Won't make this months goal

Lost 16lbs this month and got out of fat man jeans.  3lbs short of my goal.  I can't complain but it is frustrating to get this close.  Wanted to be at 299lbs.  while the difference between 300 and 299 is only 16ounces, for me the distance is as wide as the universe.  Once i get to 299 I know I will be able to make it to 250.  Get to see the Doctor tomorrow.

Too Much Weight Loss/Omar the Tent Maker has been Fired

Boring Food but it's working for Now

Lost 6lbs during the first week.  Eating one bowl of cereal ( actually two for the normal sized person) protein shake, a wedge of cabbage, 2 cans of tuna packed in water, scads of carrots and a supper so small you can still see my plate and no seconds.  Those last two sure are unique for me as I  could have used side boards on my plate and very few leftovers made it to the frig and those that did were dispatched before sunrise the next day.   

And I get Free Vet Care

Roughly 13 months ago I vividly remember trying to somehow get comfortable in the patient's chair inside the small examination room.  I was tipping the scales at slightly over 400lbs.  I could not tie my shoes without getting out of breath.  Hell, I had a hard time even finding my shoes once I had them on to tie.  I couldn't bend over and I couldn't cross my legs unless I used my hands to pull my one leg up and over the other.  And to think I was a former Marine officer. 

8+/- years ago I had injured my ankle.  What I thought was a severe sprain turned out to be a significant stretching of all the tendons and ligaments in the foot that hold the three ankle bones in place.  Every time I moved the middle bone would try to pop out from between the foot and leg bone.  At times there was no pain and other the pain was ian ndescribable take you to your knees, sucker punch in the gut type pain.  The 'bone doctor' said he could fix it but it would be two years post surgery before I was relatively pain free.  Foot surgery was major he said.  He was right!

After surgery I began gaining weight.  The pain was even more intense at times than before surgery. If I wasn't at work, there were only three other places you could find me, on the couch, in bed or more likely in the frig or snack cabinet.  In eight years I became more than twice the man I was before the injury.

July 2009

Was it hot in the exam room?  I was sweating bullets.  No matter how I rearranged myslef I was uncomfortable.  The damn chair was just too small.  It wasn't made for real men, I thought.  It was made for one of those crazy aerobic chicks you see at the gym that after finishing the StairMaster sprint to the restroom and puke up the pint of vitamin water they drank.  You know the kind.  The ones that would look like a zipper if the stood sideways in the sun and stuck their tongue out.  The ones that need aerobics like I need a bullet hole in my head.

Well at least he didn't call me morbidly obese. I mean come on.  The Sumo wrestlers I watch on ESPN are morbidly obese.  I'm just fat.  He did ask me, 'Sir, do you own a dog?'  I replied, 'Sure, I own a purebred German Shepherd.'  To this the Doc replied, 'Well sir, that dog needs to go on a daily walk for at least an hour a day.'

I rarely have the right thing to say at the right time.  My smart ass comebacks usually are a day late and a dollar short but this one I had on the tip of my tongue.  When he said I needed to take the crazy dog for a hour walk every day, I looked him square in the eye and said, 'Look Doc if I need medical advice for any of my animals, I have a child that is a licensed and practicing  Vet.  I get it for free.'  His reply was to the point as he looked over his glasses and said, 'Sir, you know what we are talking about here.'

Two months later I go back in for a check up and he asks how things are going?  I replied, 'I don't know about me, but I now have one great looking German Shepherd that just absolutely adores you and I have a dog that will heel off lead perfectly.'

Jul 2010

I'm down to 327.  Lost roughly a bit over 80lbs by cleaning up my diet and walking everyday.  Started working at the gym again.  Have worked up to 58 minutes on the Elliptical.  Have really tightened up my diet and increased the intensity of the aerobics.  I guess I'm becoming a crazy aerobics guy.  This last week I've been losing about a pound a day.

August 2010

Down to 319.  Visited my Doc.  I may be losing weight but I am miserable.  I am hungry beyond imagination.  I look but don't touch what is in the frig.  I ask him what my alternatives are.  He smiles and says, 'How about a bit of Phentermine?'

And so starts my second journey