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I’d like to welcome the newest FatBlogger to the group…

Greg of Greg’s Transformation will be joining up. He’s got a beautiful family and some definite goals in place.

Life is filled with drama. No big news flash there. There comes a certain point where things that are lower on the priority scale get neglected. I could insert a little story from my work in Child Welfare here, but I’ll save that for my personal blog.

I received a couple emails this week that drew my attention to fatbloggers for the first time in longer than I care to admit.

A couple of things to be aware of:

• I’d like to introduce our newest FatBlogger, Steve from 265andfalling. Make sure  he feels supported by this Band of Brothers.
• Take a look at the External Links at the bottom of the sidebar. These people are sponsoring our community. A little activity here would help them stick around.
• Speaking of which, I got an email this week reminding me that our little slice of the interwebs is up for renewal in January. If you’d like to make a donation of support, go HERE.
• There are 28 registered FatBloggers. You can probably guess, not all of them are posting. I will be sending out an email soon to ‘shake the tree’.
• I understand we are heading into the holidays… hell, I’m nowhere near moving in the right direction. But I would hope (and the finger is pointing at me too) that FatBloggers is a place for support and confession when you’re not doing so good as it is when we are doing great.
• And… if you see a formatting problem, please drop me an email. I happened to look at the OTHER theme in MSIE 8.0 and as usual for Explorer… it SUCKED! So I went back to the one that works (or seems to).

Take care guys!

Please join me in welcoming Greg to the FatBlogger tribe.

I love his story and you will too… check out his Blog 50 Pounds til Christmas.

Cross-published at Rejected Reality

When I had lost enough weight for people to notice; I was asked the inevitable question, “How are you doing it?” My answer, “Eating less and moving more”. I was always amazed by the fatalistic response, “I just can’t do that”.

One night, I was watching Finding Nemo with my kids; Dory’s mantra “Just keep swimming” struck me as a pretty appropriate philosophy for those times when you feel like there is no point. When people would ask how I was able to stick with the change in lifestyle effective weight loss demands, I would tell them, in the words of Dory, Just keep swimming!

I’m embarrassed to say; I stopped listening to Dory.

Last fall when I started Grad School; there was always something… books and articles to read and papers to write. The late nights, studying at the library, and lack of exercise caused the weight to start creeping back. WIth a pound here and a pound there I dismissed them thinking I just needed to get back on track. After all, I had lost 134 lbs!

School got more stressful… then the separation, divorce, and the accompanying drama… pizza, ice cream and beer were my friends. Add to that the need to streamline my finances… WeightWatchers and my old gym membership went into the dustbin (an $84 savings!).

Last night Robert and I joined Club 24 a card-lock gym. Its in a nice location, the price is right and it’s open 24/7!

Just keep swimming…

Starting Weight: 412 lbs
tarting BMI: 54.4
Last Weigh-In: (04/28/09): 301.6 lbs
Weight Today: 320.8 lbs.
Current BMI: 42.3

Weight Change: +19.2 lbs (yikes!)
Total Weight Lost: –91.2 lbs. (still, not bad)

I weighed in this morning as I got out of the shower. Wednesday sounds like a nice day for these weekly reports.

The overriding goal of my life was to hit my goal weight (225 lbs) by the time I hit 40. That was last week. Let’s say we adjust that to 41?

Wish me luck!

I posted some months ago about the study I’m doing as a part of my Graduate program in Social Work. It is looking into the factors that make weight loss effective and successful. In the end I hope to show the obesity epidemic does effect social programs.

If you are interested in participating… it is annonymous (I won’t know who the answers belong to).  Either comment here or email me and I will send you the link to the survey.

I have purchased a domain for my personal blog.

Check out Rejected Reality at its new address.

Cross Published on Rejected Reality

Slow and Steady wins the race…

I don’t know if the tortoise said that or where I heard it, but I alternate between that and Master Yoda (Do or Do Not. There is no Try). The gist of the message is, I’m better off today that when I started.

You have probably seen my comments on Facebook or Twitter or even here about how much I am hating the Stats class (billed as a research class) I’m taking this year. It really is a basic course, and I think if I weren’t dealing with so much other bullshit in my life, I probably would be doing just find. Well, no not really. But it would be the most difficult thing I’m dealing with rather than just one more irritant. Today we talked about correlations, the surprising thing (for everyone) is… I understood it. I told the prof she wasn’t explaining the concept correctly because I understood the ‘magic’.

Without going into the gory details, she used weight gain as an example. She said there is a correlation between being a grad student and gaining weight. I really don’t know where I could wedge in the exercise regimen I had before classes started last fall, but I really don’t want to lose too much more ground.

Good News… Monthly check-up today. Doc was happy I had lost 4 lbs since my last visit in March. I went directly from the appointment to WeightWatchers…

Anton, A drum roll please…

Starting Weight (March 7, 2006): 387.8 lbs.
Starting BMI: 51.2
Last Weigh-In (April 21, 2009): 299.4 lbs.
Weight Today (April 28, 2009): 301.6 lbs.
Current BMI: 39.8

Weight Change: +2.2 lbs
Total Weight Lost: –86.2 lbs.

Slow & Steady Wins the Race

Cross Published on Rejected Reality

John had some tough words for himself this past week.

No, I haven’t started referring to myself in the third person. Although, that’s not a bad idea.

Rather than restating what he already wrote so powerfully, I simply invite you to take a look for yourself… be honest with yourself, can you relate? I know I could!

John, thanks for the kick in the pants! I went to WW for the first time since February 24th.

Anton, A drum roll please…

Starting Weight (March 7, 2006): 387.8 lbs.
Starting BMI: 51.2
Last Weigh-In (February 24, 2009): 297.2 lbs.
Weight Today (April 21, 2009): 299.4 lbs.
Current BMI: 39.5

Weight Change: +2.2 lbs
Total Weight Lost: –88.4 lbs.

I promise, I’ll do better next time.

Cross-published on Rejected Reality.

As I started getting a fuller understanding of the disgusting lengths I put my body through to maintain a weight of over 400 lbs, the more nauseated I became when I saw others doing the same. In order to maintain 4+ spins, I had to consume over 10,000 calories per day!

When I visited an old friend while I was in Idaho last week; we were laughing about how we used to go to Izzy’s and gorge ourselves with food. It was a competition to see how many plates we could each go through! Then we would boast to others… Well, I polished off NINE plates! Like an alcoholic avoids pubs; I avoid buffet lines.

Watching food competitions on the cable networks (like Nathan’s 4th of July Hot Dog Contest) or The Travel Channels’ Man vs. Food, turns my stomach. I would much rather emulate Dhani Jones!

I was looking up some information on the Final Four (GO HEELS!) and I run across a Bill Geist piece for CBS Sunday Morning from last November on a restaurant in Chandler, Arizona called the Heart Attack Grill.

There are so many things about this clip that make me sick… icky icky nasty!

Will (occasional FatBlogger) over at 4XLT made a post that I could have written if I were of a mind to… and I wanted to be honest. 

Go over there and take a look…

the hook…

But here I am, looking objectively at the how’s and why’s of my life, and I come to the angering realization that there is nothing in my life since I lost 100 pounds back in August that shows I really care. And that really, really pisses me off.