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I don’t know how they do it in other states, but here in Oregon our drivers licenses expire every eight years on our birthday. Well, my birthday is on Sunday (you should have started shopping for my gift by now) and I went into my friendly local DMV to get a new picture taken and update the info.

First off, I put my truthful weight on it for the first time, ever. Secondly, the picture. I didn’t think to scan the old picture before I surrendered it, but I think I have something to compare it to.

This picture was taken in August 2004.

And this is my mug shot from earlier today.

Granted the DMV is not known for its professional portraits and the goal is to look like you would when one of Pendleton’s finest pulls you over for a chat. I don’t know about you, but I see a significant reduction in the number of chins I carry around.

Another great week for me. I lost 4 pounds which puts me at 265. The past three weeks have me on an incredible high, but I am starting to dread the plateau that I am sure is right around the corner.

This is the first time in the past 10 years that I have managed to keep up with eating healthy and exercising at the same time. I hope that by continuing the combination I can stave off the plateau for a while longer.

Have a great weekend everybody.

Tony
6/27: 265 lbs.
Goal: 220 lbs.
45 lbs. to go

P.S.

If you are looking for a healthier alternative for grilling out this weekend, check out my recipe for Hawaiian Turkey Burgers and Grilled Yams. They were a big hit with my family on Wednesday night.

Greetings all,

My name is Tony.

Here’s my quick bio:
I am 33 years old. I am married to my soul mate. I have two beautiful 18-month old daughters. I am a copywriter at an ad agency in Minneapolis, MN. I am 5′11 and as of this morning I weigh 269 pounds.

I have struggled with my weight ever since graduating from college, but over the last two years things have really gotten out of hand. While my wife was pregnant with our girls I sort of adopted her diet. A diet that was fine for a women who was eating for three, not so fine for someone eating for one. By January of this past year I was up to 288 pounds.

In the past six months I have yo-yo’d around. Eating healthy then binge eating then eating healthy again. I think I am finally ready to get serious. Part of getting serious has been telling my family and friends about my problem and asking for their help. That’s what brought me here as well.

Thank you Rick for inviting me to this site. I look forward to getting to know all of you better.

If anyone is intrested I am blogging daily about my ups and downs here. I am a writer though, so some of my post can get a little wordy.

Tony

It’s been 5 weeks since my last fatbloggers weigh-in, so I figure I’m way past due for an update!  The last month has been hectic to an insane degree, having to finalize and release a big software project for work.  Well, two days ago the release was completed, out the door, done.  It feels good to have that monkey off my back for sure.  I stuck to the diet through the stress though, and the weightloss has steadily continued.

At my last fatbloggers weigh-in 5 weeks ago, I was at 281 pounds.  I started this week at 267.8 pounds, for a total loss of 13.2 pounds.  That’s an average of 2.64 pounds / week, which I’m happy with.  At that rate I’ll be a shell of my former self in less than a year.  

 It really helps me to take the “long term trend” approach to weight loss.  I record my weight daily, but I’ve trained myself to just write down the number, and to not worry if the number is higher or the same than the day before.  It’s all about the trend.  As long as the trend continues downward over time, I know things are good.

I was checking out our incoming links this evening when I came across this article written by Kimberly Sherman at CalorieLab Calorie Counter News back on June 14.   Take a few minutes to read it, it’s quite flattering.  Thanks Kimberly! 

Here’s a link to the original article:

Diet blogs: Men banding together to lose weight (CalorieLab Calorie Counter News)

This has been a great week for posts here at FatBloggers, maybe the best yet. I truly appreciate everybody’s candor, insightfulness, and willingness to open up. We’re all in this together.

I’ve included a section in our column called “Quotable”, which shows snippets of posts and comments that I’ve found particularly intriguing. If you’d like to nominate something some time, just let me know.

Also, our newest poll asks, as a percentage, how close are you to getting to your goal weight? I look forward to seeing how you’re all doing! Weekend, here we come…

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Gained 2.4 lbs.

Total lost 27.8 lbs.

Forgive me fatbloggers for I have binged.  I took almost 2 weeks off from working out, and really didn’t think twice about what I stuffed in my head.

I’ve really been in a tail spin ever since I was challenged at my “appt.” a couple of weeks ago to count calories.  I’ve always despised even the thought of counting calories.  I tried it for 3 meals and bailed…..

I’m currently unmotivated and couldn’t care less if I ever set foot on a treadmill ever again (I have walked 3 days this week so far).

 Thoughts or encouragements?……..

I’m a lot more interested in the numbers of pounds we’re all losing than the numbers of people visiting this site, but it’s fun to stop sometimes and take a look at the traffic we’re getting here at FatBloggers.net.  I fired up this site in January and got it going in earnest in March, and it’s been amazing to see our regular visitors grow.  I love reading the posts and comments you all bring here. 

Since starting up in January, we have had over 6,000 distinct hosts served.  If there’s about one person per host,  and if you take away the usual number of Google bots and other spiders crawling us for indexing purposes, you still have a lot of people checking us out.  I hope you’ve been able to find something on here that helps you on your weight loss journey. 

Here’s a chart I put together using OpenOffice.org that shows our weekly growth since January:

My other blog had a similar spike the week ending April 29, so I wonder if there were a high number of search engine spiders out and about that week. 

And we’re not done yet.  We all still have some weight to lose, and we’re always on the lookout for some good contributors here.  Thanks for a great first three months!

I successfully upgraded to WordPress 2.2 this evening.  If you’re running a custom WP blog yourself, this would be a good thing to do, but as far as I know there aren’t any security issues if you can’t get to it right away.  Aesthetically, there’s nothing different.  Widgets are on by default, instead of being a plugin that you have to download and install.  There’s also some Atom support and a few other things I don’t quite understand.  Check out these “10 Things You Should Know About WordPress 2.2” if you’re interested in that sort of thing. 

Not much in the way of weight loss tonight.  I am going for a walk in a little bit.  I’m not sure what the Hammerin’ Hank picture is all about, I just thought it was appropriate for this time in baseball history. 

Peace out, homies.

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Hi, my name is Paul, and I’m a fataholic.

Since that could mean anything from a fat alcoholic to a chubby chaser, I guess I had better clarify.  I’m fat.  “Obese” the doctors like to say.  I’m happy to report however that I’m quite a bit less obese than I was 4 months ago when I started dieting.  Still obese though.  Still a long way to go.  I started the diet weighing 334 lbs, and I’m down to 285.

Just this month (May 2007) I decided I’d start writing about my journey losing the weight and the quest to keep it off.  Anybody can lose a bunch of weight and gain it all back plus more.  I’ve done it a number of times.  I’m ready to stop the cycle this time around.

Sure, I say that now, but I’ve said that before.  So what’s different this time?  This time my dieting isn’t going to be my dirty little secret that I’m ashamed off.  This time I’m going public, both on my new site, Sucks To Be Fat, and here on Fatbloggers.net, thanks to Rick’s generous invitation!  So anyone that has an interest can keep tabs on me and my success or lack thereof. 

I look forward to all our continued success losing weight, and keeping each other on track through our mini online support group here.

Thanks for reading!