“This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.”
— Omar N. Bradley
Weight 275.3
I saw online that Chaz Bono has lost 43 pounds of the 80 pounds that he wants to lose. It can be done.
When it is obvious that the goal cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goal; adjust the action steps to the goal.
Confucius
Weight 275.8
I feel so much better. The wife has it now and she seems to have it worse than I did. It’s never easy.
Back on the diet and have started a new exercise, push-ups. My shoulder has bothered me a bit because at work I didn’t have power steering in my UPS truck for the first 30 years I drove. I know, it’s nuts. That’s just the way it was.
Anyway, I’m going to start with modified push-ups on the stairs and do three sets every other day. As I progress I will lower a step until I’m on the floor. We will see how this goes.
It’s snowing heavily and the forecast is 30 F the first week of March. I have this fantasy that March 1st it will be sunshine and fifty but I may have to wait a couple weeks.
Another skinsuit that I like.
This evening my buddy Alan said he like the Tron suit. I told him I’d make it look good, the jumbotron.
Obesity is really widespread.
Joseph O. Kern II
Weight 276
I’m starting to feel a little better. My head has cleared and I feel like I can actually get out of bed today and do a few things/
On a sadder note another of my retiree friends died this week. I was too sick to go to his showing but I was there in spirit. I’ve been retired for a year and a half after working 37 years at UPS. I retired young at 55 but most stay longer. Once they retire many die within five years. The plan is to get myself as healthy as I can and milk that pension plan for forty years or more. We’ll see.
It’s funny, here I am a retiree but I don’t feel old in the least. I still feel the way I’ve always felt. The only thing affected is my eyesight. I still have a full head of hair and it’s only partially gray.
I really hated my job. The long hours, the constant harassment over production, the dogs, the weather and the customers. I’m glad I’m out.
Right now it is 19 F outside with light snow and some wind. Spring will be coming soon and free from work I can become the person I’ve always known myself to be.
I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don’t eat! Who knew?”
Richelle E. Goodrich
Weight: Who give a rat’s ass?
Laying in bed with my iPad trying to organize my thoughts. I was able to sleep but woke every few hours with my chest gurgling.
I realized that yesterday should have been a summary day but when you are this sick it’s hard to do anything but focus on sleep.
I’m going to skip the summary this week and wait until the 28th and do my monthly summary.
Once again snow is falling and all I can do is dream about nice weather and being on my bike. For the first time in my life I can imagine leaving Ohio for warmer climates. As I lay here my mind wanders.
I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food
Erma Bombeck
Weight: Sick
Whatever I have has moved into my lungs causing coughing fits and overall pain. The sneezing feels like some spastic slap on the back. I’ve spoken to friends and they all call it The Plague. It moved through their families sometimes over days and sometimes over weeks. I had a fitful sleep last night and will be back in bed soon.
Forget about calories – everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
Weight 274.8
Slightly better. I have absolutely no energy. Every few hours I have to get back into bed and sleep.
Last night a thick blanket of snow fell and I am so glad I am retired. For so many years I worked ten to twelve hours a day in the weather. I don’t miss it.
I’m pretty sure there’s a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.
Derek Zoolander
Weight 274.6
Slept all day yesterday. My nose has been running like a fire hose. That’s okay because noses run in my family. Feel worse today. I’ve been living on chicken broth. I can feel the salt saturate my body. I’ll probably gain ten pounds of water weight this weekend. I can’ t remember the last time I felt this bad. Oh well, Spring will be here soon. All will be right with the world.
I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn’t live the rest of my life like a rabbit.
Mike Huckabee
Weight 274.4
Sick as a dog. It’s been going around. The plan is to spend the day in bed and see if it passes.
I’m a little concerned as many of my friends have been sick for weeks. We’ll see how it goes.
I’ve decided that perhaps I’m bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge.
Paula Poundstone
Weight 272.3
Couple things.
I spend time on the Bike Forums and they were talking about acronyms. One I had never heard before was MAMIL = Middle Aged Male in Lycra. Made me laugh.
Then I went on the dreaded Facebook and saw that an old customer of mine had posted a funny that had to do with weight loss. He surprises me sometimes.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
George Dennison Prentice
Weight 275.2
Definitely stuck at a plateau. I’ve lowered calories and increased my exercise and I feel thinner. I feel as though the dam is about to break. I now see why I gave up in the past. Not giving up any more.
Chubby For Life? 