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I agree with you about the bud - however, as a habitual smoker, it does lower my motivation and makes me quite sedate in the evenings. I'm cutting right down so it's just social as although I don't think it's doing me any harm..it's not doing me any favours either!
 
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I agree with you about the bud - however, as a habitual smoker, it does lower my motivation and makes me quite sedate in the evenings. I'm cutting right down so it's just social as although I don't think it's doing me any harm..it's not doing me any favours either!
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It's all about finding something that works for you. That's how I finally faced the music about alcohol: me, personally, it cannot be part of my life if I want to be healthy. It kills my motivation and I feel tired all the time. I'm lucky, I guess, that sativa strains make me *want* to exercise, and both strains help with the Tableau of Agony, all the aches and pains that the morbidly obese deal with when exercising. But that's just me.
 
At work. Conference room full of pizza, and I'm hungry at lunch. Salted cashews and cherry seltzer saved me from 900 calories of pizza.

Buddies have razed me a little about drinking tonight, but I can tell they respect my decision. The Muslim and the Alcoholic are thrilled I'm joining the ranks of the non-drinking. I have a sensible lunch and dinner planned, and I'll pick a healthy snacks for tonight, I'm thinking celery sticks and peanut butter, and pita chips and hummus. Plenty of seltzer, diet soda, etc. for me to drink.

Success = Planning. Planning = Knowing Yourself.

I'll check in here after the game. Let you know how it went.
 
It went... great! I didn't eat dinner, so when everyone arrived we ate little mini sandwiches and I drank diet Pepsi and seltzer all night. Had a cigar. Had 2 cigarettes. A few hits. Had a lovely time with the guys and didn't miss drinking at all really.

I'm maybe 300 calories over daily limit of 2300, if that. Usually at this point I have eaten 3000, 1500 of which are booze.

I like this. No hangover tomorrow. No regrets. No self-flagellation. No "Now that I've ruined it, I have to be 'good' again." This is... freeing. I haven't felt this good about the future and possibilities in a long time. Note to self: keep going. It only gets better.

DrBee, signing off at 390.0
 
Great work scaling the mountain of social expectations! And having fun on the way sounds like it can be sustainable as well.
 
Holy crap. I'm within my calorie budget and worked out 2/3 days this weekend. And it'a been the best weekend in months, as far as destressing.

Wow.

See you tomorrow, Monday...
 
Still here. Things are going... OK. Felt a little under the weather and overwhelmed this week. Took three days off work, if only because I have time to spend and I'm switching jobs this winter. It's been great eating right and getting workouts in.

I've noticed I tend to go hard for two days, then I want a rest day, going hard being pushing myself walking. Various parts of my body gain stamina, and challenge various other parts of my body. My basic cardiovascular stamina is in a duel with the muscle and joint strength of my legs. It cycles. I eat calorie controlled every day though, working in my individual daily cravings into the overall scheme. I can always have something I want, if I plan it in. This is important to not feeling "imprisoned", "on a diet", "Loss of my own self-control." Weight loss regimes were inflicted on me as a child as punishment and shame, so I battle that psychologically when I try to live a healthy lifestyle. It's a major internal battle.

And soon... I must return to the stresses of the world. Harder and stronger every day, but knowing I am still so fragile and weak.

Bought a tape measure. Never tracked my measurements before. Growing paranoid over loose skin for no reason, I'm just so tired of feeling like I'm ugly. How horrendous to do all this work to basically be a sexually inviting Shar Pei... could God be so cruel? I hope not.

Third day of mini-vacation. I mean to enjoy it, among you fine people.

DrBee, signing off at 388.2.
 
Sexually inviting shar-pei..What a glorious mental image as I'm drinking my morning coffee...

I wouldn't worry about the skin thing too much - I follow someone on FB who lost 120lbs (female) and she had to have surgery to get rid of hers, despite doing all the supposed tricks to reduce how bad it was. Sounds like you have a decent paying job, I would worry about it once it starts happening and then see how you look when it's done. There's always options for surgery. How much do you want to get down to?
 
There's tremendous variation in how much loose skin people end up having and there's no real way to know until you've been at goal weight for six months or so.
 
Exactly. First things first. I am looking to drop 200 (shhh! Don't jinx me!), but over like 2 years. I'll inevitably have some "extra" (helloooo, Shar Pei), but I don't want to go under the knife.

I had testicular cancer.

I don't want the knife.

This got real serious when my mom started suggesting in a threatening and underhanded way that "modern options are available".

I feel like I'm in Fat Fahrenheit 451.

No knives. Keep your knives to yourself.
 
Do you know "obese to beast" on YouTube? I can never remember what the guy is called but he lost a ton of weight and he has made several videos about his loose skin and why he doesn´t get surgery. Having seen enough doctors for one lifetime is a fine reason in my book.
 
Why worry about something that might never happen? Keep focused on what you DO want and keep feeding your body that mental picture. Your body will know what to do. It always does.
 
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