing that frustrates me the most is .6 pounds. I mean seriously. I always round to the nearest pound. All this week I have been either .4 or .6 WTF?
I feel so good when it is .4 and I can enter my weight here as 205... but when it's .6 I have to enter my weight at 206.
I decided to get a personal trainer. I told him my weight loss goal. The first thing he told me was that 80 percent of weight loss is diet and 20 percent is exercise.
I guess I knew that since I lost 40 lbs before just by dieting with no exercise.
This time I am exercising though. Not so much for the weight loss... but for my grandchildren. I don't have any grandchildren yet but when they are born, I would like to be there.
My father died at the age of 59 from heart failure.
My brother died at the age of 52 from heart failure.
I am 52.
Of course, this is not as bad as I am making it sound. I have another brother who is 65 and very heathly. And, I am already in better shape than my departed family members ( not 'cause they're dead, I mean I'm in better shape than they WERE when they were alive).
However, I am NOT in good shape (see photo below).
I should be.
I will be.
... of course I will be dead someday too but...
... I saw an interview with Warren Buffet. They asked him what he would like his legacy to be. He said all he wants people to say when they look at his tombstone is "Geesh, he was old!"
I've been snacking all day while I played around with this blog. I'm not a good dieter when left to make my own decisions (but then I'm too much of a control freak to let anyone tell me what to eat).
I don't know when I got fat but I do remember the first time someone said something about it.
It was at my mom's funeral. I was standing across the room from the door talking with a few family members. My sister Lynda was at the door when a distant relative came in and she stood there pointing at people in the room telling them who each one was.
I'm sure she didn't know I could hear her but when she got to my group she told him each person's name and then said:
"...and that chubby guy is my brother Jerry"
I had never thought of myself as chubby. Believe it or not, I still didn't after I heard that.
In fact it wasn't until my wife and I lost some weight I noticed in old family photos how bad I looked.
Last year I lost 40lbs. I went from 215 down to 175. Then slowly, slowly, slowly started putting it back on.
Today I am at 205 lbs. I don't like it. I felt much better at 175. According to the official weight charts I should weigh 165lbs. I can't imagine being that small but I'll take it one step at a time. Let's get me to 175 then we'll worry about what happens after that.
I have blogged a few times in my life so I understand that no one will read this or if they do, they will not be very interested in what I have to say so I feel pretty safe just saying what I feel.
I'm not much of a blogger really so if you do happen to be captivated by my text let me apologize in advance because I probably won't write again for several months.
I signed up with Extrapounds right after Thankgiving then totally forgot about it. Since then I see that I have gained 7 or 8 pounds. Pretty cool huh?
