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August 17, 2006
No sleeves!
The first and only photo of me taken in California.
Posted by west at 01:13 AM | Comments (0)
We're done counting days
I'm back and ready to rumble
I'm back! And I am sure my readership has dwindled down to nothing. That's ok. Word of mouth will pick up again and this will be the most popular weight-loss blog run out of my bedroom ever!
Oh, by the way, I have a bedroom now. Not just a studio apartment. So you could say I am living in the lap of luxury. You could say that, but you would be wrong. Also, there is a new photo of me underneath this entry. Check it out.
Ok, so it has been nearly a month since I have last posted and there is one very good reason for that: My internet connection was non existent. For the last three weeks I have been living life with a high speed connection at work, where i didn't have the necessary web address to update the blog (a result of a lack of foresight in not emailing it to myself). At home I have been using my roommate's dialup connection, where I also didn't have the necessary web address to update. But now the high speed is back on, my computer is up and running and this blog can resume.
And resume it will. I am hoping for updates at least three times per week, if not every day. Maybe it will morph into something other than a total weight loss blog, but that is the chance I am willing to take.
As for the weight loss, let's set some goals that aren't really in stone. I would like to get to 240 by Christmas. If I don't get there, then so be it. As long as I take off some significant weight between now and then I will be happy. The idea here is that I want to look better going home in December than I did going home in June.
The plan is to recapture the magic from the first 100 days. So I am gonna go back and look at the food journals and devise the best plan I can. There will be, however, more leeway in the diet, meaning that I can go out and have a few beers now and again or I can go out to dinner. I am preparing for an eventual social life here in California.
Oh yeah, California. I haven't even brought that up yet. In case you weren't following the last few days before the dropoff, I moved to California, more specifically the East Bay, 30 miles north of San Francisco, in July. I am three weeks into my new job and it is going pretty well. It is a much better place that Colorado. Now, if I could only meet some people to go drinking with.
Actually, I do have someone to go drinking with. I have a roommate named Chris who is a pretty cool guy. We both like the ladies, but have trouble getting them to touch us in our special places. It's ok. I feel a breakthrough for both of us. We've been out around here a few times and, sad to say, the town I live in is not happening. However, the reason that is ok is very simple: There are a bunch of cool towns within 20 minutes of here. Napa is just to the north (That's wine country) Berkely is 20 minutes south. Also, San Francisco is about a 40 minute drive. So everything works out. In Colorado, there was nothing to do and the nearest cool place was an hour and a half away. So you can see that this is a better social situation.
I have to admit, the transistional phase has not been good to the diet. However, an odd thing has happened in the last few weeks. When I was packing everything, I tried some of my tighter clothes on and they were still tight. About a week ago, I tried them on again and everything in my wardrobe - and I mean everything - fit perfectly. The tightest thing I had - a long sleeved t shirt that comemorated the 1980 US Olympic hockey team (I got it in 2000 while I was doing my internship with USA Hockey and when, coincidentally, I was also 270) is now almost baggy. I wore it to work one day last week.
So what happened? It seems that I have lost some weight, even though I haven't really been sticking to a regimen. I haven't been eating shit for three weeks, though. I have simply relaxed the diet. But still, every morning I have a bowl of oatmeal and there have been a lot of tuna. Also, exercise isn'texactly happening right now. There is no more free gym membership. That means the next time I work out it will be on my own dime. Right now I am just trying to figure out how many dimes I have to put towards that. I definitely want to start working out again. I think there is a hot body inside me somewhere. Just gotta find it.
So all is well here. I may be going to San Fran on Thursday. If not, I am hitting the grovery store. But I just want y'all to know that I'm back.
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