This is a sad day friends. This will be my last blog for a few days as I'm being sent to fat camp. Desperate times and all that, have left me no choice but to wander the deserts of Arizona for 4 days in the 100+ degree weather carrying my million pound backpack. While todays pic and info isn't so great, if I do in fact survive this trip, I will hopefully have shown some progress.
There comes a point in every mans life when he must go out into the wilderness and find his spirit animal. Pray with me that mine turns out to be a stallion or something, and not an elephant. Goodnight, and good luck!
Day 7: 7-30-08
Days Remaining: 15
Weight: 201...apparently quite the hurtle.
Weight Misplaced So Far: 9 lbs.?
Measurement: O_o
Today's Activity: None. At all....Dang it!
It would appear I've run out of water weight to lose...Weighed myself at 1:45am and landed at 201 again. Now the real battle begins....
Yesterday was pretty good all around as far as nutrition and exercise go. Calorie intake was low and my percentage of carbs, fats, and proteins was much better! Work out consisted of being verbally abused (but in a fun way) while hiking Goat Mountain and doing some core exercises to Dr. Horrible...hey! It works for me, ok.
We were rolling deep last night with Sara taking the position of scout, running ahead and emasculating the 4 grown men sweating hundreds of feet behind her, Box bringing sexy back, JT kicking Goat Mountain right in the danger zone, and Robinson taking on the role of everybody's purse...wait. Man purse...? What is that? Murse? Anyways, he carried all our stuff with style. And we're not talking Walmart clearance bin fanny packs, we're talking Coach quality...Niiice. The size of our party, by the way, is probably the only reason we were not killed by bats snakes or coyotes, since we did the last half of the hike using cell phones for flashlights in the deep and ominous dark that is the outskirts of Villa Park/Anaheim Hills...In case no one has ruined the end of the story for you yet, we all survived...
Went home, ate a little salad with my magical miracle dressing, worked out, (my apologies to the folks at the condo that had to smell or hug me. I am the man "Moist" is based on.) and hung out with the birthday boy for a couple hours...Go Luis! a little bit older and a whole lot sexier...26 is the new...(what's a cool age to be?) well 26, I guess. But ain't nothing wrong with that! Got a lil bit of sleep and am once again writing yesterdays blog today...that is soooo our generation.
Day6 : 7-29-08
Days Remaining: 16
Weight: 201...still
Weight Misplaced So Far: 9 lbs.?
Measurement: Ok. Here's the deal. I measured myself and my numbers are still the same as they were over a month ago before I starting killing myself with exercise. Needless to say. (even though I am) I found it depressing and couldn't comprehend it. I choose not to post it as there is no progress and I'm concerned that if I try to measure myself daily through this process, the pathetic tears of failure will bring a second flood and I'm not ambitious enough to build an arc...plus a grown man crying...Emo.
Today's Activity: Goat Mountain with the posse and a
Little bit of ab work out..."You can do it!"
I have no picture today(for yesterday)! I was feeling so ill last night, that I actually went to bed early! Dun dun dunnnnn!!!! In a nutshell, Monday sucked. Adding to the drama of spectacular proportions, I tried out the eating every 3 hours per my PIT, and it left me feeling like I was starving all day. I swam half a mile and was done. My head hurt so bad, that I crashed and left you poor captivated readers on the edge of your seats waiting, wondering in fact, how will it end? "Does he achieve his goal?" "Do the pictures ever cease to nauseate?" "Is he actually a dead therapist, who didn't realize he's been dead from the beginning?!" I'm afraid I can't answer those questions...but I can tell you that I lost a pound from the day before and that I will blog on. For now...
side note. Yesterday was a very rough day, and I would appreciate you sending some prayers Brandon Baker's direction.
Day 5: 7-28-08
Days Remaining: 17
Weight: 201
Weight Misplaced So Far: 9 lbs.?
Measurement: I'm at work and I think it might be a little weird if I start trying to take my measurements.
Today's Activity: Almost nothing...It was date night and we ran some wedding errands. Post Bed, Bath, Beyond excitement, I swam just over half a mile...and fell into a deep slumber, from which I'm still waiting to wake.
