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Below is a statement that I worked through with my Dr., earlier this year.  He asked me to post it on my bathroom mirror, and where ever I would see it.  When ever I saw it, I was supposed to say it out loud, and also tell a “few” safe friends.  It sounds ludicrous when you first speak it, but when I finally thought about it, it was, and sometimes is, true.

 Read it out loud, and then do a little self evaluation. 

“As it stands today, I prefer to continue living my current
lifestyle, which leads to early death and the abandonment of my wife & family, rather than control the amount and frequency of my food intake, exercise, and feeling my fears.”

Well?

Cross posted on Rejecting Your Reality
and with ‘encouragement’ from Paul at Sucks To Be Fat.

It’s OK… gasp, turn away in disgust, shield the eyes of your children, I’ve seen/heard it all before.
This is me at my known MAX, 412 lbs. trying to squeeze myself into a seat at Safeco Field. I tried WeightWatchers half-heartedly during the fall of 2005, but never really took it seriously.
With the dawning of 2007 I saw two major events on the horizon. My 20-year high school reunion, my best friends wedding (he is eclipsed by me in this picture) and there is the ‘health’ thing. Time to do something ‘for real’!
I returned to WeightWatchers with renewed dedication. My starting weight this time was a svelte 392 lbs., it is this weight that I refer to in my weekly weigh-in posts and in the Ticker Factory widget you see at the top of my blog.
WeightWatchers says my goal weight is between 155 and 180. I swear, if I get down that low I’ll look like an anorexic. So right now I’m putting my target at 200lbs.
Stay tuned, I’m believe that the accountability of FatBloggers will see me through

I read about The Diet Pulpit’s Honesty Challenge on Healthy Honi’s blog. I hope I am the first of the FatBloggers to post their ‘Ten Reasons”. Not being one to pass up a good meme, here we go!

List the 10 reasons you HONESTLY want to lose weight. It can be positive changes that will need to be made, or it can be the reasons deep down you want to make these changes.

1. I want to feel better in my40’s than I did in my 30’s.

2. Since you don’t see Willard Scott wishing a Happy Birthday to a fat guy, I need to make a change.

3. I was always embarrassed when my fat parents would show up at school events. I wanted to crawl into a hole when my friends would ask, “Are they your parents?”. I don’t want to put my kids through that more than I already have.

4. Just ask my wife, I love to buy clothes. Do you realize how much MORE fun that would be if I could buy ‘off the rack’?

5. After losing just 30lbs. my knees don’t hurt as bad and I have more energy. I want to see what it will feel like to lose 100 lbs.

6. I want to do Cycle Oregon.

7. I want to be able to fit behind the wheel of my dream car, 1966 Mustang Fastback.

8. I want to fit comfortably in the rides at Disneyland.

9. I want to ENJOY traveling with my wife in retirement, being those retired couples that walk along the beach wearing matching blue windbreakers.

10. I most definitely still want to be enjoying the “marriage bed” when we get back to the Winnebago.

TAG… you’re it.

I do love it when things work out the way they are supposed to. Jan, my Weight Watchers leader, gives us ‘bravo stickers’ for; tracking everyday, working out at least 5x, and drinking all your water. It’s pretty amazing, that when you do those things, you lose weight! Go figure!

Anton, drum roll if you will…

Week 16 has the scale DOWN another 4.8 lbs. for a TOTAL LOSS of 31.4 lbs.

Only 7.6 lbs until the first BIG benchmark.

Cross published over on Rejecting Your Reality.

I’m still yo-yoing between 235 and 237. Just call me Duncan. At least I’m not getting any heavier than that, so hopefully things will pull forward again soon. It’s getting better weather here now, so hopefully more walking is in the near future. I seem to do better when I have some kind of routine, and the routine has been suffering as of late, so maybe that’s partly to blame for my lack of attention to exercise and eating healthier. Thanks again for all those who are supporting me.

Speaking of supporting someone, I just got a visit from my buddy Greg, from http://www.fatguyblog.com. He’s still hanging in there, he just hasn’t had much time to blog lately. His heel spurs are still acting up, though, so exercise for him has been much lessened. I tried to give him some encouragement. I enjoyed his visit, even though I wish I wouldn’t have been at work and spent more time with him. Greg is one of those guys whho, even though I haven’t known him that long, I feel I can talk to him about nearly anything. He’s a lot of fun to talk to, and I’m grateful that his blog led me to contact him and make a new friend. We have a lot of similar interests and I always am enlightened in some ways when he has time to visit. I know a lot of you that read my blog also read his, so I thought I would let you know he is doing okay.

Well, over on fatguyblog.com, there is an ad for realage.com, where you can take a test to see what your real age is. That means, what your calender age is adjusted by how well (or not) you have taken care of your body. Some people are older than their calender age and some people who may be older in years that are in good health can be several years younger “real age”. To be honest, I did it just for kicks, but I was a bit nervous about it. I expected the results to look something like: Calender age: 38.7 Real age: Methuselah.

Instead, with just a minimum amount of information (some things I just didn’t know), I came out just shy of two years older, between 40 and 41. While this still stinks (time flies fast enough without being unhealthy speeding it up) I was better off than I had hoped. Getting healthier, though, can cause that trend to reverse.

Its not a bad little test, so if you’re interested in taking it yourself, go to www.realage.com.

The Incredible Shrinking Ladies have a post called “My first ‘official’ fatblogging post.” 

We’ve created a verb, gentlemen. 

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Let’s not face reality » No More Mr. Fat Guy!

Greg Todd at No More Mr. Fat Guy has a great article on the utopian idea of a food that tastes great, and that you can eat as much as you want but never gain weight.  Apparently, they’re trying this very idea in Holland.  Greg’s point is that this is something that simply won’t work.  We already have those kinds of foods, and they’re called fruits and vegetables.  We need to alter our taste in foods, not the foods that already taste good to us.  You’re not going to keep your weight down unless you watch what you eat and get some exercise.  It really is that simple.  Good stuff.

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