At Thirty I thought I was going to turn it around. Get my ducks in a row, lose forty pounds, get the girl, finish school, etc. etc... On The Ides of March, 2005, I observed a bar fight that went bad, and somehow I was beaned with a poolball. I never saw the thrower of this hard, heavy object. I did end up with 16 stitches to the top of my head. I didn't think that had I not been so drunk, I may had seen it coming. So I started holing up at my house, drinking, with late night burrito runs.
May 1, 2005, my 31st birthday. Weight: 290. The most I've ever weighed. At that moment, it hit me. I couldn't not keep this up. All the eating, the drinking. Suddenly I thought about my mortality and did something about it.
I already exercised and rode my road bike, but I doubled the efforts and stopped drinking except every other weekend, rather than every other DAY.
I bought a rice cooker and made lots of brown rice. I ate lots of tuna for protein and soy milk for soy protein. And I would say the thing that helped me the most is that I cut out sugar. NO sugar in my coffee. No sweets with my coffee. No SODA!!, what!! So I made the nasty, nasty switch to Diet Soda, which I love now, funny!
At first the weight seemed to peel off until I got to 260. And I was stuck there for close to a month. But I switched up my workouts, took a break from some of the things I was eating, changed my routine and I'm going down again.
I just weighed myself this morning and 247. I have 45 days left before my 32nd birthday. I hope to add another 7 to 12 pounds onto that amount. If I do only 7, I will have lost 50 pounds in one year!!!
Bicycling to work, to the video store, to get snacks seems to have been my greatest help. I could have lost more weight but I need to better learn portion control. But when I'm lighter than I've been for 10-13 years, there's lots of reasons to celebrate.
All the "Someday" pants, shirts, and jackets, all fit me now!!!
And I get to celebrate said slimmer Birthday at Coachella with the likes of great friends, including Nat-tat-tat!!!!
The slower the better with weight loss because your body adjusts easier and you appear much tighter.
Isn't funny how we Taurus' are so enamored by the physical....whether healthy or unhealthy?
Nice work on riding on the healthy side of the street. I'm working on it.....I'm also trying to get my ducks in a row...it's a very overwhelming business at times. And I'm trying to balance patience with action. Deep breaths too. I've come a long way already, in retrospect, it's just hard to see immediately.
Lately, no news has been bad news because I'm trying to focus on the positive. Finally had a breakthrough the past 24 hours....peppered with a little disappointment that in the big picture is an expensive detail of little real value.
I'll post soon!
And we are on for Coachella! We will celebrate both of our birthdays in merriment.
We have a hotel room for both days, but who
knows, I could go home Sunday night if I stay energetic and substance free or I could take my time and cruise back on Monday (aka take the day off of work)