I was hesitant to step to the scale, but not enough to keep me from it. The numbers read 212, but what they said “there is nothing you are incapable of when you believe.” In the 21 weeks since I began dieting, I’m two pounds away from having dropped a total of 50 pounds, and …
I’ve been stubbornly holding steady at 218 with occasional visits back up to 220 over the past couple weeks, so I was getting used to the idea that I’d be here a bit longer than expected. Thus it was with a bit of gleeful surprise when an impromptu step upon the platform of truth (otherwise …
Regardless of its triviality, I need to immortalize the t-shirt I wore today because 1) I’ve had it for more than 15 years, and 2) I wore it for the very first time today. I bought it in the very early 1990s when I took a tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s famed Ennis-Brown House in …
I found it interesting to realize that the amount of weight I’ve lost since beginning my diet in January now corresponds to a filled one of these five-gallon jobbers… …which translates to 43 pounds. Having once been employed to carry these where ever they needed to go, it’s a weight with which I’m definitely familiar. …
My weekly average weight loss seems to have been reigned in a bit. I’m down from dropping about two pounds every seven days to a pound, which is fine. It corresponds with the fact that I’m no longer so arduously attempting to keep my calories below 2,000 per day and that’s attributable to my recent …
What used to be a Sunday weigh-in (trepidation included) has now become a whenever-the-hell-I-want weigh-in (trepidation long gone). Thus, when I stepped to it this morning the scale showed me down another two to 220 pounds. Two-hundred and twenty pounds. Forty lost. Righteous and unbelievable! 6’2″ and 220 has always been my personal ideal height/weight …
Milestone time. I know, I know… this blog has become a bit redundant of late. If it’s not about my weight loss or a walk around the neighborhood, than it’s about whatever I’ve dug up outta the backyard. Well tough. If you’re one of my rapidly dwindling number of readers please attempt to suffer through …