Year 4 Week 29 Day 202

I have reached the point where rice cakes with Nutella and peanut butter are a cheat food.
Yep, living the good life.

In case you didn’t know it’s about 500 calories.  I don’t know the carbs, probably pretty high too, stupid rice cakes.

Here are the numbers:

	6/22/2012	6/29/2012	7/6/2012	7/20/2012	LW
Neck	17.00	17.00	17.50	17.25	(0.25)
Left Arm	14.50	14.00	14.50	15.25	0.75
Shoulders	54.50	53.25	54.00	52.00	(2.00)
Chest	50.00	50.25	50.50	50.50	-
Waist	45.50	47.25	47.50	47.00	(0.50)
Hips	43.00	44.00	43.75	44.50	0.75
Left Thigh	23.50	23.50	25.00	24.75	(0.25)
Left Calf	17.50	17.50	17.50	17.00	(0.50)
Left Ankle	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.00	-
Left Wrist	7.50	7.25	7.25	7.25	-
BP	150/89	134/86	141/92	130/84	-
Pulse	69.00	68.00	74.00	62.00	(6.00)
Weight	265.60	268.60	273.60	271.20	2.60

A little bit back on track now.  A few missteps as I acknowledge that without a contest to motivate me I am trying to find the right way to eat for myself.  Not every day is a good day and I suppose not every week will be a good week.

I also wonder if there are times of the year where you are more able to lose weight based on biology.  Like in the summer you’d think that you expend more energy so you crave more food and hopefully they balance out, then in the winter you’re expending less energy so you crave less food so it might be easier to lose weight in the winter.  I should google this topic.

Well, that wasn’t helpful.  After getting through seasons of TV shows on weight loss and Christmas season weight gain there seems to be no consensus and the general guideline says whatever the season there are things you can do to offset anything that slows or stops losing weight.

Bah humbug!

For the record I seem to do really well (for whatever reason) in the Spring and Fall and have trouble in the Winter (expected) and the Summer (weird).

I tried to get back into exercise this week and made in a day and a half before ruining my left shoulder, possibly for life.

Thank God it’s not my masturbation arm!

I probably just slept on it wrong but it makes showering tough so weights and swinging arm movements are out.

Yes, I am a big baby.

Diary of a Fat Kid

I think it was 1979 to around 1981, I am terrible placing these events in the right year, when my Dad got his stomach stapled in an attempt to lose weight.

It wasn’t a particularly safe surgery back then and it isn’t much better now.  The things I think about this today revolve more around how he paid for it since I don’t think insurance covered it.  I also remember all his food had to be blended into essentially apple sauce consistency. 

My favorite attempt at this was Mac n’ Cheese.  Now forgetting for a moment that said food was everything that was wrong about a person’s diet (refined white flour, butter, milk and whatever is in that awesome orange powder) it was putting it into the blender that was the greatest thing ever in the imagination of a child.

A giant ball.

That’s right, if you take properly prepared Kraft Mac n’ Cheese and toss it into a blender for several minutes you get a giant orange ball.  I didn’t taste it but I’ll assume it kept its pseudo-cheesy flavor.  It may have been like those cheese balls you see around Christmas time and I never asked Dad how it tasted.

Needless to say, the stapling didn’t last him all that long.

He and my Mom both tried a variety of diets and she still tries today.

I think that’s what happens in life, you just keep trying.

When I last saw my own doctor (3 years ago and counting) he suggested I try gastric bypass if I didn’t start losing weight on my own. 

A few weeks later I started this blog.

And don’t let my mom cook for you, especially her blender Mac n’ Cheese.

Later!