Time Rotor

I’ve kept to the plan closely so far. Half my normal portions at meal time and only one snack between breakfast/lunch and lunch/dinner, which has to be either fruit or vegetable. Though I know weight will fluctuate a couple pounds here and there, I’m down to 318 by the scale. At least that much makes me happy and gives me something to look at for progress.

Here’s a cooking tip: don’t make hamburger patties, stick them in the fridge until dinner, then put them directly into a preheated oven. I made that mistake and didn’t end up with cooked patties as much as hamburger balls with a hard outter shell filled with grease. Horrible. Just horrible.

January 4, 2013

The New Year has begun with success!  I got up and exercised, then walked the dogs.  I had oatmeal for breakfast and weighed in at 321 pounds. So far I’ve only had an apple for a snack today.  Here’s praying for the strength and will to continue!

January 1, 2013

So I completely went off the diet plan for my last weekend before the big start.  I didn’t get up early and walk the dogs for various reasons, and ate Chinese and pizza in large quantities.  Not horribly large, but large nonetheless.

Still looking forward to beginning this venture, however.

Meanwhile, I’ve had a rather depressing weekend to say the least.  On top of my brother and his wife leaving for 3 years, my wife went north to be with her family during New Year’s.  I can’t go with her due to work.  So that leaves me here alone.  I’m not the type to have “friends”, per se.  I don’t want to get on any kind of a “pity me I’m so lonely” rant, so suffice it to say I’m just not the “Hey, let’s go see a movie!” type.  I have one friend and he’s got a new girlfriend.  I’ve said enough on that.

So I’ll be ringing in the New Year my own way; going to bed early (since I have to get up at 4am for work the next morning) and snoozing my way through the ball drop, Old Lang Syne, and Dick Clark..  Is he still alive?

December 31, 2012

First off, I didn’t exercise or take the dogs walking this morning. I took my little sister to see The Hobbit last night. That means I sat with my neck craned upward for 3 hours. Thus I woke up with an incredible neck pain. I could barely turn, much less do anything else physical. So I took the morning off. I did do laundry and wash dishes, thought.

My brother noticed my scale was off by about 5 pounds before he left yesterday. I’ve finally gotten around to fixing that, so it’s accurate now. See, this is why I’m starting this whole thing early! I can work out the problems before I actually start.  So officially, I weigh 321 pounds as of this morning.

I also stayed up late watching the 80’s Ninja Turtles cartoons. Just saying. Ninja Turtles Rock. Cowabunga.

PS: I want the date on these blogs, but not sure how to do that just yet.  I’ll be putting the date on them myself until it can be done automatically.

December 29, 2012

Today was the last day I will see my brother for 3 years.  He is going overseas as a missionary.  I will miss him greatly, but he’s doing the right thing.  He’ been called to help people and spread hope.  I wish him the best and pray he will come back to his family when he is done.  Meanwhile, I’ll actually see him on Skype more often then I have the past few years anyway.
On to the matter at hand.  I made my brother and his wife baked chicken last night, so nothing unhealthy there.  I got a later start walking the dogs this morning, since I didn’t have to get up for work and the going away goodbyes and all.  But I still did it.
I weighed in at 329 pounds, which may discourage some.  I’ve been told not to weigh in everyday because of just such an occurance.  I will continued to weigh, just understand it will fluctuate daily.  Also, I weighed before walking the dogs, so that may have made a difference.
I splurged a bit on breakfast; pancakes.  Last time, swear.
Tonight it’s the Hobbit with my little sister, but no butter on the popcorn!
Cheers.

So I did great yesterday.  My.. what would you call it? Diet? Plan? Schedule? Thing I’m following is completely usable.  I only broke down when I had pizza with my brother.  Seeing as how it’s not really January yet, I’m not worrying about it too much.

But I weighed in at 326 lbs. this morning.  I blame the 6 pounds extra on pizza and the fact that I didn’t technically weigh in yesterday.  I just went off what I saw the last time I weighed; which could have been 2 weeks ago.  I’m confident I can be down to 320 for the start of this thing by January 1st.  I’m through all the Thanksgiving meals and Christmas cookies.  That’s the whole reason behind waiting until January to start.

Anyway, be back tomorrow, bright and early.

As of right now, this blog will be my public journal for my quest to lose weight.  I will detail the course I’m taking to achieve that goal and post my results daily.  Whether or not anyone actually reads this is not really important.  I just want my story out there.  That makes it realistic to me and will help me stay on track.  Though I won’t start this officially for 5 more days, I’m need to get a start early and work out any kinks.

The summary:
I have always been a big guy (fat kid).  I, like most, have struggled with it all my life.  It’s time to end it.  Officially beginning January 1st, 2013, I will abide by a very strict diet and exercise plan.  My goal is to lose 100 pounds by January, 2014.  It will be a year of complete and utter Hell for me, but I’m willing to go through it for myself, my family, and anyone needing a push to do the same as me.

I currently weigh 320 pounds.  By January 1st, 2014, I will weigh 220 pounds or less.

Pray for me.