howdy

Just an update i guess. Life is pretty much the same. BUSY< BUSY< BUSY!


see ya'll later
Jim

hi

I am down 225-230ish at the moment. Not really in much of a mood to type. will update when I feel more talkative.

later
Gareth

HI ya'll

I know I haven't updated in a while but we have been busy. I got offered a position in the student help desk department here in IT. I took it and am really enjoying learning new stuff. Thanks Woody, George, Rob and Brandi for encouraging me to try out for it! Now I hope I am good enough after my probationary period that I can eventuallly parley this into a full time position.

update so far

Hi all,

Justa quick post to let you all know what is going on in my life. I am now sitting at a total loss of 210 which brings my BMI( body mass index) to 52.8, not bad considering it started out at 81.3. I am not super happy about how much I have lost this month, but my measurement have shown that where i am not losing lbs i am losing inches. Also I am working out more and doing more walking, so I think I am gaining muscle mass and it doesn't really reflect on the scales you know. But it does affect the tape measure! Welll I will update later I guess. I need to finish filling out an application for a new help desk position( hope I get it).

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!

Ok, This morning before I went to work, my lovely wife, Brandi, and I stopped off at the Diabetic center to get me weighed for the week. Now I have had really bad kidney stones for about 2 weeks now, and the antibiotics were messing with my system, pretty much stuffing me up, if you get my meaning. But I have been drinking TONS of water to try and flush out those painful lil buggers out of my kidneys. I haven't been feeling like eat much for the past week, and Brandi understood, pain does that to me, why eat if you feel so nausiated that you don't know if you will keep it down anyway? So as to speed things along with the anitibiotics I have been eating some bad things, things that would normally now send me running to the bathroom within an hour, to get things going once again. But I digress......meanwhile back at the diabetic center this morning as I got weighed. I had to do it 3 time just to make sure, I have finally hit the 200 lbs mile marker, pasted it actually, I am sitting at 399lbs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????? I realy don't know what to say here, I am in awe!!! 200 lbs in 9 months, HOLY FREAKING CRAP BATMAN!!!


Well I have to go do some cartwheels now, be back soon.

Jim

weighed today

Before going to work this morning I stopped of at the Diabetic center to get weighed. I am now sitting at 410, which means i am 190 lbs down. Needless to say i am pretty happy today. My wife says when i hit the 200 lbs make she is gonna throw a party. I told her I wanted to go to a strip club.... she laughed at me.....sigh. Channeling Rodney Dangerfield... no respect...no respect at all!!! I am feeling alot better over all, and am getting around great. Things I would never have considered doing I am now doing on a regular basis. I am hoping I can ride a bike soonly, not sure what the weight limit is on them though. I know pretty much for sure that it will have to be a beach cruiser type bike, because then I can have the wide seat to fit my still big , but rapidly dwindling butt.

My friend Woody wants me to eventually try fencing with him. Still kinda out on this issue. I think it would be fun, but not sure i am all THAT mobile yet. I may be able to move a bit better but hey I have to admit, trying to fence with size 14 feet is not gonna be fun. Kinda like olympic fencing with Ronald McDonald... I might wear the wig ontop of the helmet just to distract him....lol.


Well I am off for a little while , see you next time on ......"The Incredible Shrinking Man!"

hi ya'll

Ok, some recent news about me. My wife and I went shopping for pants for me this weekend, because mine were about to fall off. Brandi said it was time to buy a pair or pay a ticket for indecent exposure. Well when we got there and tried stuff on, I was pretty amazed to find out how much my weight loss has begun to show, I was able to get into a pair of 2X sweatpants. Now just 7 months ago I was wearing 5X, and I have to say I am pretty proud of myself. I was trying on jeans too, I could fit pretty good in a pair of 62's but definatly not in the 58's I tried, probably could do a pair of 60's with elastic around the waist. Gonna put off buying more jeans right now though, too expensive to buy something I am not gonna fit into in just a few months, you know? I went from a 6X shirt to a 4X, but am putting off buying shirts for just a lil while.

I am, as of monday, down 183, which brings me to 417 lbs. WOOOOOHOOO!!!!! If I work really hard and eat right and work out a bit more I might actually make it to 200 lbs lost by my 8 month anniversary on the 7th of march. Now that would be really cool, 8 months out and down 1/3 of my body weight.

Another really proud moment I had this week. I went to my apartment complex gym, and got on the tredmill. I walked 1 mile!!!!! Haven't done that in a very long time. Then I lifted weights for another 30-45 mins , and then walked home. Wow, definately make major progress. The next morning I was a lil sore in the joints , but once I got moving I was pretty much ok.


Well I will write again as soon as someting else exciting happens