Dear Diary: Huh, I thought it was going to be the diabetes...

A real quick post here.

I actually have to get my ass moving and off to the mechanic to get my wife's passenger side door fixed. The window no longer works and our solution of lots of duct tape keeping the damn thing closed just seems, well, lame.

Meanwhile, last week I had my physical and it turns out my cholesterol is 390, which I guess is pretty high. I'm like, oh, nothing about diabetes in the blood test?
My dad and several members of his side of the family have diabetes, and occasionally I wait for that hereditary shoe to drop.
So far, nothing indicated there... regarding that, at least.
But, my cholesterol levels, well, that's another story.

So, the Doctor's freaking out, more or less, and I'm now eating lots of Cheerios, which I'm told is some sort of cholsterol scrubber. Curiously, it occurs to me now, this nutritional fact was pointed out to me by my wife and her mother, but not my nurse practioner who did my physical.
The NP did go over dietary change stuff, though.

Also, I've been off Weight Watchers online for a couple months because I really wasn't doing anything with it, so I figured, save the money.
But with my wife now weighing significantly less than me (she's in the lower 150s), and also this cholesterol crap, I'm trying to psyche myself up to lose some more weight again. Besides, I never hit my target weight of 140 and my 30-year high school reunion is in three months (shut up!). The closest I got to my target weight was, like, 156 lbs.
Last Thursday, before we went out of town, I weighed myself and I was 170.5, merely 1.5 lbs below where I was when I originally joined WW last year (which was around this time of the year).
I weighed myself Monday (my former weigh-in day) and I was at 170.
So, half-assedly, I lost .5 lbs this week.

More to come.

Besides, my cereal's getting soggy.

Limping along here… (78/33)

Oh, dear.
Things are just not progressing as I had hoped.
Oh, well.

Well, I didn’t weigh myself on Monday, but I did finally get around to heaving my big-ass butt-ass up on the scale yesterday.
165.5 lbs.

So, more or less, I lost half a pound this week.
Whoo-hooo!
YEEEEE HAAA!
Er, I mean... that's better than nothing, right?

Although, considering how much grazing I’ve been doing the last few days on the contents of the vending machine at work, I should be glad I don’t weigh more than what I did so many months ago when I started this meandering journey…


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Happy Thanksgiving! or My Weight Loss Update! (77/40)

Yeah, I thought the timing of this post was funny, I mean, it being the national day of eating excess and everything.

Well, the last time I focused on my diet, etc. in a post, was some time ago.
At that time, I thought I'd try to get myself back on track since I was wavering at best in my diligence and focus to healthy eating, perhaps even get into the habit of logging in what I eat every day, something I gave up very early on during my weight loss adventure.

After a single day of trying to keep track, I sort of loss steam again. It turns out I eat a number of things that seem to have no calorie information: specifically, these so-called "monster subs" from the 7-11 nearby where I work.
They're cold cut subs and have no condiments on them.
They also don't explain (beyond ingredient content), how many calories there are, what the fat content is, fiber what-sis, etc.
So, being totally undisciplined, that easily deflated my efforts at food intake documentation.
Which is a lame excuse, but I'm not denying that. because, what I can do to compensate is come up with a guesstimate of what the points are for such an item. Then, since I eat those subs regularly enough, I can just enter it as a favorite food on my site at Weightwatchers online. So, really, I'm just being lazy.
Sigh.

So, in the meantime, my desire to lose weight and to be disciplined about making wise choices regarding what I eat has been non-existent.

Which explains my increased weight readings lately.

Two weeks ago, I gained after after three weeks of losing weight.
I jumped from 161.0 to 164.5 lbs! A difference of 3.5 lbs-- in the WRONG direction!
Cripes.
Which probably explains why I didn't even check my weight the following week.
This week, I added another 1.5 lbs: 166.
So, I'm only 6, 6.5 lbs away from getting back to where I started.
Well, I'm not really throwing in the towel yet, but boy, I really need to get on track.

Um... after today.

