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Gaining Weight For No Good Reason

by John Bonk January 17, 2011
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Sometimes weight loss does not make sense.  It can make the overall journey very hard.  As of Saturday morning I was down 1.2 pounds, then after my hard work out on Saturday my weight spiked the next morning and stayed that way on Monday.  If you check my blog something similar happened starting back in [...]

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Random Thoughts on Progress

by John January 11, 2011
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I’ve lost 13 pounds over the last two months, which is a little ahead of the pace I have challenged myself with. So of course I am very happy with that. But I also know that these 13 pounds are going to be the easiest. I started off at 304, which is the highest I [...]

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Short Week Update

by John Bonk January 10, 2011
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Last Weeks Weight: 232.2 pounds This Weeks Weight: 229.4 pounds Weight lost: 2.8 pounds MFD Estimated loss: 1.4 pounds Total weight loss: 86.6 pounds This was one of those strange weeks.  Per my estimates I should have only lost 1.4 pounds, but I ended up losing twice that.  I am in no way complaining but [...]

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Planning for Another Good Week

by John December 27, 2010
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Last week I did something I had never done before which was to post, ahead of time, what I was planning to eat for the week. Coming into last week I had five straight weeks of losing weight and I wanted to go for a sixth, but I knew that with being out on the [...]

Beating the Plateau

by John Bonk December 20, 2010
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For a 6 week period I had only lost 3.6 pounds.  I had let some of my eating habits slip just enough where those 2 pounds per week started becoming ½ a pound average per week.  This is not acceptable.  Since I started posting my weekly updates here I have taken back my weight loss [...]

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This is a Pie

by Pie December 19, 2010

My name is Brandon, my friends call me Pie. I suppose partly due to the weight and the other half to the butchering of Gillespie. Anyhow I’m about to turn 22 years old in April, I’m a hair over 6 foot tall and weigh currently 306.8 pounds. not my overall high but close enough to [...]

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I Need a Good Week

by John December 19, 2010
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Somehow I managed to lose a pound over the last week, but I did so while making numerous poor decisions despite a week that I should have been able to do well. This week has me nervous, because it is really important that I keep my streak going (losses 5 weeks in a row) but [...]

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Another Great Weigh-in!

by John Bonk December 13, 2010
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Last Monday’s Weight: 236.2 Today’s Weight: 231.4 Pounds Lost This Week: 4.8 pounds Estimated Weight loss per myfooddiary.com: 1.9 pounds Total weight loss: 84.6 pounds Weight wise you cannot ask for any more than this.  4.8 pounds is an amazing week.  Oddly this morning’s weight actually was within the range I saw on the scale [...]

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Allow me to introduce myself

by John Bonk November 29, 2010
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Hello.  My name is John, yes another John.  I started blogging my weight loss 265 days ago.  About a month ago I decided that I wanted to try to get more exposure for my blog, The Journey of a Fat Man.  I started searching the internet for other weight loss blogs, especially those by men, [...]

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