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.

Just keep Truckin' onnnnn...

First, thank you to all who have commented on my blog or sent personal emails of advice and encouragement. It really helps.

Today I am 203.8 so I made it through the weekend okay.

I was worried because our neighbors invited us over for dinner. I ate and drank way to much.

So, even though I made it through the weekend, I have not really solved the problem. I need to change my lifestyle.

I guess I shouldn't be too hard on myself. I did stop after only one drink but I had seconds on everything for dinner.

My point is, I sat there and said to myself, "Self, you are not really hungry. You could stop now and that would be okay."

Then I sat there for about 3 minutes and dug in for more. No one was pressuring me to have more. I just did it. I gotta stop that.

One day I'll explain my theory about Cravings, Desires and Hunger.

I tried once on my other blog but no one thought it was as profound as I do so I think I'll need to find a way to explain it better.

Thanks again to all.

No more rounding off

I'm not rounding my off my weight anymore!

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.

Cool. I didn't gain any weight yesterday.

Hooray for rounding!!!

I was so afraid...

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.

I love me some .4

Yesterday I was bummed because I weighed 205.6 and I had to round that up to 206.

Today is a good day. I weighed in at 204.4 so I get to round that down to 204.

So being fair I can say that I lost 2 pounds!!!!

Of course I understand that if I were to take 205.6 and subtract 204.4 the result would be 1.2 but shutup! I lost 2 pounds since yesterday.

Yay me!

Deal with it.

Another .6 day

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.

Today is a .6 day.

Torrow will be better. I just know it.

I've started working out

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!"

That would work for me.

Dammit Jim

I just spent an hour writing a very witty post and then lost it when I hit preview instead of submit.

Apparently the system logged me out. I suppose I would have lost it even if I had it submit.

The browser's back button didn't help.

I guess I'll keep my posts short from now on... or write them off line then cut and paste. Why don't they have a "save draft" button on this blog?

No matter, I should be at work anyway.

Oh did I mention...

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).