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FAT MAN NOT AS FAT
Down 49 lbs and still counting
2/6/2017 - 284 lbs
2/26/2017 - 275 lbs
3/3/2017 - 270 lbs
3/7/2017 - 265 lbs
3/17/2017 - 260 lbs
4/5/2017 - 255 lbs
4/13/2017 - 250 lbs
5/14/2017 - 245 lbs
6/29/2017 - 240 lbs
8/15/2017 - 235 lbs
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No I'm not talking about the WW2 offensive, but rather my mid-section bulge. My reason for this posting is to make public my battle and goals among friends and to make myself publicly accountable.
I did something like this years ago when I decided to quit smoking. I had tried (in secret) many times but failed. I never had to tell anyone I failed because no one knew I had tried. Once I made my goal to quit smoking public, I could not be seen anywhere with a cigarette and I would have the embarrassment of everyone knowing I failed. It worked, and that was about 25 years ago. Now I have a new addiction that is killing me.
This came about because of my desire to ride the Continintal Divide Route (CDR) this spring. Yes, this will be attempt #3, but that is a different story. Although I'm retired, my kitchen passes are normally limited to 2 weeks (longer than that, the dishes start to stack up), but this trip was looking to be at least 3 weeks. My good friend Hizzo pleaded with the Saint for an extended pass and she reluctantly agreed but with the stipulation that I get in better shape so that she does not have to deal with retrieving my fat corpse from the middle of nowhere because I had keeled over from a heart attack.
With this goal, I started to do some research and found with my weight and height I have now achieved the honorable status of MORBIDLY OBESE! obese is one thing, but morbidly obese is, well ... morbid. Obese can always be glossed over with nice terms like "Husky", "on the heavy side"', etc. There is nothing you can do with morbidly obese. That's just plain FAT. I have to lose the "morbidly" from my classification.
Some time back, another TWT friend (Time To Ride) and I were talking about health goals and we agreed that I needed to lose weight and he needed to stop chewing tobacco. He quit chewing for a while but I did not live up to my end of the bargain and he has returned to chewing. Now that I have publicly called him out he has to quit chewing as long as I live up to my end of the deal.
Physically I am 65 and the thought of having to slow down because of my age and health is depressing. I can't do much about my age, but I recognize I must get in better condition if I want to continue to have good adventures.
I'm asking for your support, encouragement and damnation if I fall off the wagon. About once a week I will post my current weight and what I have done to condition my body.
So, here is the starting point.
Height 5'10
Weight: 287 lbs.
Way to go! There is no better motivation to loose weight than a CDR ride!
Well actually that trip did not end well. I did lose some weight, 260ish down from 287, and went on the trip. That trip ended with a collapsed lung and 6 broken ribs. I'm done with the CDR.
Well.....
I haven't gained any weight. I've been staying at my 235
Ok, ok. I've been slacking. Thanks for the wake up prompt. I'll get back on the program.
Not only did I fall off the diet wagon.
I dragged it into the woods, set it on fire, and used the insurance money to buy TWINKIES.
But the twinkies are gone, the wagon has been reconstructed and starting today, I am crawling back on that wagon.
Not only did I fall off the diet wagon.
I dragged it into the woods, set it on fire, and used the insurance money to buy TWINKIES.
But the twinkies are gone, the wagon has been reconstructed and starting today, I am crawling back on that wagon.