Week 2 Day 2

Holy smokes down a total of 9.6 pounds thus far and that is keeping me ahead of the one pound a day goal. It's really 50 in 60 days, but fractions are a nuisance.

No real issues with hunger pains or cravings. I am still pretty much eating what I want to eat (See the Mtn Dew WoW and the multiple candy bars) and my exercising is still pretty much limited to parking farther away and walking and doing some stretching and free weights. The exercise bike is getting less attention than my love life and that ain't getting any attention at all.

I wonder if the diet pills that suggest drinking 64 ounces of water or more in three hours have worked out some scheme where all that processing of water equals burning just enough calories and keeps you from eating too much too early to all but guarantee some loss.

Also another comment about why you should (or at least why I did) measure yourself at various locations on your person.

I know there is some psychology to weight gain and body image just like for anorexia but maybe reversed. I see myself today in the mirror and think "not bad" even though Chris from 1997 would puke at the same image. I also think if my chest is x inches and my waist is x – y inches than I still look, I think I'll use this word, proportional. So even though I don't know without measures that I am proportional I still see myself that way when I look in the mirror. And if I put on a t-shirt I can pretend to myself that I look fantastic.

However, once I measured the areas mentioned on Sunday of week one I could no longer pretend that what I see and reality were the same thing. While my chest was X and my hips were barely an x – y number, the "Middle" number was x + z. Easily seen, even by me, in a profile view but I was still "not sure" this was true until then. That made me crap myself a little bit. So in the measurements department I need to lose not only y, but also z to see the kind of improvements I am hoping for and get my actual body to match what I think my body should be.

For all you math guys, no cheating as all variables are real numbers with no negatives (so y can't be a -3 making is x - -3, ya know?).

I picked Chris from 1997 because that was my best year weight and image-wise, ah to be 27 and under 250 lbs again.

Slowly dropping my calories per day too, not because I am intentional skipping food, but mostly from a lack of snacking and just choosing different, healthier options. It's not easy, but so far it's been easier than I thought it would be.