Week 21 Day 1

Seven weeks down and life to go.

The mantra is "one week, one pound."

Last week was 323.0 and Monday morning's was 321.4, that is -1.6 if I did the math right. So next week's minimum is 319.2.

So I missed the goal for the second time and it still sucks. I am still tracking as if I lost the one pound for two weeks hence the minimum of 319.2 instead of 320.4.

Obviously I have no one to blame but myself. Maybe that is why people get married, so they have someone else to blame when they get fatter. What sucks is that while I still enjoyed a nice dinner on Friday night and Saturday night I didn't eat a lot of food during the day. The burger and chili cheese fries at the Mac on Sunday night might have been a tipping point. Really the issue is the lack of aerobic activity and the portion sizes of my meals. Low calorie and high volume is great, but especially when eating out I have trouble getting the low calorie part while still desiring high volume. So my brother is right I have to wean down my meals to shrink down the capacity of the old stomach. It probably helps him that he has undiagnosed stomach cancer or a tapeworm or something.

So now this week is hell, again, because the penalty clause remains and I took the Healthe Trim this morning. That means NO caffeine this week and drinking water all morning and waiting three hours before breakfast. If I miss again next week, I think the clause is removal of a limb, but I'll just be back to tracking calories and taking food pictures again. Good times. (edit) I think the second week penalty will be walking to and from the mail box at home and/or sitting on the exercise bike for 15 minutes. We'll see how it goes.

The second goal? The second goal is getting better.

I did my seven minute morning perk up five times last week. It's not bad and I am still trying out different exercises. Still looking to add an evening seven minute workout before going to bed or a bit earlier. Now that the weather went from way too hot to way too cold I am still dubious about walking outside. Plus the whole swine flu thing has me leery of people and the outdoors in general.

Took the clothes to Goodwill and now I am cleaning up the stacks of bills to be filed and generally getting the office in shape again. I got a wireless printer/scanner/copier so I could move some furniture around and remove the old scanner. Now I really can launch a space shuttle with 2 Desktops and a Laptop running at the same time. After getting the bills and my checkbook for 2009 straightened out I have to work on cleaning out the office closet. Probably time to dump the old comic books. Anyone want 20,000 or so comics? Cheap. Plus I have assorted collectable, that term is used loosely, cards.

Still have way too many books filled with way too much crap too. CDs, DVDs, cassette tapes, action figures and the like are also taking up too much space in my place. I'll be happy if I don't have to move all that stuff in the next transition.

'til then I will keep on keeping on.

Later.