100 Days

What I ate today

Breakfast (8:30 a.m.)
2 servings of oatmeal
Calories: 200
Fat: 4 grams

Lunch (12 p.m.)
4 slices of bread
4 slices of turkey
2 servings of fat free mayo
1 serving of cottage cheese
1 Special K cereal bar
Calories: 520
Fat: 7 grams

Snack (4 p.m.)
Several servings of red grapes
Calories: 124 (according to calorie-count.org)
Fat: .6 grams

Dinner (7 p.m.)
4 slices of bread
4 slices of turkey
2 servings of fat free mayo
1 serving of cottage cheese
1 Special K cereal bar
Calories: 520
Fat: 7 grams

Total Calories: 1,364
Total fat: 18.6 grams

Exercise: None. I have this shoot for the stars, land on the moon sort of thing going with working out. I try to do it every day. However, there are at least two days every week when I just talk myself out of it. But if that happens, then I am at least working out three or four times per week. For the record, I worked out Sunday.

The new official weight, taken Sunday after two somewhat tough days of eating (Friday was a fuck up day.), is just under 298. So what does that mean? Well, for one I lost all the weight I gained during my trip to Colorado Springs (about three pounds) and then over two more. That was over the course of a week. So way to go, me!

Right now I am having urges almost constantly. Again, nothing particularly strong, but constant. I almost stopped into the coffee shop today to get a bagel. But I got smart at the last second. I think success is going to my head. Since last week wasn’t great, as far as eating goes (see Friday’s fuck up and the fact that I went hog wild Tuesday), and I still lost five pounds (or at least some weight once you take out all the variables) I am getting cocky about what I can eat. But my smart money is on getting down to 270 and then loosening up a bit. I don’t want to work my way down to 270, I want to sprint there. However, once I get to 270, I just want to ease it down to 240 eventually. That’s been the plan all along and I see no reason to stray right now. Still, thoughts of taking one day a week to eat whatever I want have crossed my mind. It would make sense now that the 100 days is over, but I still want to lose 28 pounds by June 8, so how smart would that be?

The compliments are flying in now. First I think I’ve seen some ladies checking me out lately, but that could be my imagination. Second, a few coworkers have given me very enthusiastic compliments.

Perhaps the most unexpected compliment came from the guy at Subway. I walked in there the other day and he said “Man, the Subway thing must be working. All of a sudden, there is less of you.”

At a tennis meet the other day, a parent I didn’t know came up to me and said “So how much weight have you lost, Dan?” So I guess everyone is noticing.

I always handle these compliments the same way. It’s like a form letter, almost. I just smile shyly and say “Thank you for noticing. But there is a long way to go still.”

I think it gets the point across. I appreciate the comments, but I’m not done.

I’ve come to a conclusion about the blog. It has become increasingly difficult to update this every day because it is rare when I can find new things to say. Sure I could recap my day in each entry, but that would be kind of boring. So I think I am going to start updating three times a week, probably on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Hopefully, at least one of those updates will be something of substance, like Friday’s recap of my entire life’s battle with weight. I hope you understand that I am doing this for the quality of the blog. You don’t need to read about how confident I am in this quest anymore. Likewise for the exploits of the Subway girl (who, I found out is, indeed, still in high school. I am such a dirty old man.) So figure that I will have an entry Wednesday, then Friday then Monday and so on.

Hopefully that doesn’t screw you guys up too much.