Not a whole lot to say today, mostly because I'm tired and sun-burned. I went on a great hike today and haven't been able to weigh myself all day. I was able to get some handy advice from Gabe, or as I shall hence forth refer to him as, my nutritional adviser\Personal Intake Technician.
Hopefully, this process will be healthier with the addition of PIT to the Payroll.(Actually, he volunteered but it's a tax write off.)
Day 4: 7-27-08
Days Remaining: 18
Weight: 202
Weight Misplaced So Far: 8 lbs.?
Measurement: I got tape measure, and will have numbers tomorrow, thanks to Sara.
Today's Activity: Roughly 6 m
ile hike, and a brief
stint in the community pool...O_o Thug Life.
Can you say water weight!? So the hike this morning wasn't as intense as planned, but it was definitely a good time and I was sweating profusely! Weighed myself before I went on the hike as well as right before the trip to San Diego and scale said 203! I don't think that's really possible unless I ditched a bunch of water weight but we'll see what tomorrows weigh in brings. I'm going to try to jog up and around Goat Mountain tomorrow morning, so that's fun. Pictures are still not looking so good and I still don't have a tape measure, but let's just enjoy 210 to 203 in 3 days before tomorrows weigh in brings me back down to earth.
Any recommendations or information you think should be on here, please let me know through comment or email, or basically anything other than telepathy. I suck at telepathing...
Day 3: 7-26-08
Days Remaining: 19
Weight: 203
Weight Misplaced So Far: 7 lbs.
Measurement: I got nothing....
Today's Activity: Roughly 3 mile hike and shaking my money maker at the best wedding I've ever been to!
This has been a rough day. Despite the fact that I'm down 2 lbs. from yesterday(mini woot!), I went to get fitted for my tux today. A day every man dreams of...it was not the exciting experience I had hoped to savor. To try and keep it short, the lady said that the pants she was giving me were between 32-36(32 is my current goal) and that I should try them on without her actually measuring my waist. I thought they looked good and I had to tighten them. I pegged myself at approx. 34 but she made a comment about them looking tight and me needing a 38 which made me look like Andy from Shawshank Redemption with the button up shirt. They looked like I was wearing giant sweats! She said I could wear the other ones if I didn't mind the fact that they looked like they were too small for me. So my choice is Emo groom or MC Hammer Live at Pala Mesa. There were other words said but those were the ones that crapped on my day. Was a little bit discouraging but I'm trying not to let it get me down. On the plus side, we're down 2 lbs., swam today, gnarly hike tomorrow morning before Tina's wedding, and the picture is slightly better than yesterday's(good for all of us.) Although I apologize cuz it will take a while before it's a pleasant site, and there isn't much I can do about the face, so let's make that the next blog and try to ignore it for now.
BTW...This blog has got to be the smartest, stupidest thing I've ever done. Thank you guys for your support commented and otherwise. It is appreciated. I promise to try to be funnier tomorrow.
Day 2 7-25-08
Weight: 208
Measurements:
Still no tape but according to Friar Tux's in house succubus I'm around 38.
Before pics.....
Additional info to come...
So basically I am getting married in 22 days, (21 by the time Im done posting) on August 15th to the most amazing woman! Exactly a week from today I'll be in Havasupai on at an awesome Bachelor Party put on by my best friend and best man. Two weeks after that, I say some vows and jump on a jet to tour a couple Hawaiian islands. Sounds like a dream come true right? Wrong! (sort of wrong) I am so blessed, but am not currently happy with the state of my flabiness...(does spelling even matter here?)
Here is what you have just jumped into...each day for the next 22 days(assuming I can get to a computer) I will post my dietary progress or lack there of. Rest assured this is the most humiliating and disgusting thing I've ever done, but it may be oddly motivating. Here we go with what will hopefully be the worst of the posts...
Day 1 7-24-08Weight: 210
Measurements:
No Tape at the moment but next time...(approximating the belly at 38ish from my last measurement and waist at 37)ish
Before pics.....
Oh Man! I'm so sorry...
