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How I Looked Gustav In the Eye and WON

Hey everyone! 
As you all know I started over on my weight loss endeavors a few days ago… 4 to be exact. During those 4 days we have been on high alert for Hurricane Gustav.  My brother and his family and their dog are all here as well and we are ALL getting on one anther’s last. damn. [...]

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

We’re Off to See the Wizard…

The Wonderful Wizard of POBO!!!
Hi everyone!  Long time no… nothing… really. I am back at the lake and back on program.
The dreaded weigh in took place this morning as early as I could face it.  I now weigh 423.2 lbs.  Yeah… I gained 25 lbs over the summer.  Yanno what though?  I’ll take it. Honestly, [...]

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Eating More to Lose Weight?

Well, not really. What you want to do is to eat more often. This is the first thing that my trainer told me when we first started out (the second thing was to drink between 70-100 ounces of water every day). See, what happens is that when we go into a starvation cycle, that is, [...]

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

My own Triathalon

Everyone can do a Triathalon!

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Skinny Little White Boy

SLWB – that’s me.  Try as I might, gaining weight and then keeping it on is a long-term up, down, up, down, up, down… similar to the other bloggers here but possibly in reverse.
About 18 months ago, I weighed myself on scales at a friend’s place.  I was 54 kilograms.  I knew for me that [...]

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

On Being Fit

I have what could be described as a complicated relationship with my body. As a child, I became an expert at dissociating from my body to handle the years of abuse suffered at the hands of my stepfather. As a young adult, I put myself in extremely dangerous situations in which I was forced to [...]

Monday, August 4th, 2008