Meanwhile, today being Thanksgiving, I hope everybody has a good holiday. Hopefully a holiday spent with the family and relatives will be limited in its stress, and I also hope you have a safe journey if traveling is in your plans.
Also, I hope (jeez, I'm just a hopeful suck, ain't I?) that you do have a chance to sit down, sit back, relax and reflect, even for a couple minutes, and take stock of what blessings you do have.
And if some of those blessings happen to be living people in your life, take a minute to let them know. You'll both be glad you did.

And as we enter the holiday shopping season, which I think actually began on the Fourth of July this year: "Vaya con Dios!"

Peace, man.


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Night of the Fat Ass (70/54)

Well, this is gonna be really quick.
Monday was my weigh-in and I clocked in at 164.5 lbs., meaning I gained 3.5 lbs. last week!
I don't understand! I've been eating everything in sight! Oh, and hardly exercising, too!
It's so unfair!

Well, apparently, I've decided to be a blob.

That's not actually true.
I haven't made a decision either way, so I'm just not changing old habits.
Also, last week was 1) me dealing with a cold and 2) Halloween (AKA hey, look! There's candy EVERYWHERE!).
So, circumstances were slightly against me, so I'm not throwing in the towel, yet.
Plus, with the cold weather setting in, I can't count on sweating it off at work anymore.

So, we'll see from now until the end of the year, how serious I am about wanting to get down to 140.
Also, the Doc is within 10 lbs. or so of my weight, having lost 92.5 lbs. since January. She's actually very close to the weight she was when she first joined Weight Watchers a couple years ago and then gave up when she hit a plateau and couldn't reach her target weight. But, she's definitely on track to lose 100 by the end of the year.

Perhaps shame will kick me in the ass..?

Okay, gotta go eat another burrito.
I mean, go take a nap before work!

(dammit!)


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Monday Weigh-In OR This is NOT the Diary of Grant Williams (64/64)

Man, all I wanna do is eat.
Um, be right back…

So, way back on March 19, when I started doing Weight Watchers Online. I had my first weigh-in. I was at the juicy weight of 172.0 lbs.
After an eye-opening first week of seeing how many points I consume non-chalantly, I started applying myself a bit more towards eating better, at least comparatively speaking.
But after some initial success, the last couple months, at best, I’ve had a serious lack of motivation.
All I seem to do is feed at the vending machines at work, and get something to eat from anywhere on the way home.
Most alarmingly (well, diet-wise), in the last couple weeks, I’ve returned to the Wendy’s drive-thru… and more than once.

Anyway, Mondays are my weigh-in days.
The last couple weeks I’ve actually lost weight each Monday trip to the scales, but part of that is because prior to I went on a real eating binge and ballooned up to 164.5 lbs. I had been down as low as 157.0 lbs on August 6, which was also the weigh-in before we started our two week vacation and I became a whore for anything seafood while on the New England and Maritime Province Road Trip. You know, the native living experience, man! So, understandably, my weight went up some after that date.
I was last under 160 lbs. on September 24, being just under at 159.5 lbs.
Since then, I’ve been on a steady climb up until I hit 163.5 a couple weeks ago.
So, I’ve been fitfully trying to get back on program.

Since I started back in March, for only a few weeks did I actually pay attention to points and keeping track of what I’ve been eating.
For the rest of the time, I’ve just been logging in my weigh-in totals every Monday.

So, now that I seem to be aimless in my weight-loss discipline, plus, since I no longer have a film shoot that I was trying to be skinny for, my new motivation is accumulating blog posts.
Yes, that damn impossible Project 365!
No way in hell am I gonna fulfill that goal of 365 posts by the end of 2007, but I’m curious to see how far I DO go.
Therefore, you’ll see updates on my Monday weigh-ins, and quite possibly, some info on what I’ve been eating as I try to document what crap I’ve been putting into my chubby carcass.
And, as a reminder, my ultimate goal is to get down to 140.0 lbs.

Anyways, today I weighed-in at 161.0 lbs.
I lost 1.0 lb since last week’s weigh-in.
My reward (uh, for merely weighing in, not so much for celebrating the loss of a pound): I feed!


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