Looking to lose an extra human I apparently picked up along the way

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Yeah, I'm virtually certain that the 178.5 was a very low water weight number, but by the same token I'm virtually certain I've had very low water weight numbers before and nothing that low.

180 again this morning. A note about men's fashion in the US: companies that sell jeans and other denim pants sell waist sizes in a particular way. From 34 on up they tend to sell them in increments of 2. IE: size 34, size 36, size 38, etc. However below size 34, they often have size 33, size 32, size 31, etc. I have been at size 34 for roughly 5 months now, but after going to Target last night for something else, I decided to try on a size 33 and they fit rather easily. I didn't buy them because I didn't like the style, but the reality is that I remember wearing a size 32 for all of six months in my adult life when I was roughly 22 years old. Other than those six months I've never worn anything below a 34...

...until now. So in any event, if at some point I'm putting on a size 31, that would sort of be the ultimate "new low."

No training today, but my shoulders are still sore from Saturday's farmer's carries and kettlebell swings (those things scare me). Not sure I'll be able to play basketball today so it may be some other cardio thing.
 
I know I wore my Dad's hand me down size 36s when I was 13 so 32 would have been prior to that. I also hit the 6 foot mark around that same time so I wasn't oval. Whenever it was, size 32s were part of my childhood. I've never really considered that I would wear anything below a 36.

You need to find a pair of 33s that suit you. That's awesome!
 
Ummm... your thread was getting closer and closer to the bottom of the first page. Just thought I'd let you know I fixed that. lol! I hope all is well. :)
 
Interesting factoid about the sizes; I´m wondering if there´s an actual reason for that or whether they just assume smaller people are more fastidious in how they look?
 
I assume the size thing has to do with costs/demand. It doesn't seem like much, but that extra bit of material does cost something and then you have to sell enough of them.

Anyway 181.5 this morning on challenge weigh in day. Yesterday's workout with the trainer was a cardio focus at high intensity and it was really something to behold. Being pushed like that must be good for me: my cholesterol test numbers are in, 164 total with an 80! in HDL. When it comes to CHOL/HDL, "." Mine is 2.1. That HDL number is apparently stupid high (which is good).

More training today at 11:00. Think I'll do my first mountain hike of the season tomorrow morning. Scheduled high of 91, which means low to mid 80s in the mid morning. Easily doable.
 
I guarantee that being pushed that hard made the scale jump up. I think you can look forward to a big drop soon. That hike sounds perfect. It supposed to storm today and tomorrow here. Maybe I can get outdoors Sunday. I'll be outside all next week at a minimum. Awesome cholesterol! I am way overdo for my blood tests. Maybe at 275? I would like to see some improvements and I'm worried they aren't there yet.
 
Vee if it's as simple as pulling up a chart would you mind telling me how long did it take you to lose 100 pounds (375-275)? What about 300-200? Thanks!

If it's ANY trouble don't do it.
 
Anything until under 200 is real easy.

Started off on July 1, 2012 at 375. Went under 275 for the first time on March 16, 2013 (274). That's 258 days between those two.

Was 299.75 on January 2, 2013. Hit 199.5 on January 28, 2014, 391 days later. I have pics from January 2, 2013 and February 1, 2014, I'll post after my workout.

UPDATE: here's the pics from New Year's 2013 and New Year's 2014 which is roughly the difference between 300 and 200 pounds.

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You rock Vee. I'm still amazed every time I see your change. To think that those pics leave out about 95 pounds of loss and are still astounding. I hope you have a good weigh-in today. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort for me!
 
Hey Vee - just came across your diary. Holy hell. Your recent before/after picture is incredible. I hope to one day feel how you are feeling on your journey.
 
Thanks rhunter! Welcome to my den of depravity.

Anyhow, 180.5 for the last three days. I suspect it might be lower tomorrow, but I wish it was for a good reason. I'm amazed at how much generally healthier I've been the last 9 months or so: very few illnesses, rarely any stomach aches or weird chest pains. Unfortunately today was a "rarely" and stomach issues have plagued me since about mid afternoon. Hence why I might weigh less tomorrow AM.

Fortunately my training session was early so I got it in before things went south. Legs day.

In the process of once and for all digitizing my entire CD collection into a lossless (.FLAC) format so I can then take my CDs and put them away somewhere. For the younger ones of you, CDs were these shiny things you bought which played music. For the older ones of you, CDs are these shiny things that replaced "records" and "cassette tapes" as the way you used to listen to music. For those of you who have been sleeping since 1976, can I borrow your 8-track tapes?

Anyhow, I'm ripping all of these onto my hard drive in a lossless codec, and then I can make MP3s or whatever out of them whenever I want to play on my phone or my portable music player or whatever. There's a Suicidal Tendencies CD in there that may be about as old as CDs themselves. Still plays, but astonishing how much heavier it is than newer ones (which is pretty much all of them).
 
Pooing your way to a new low is no fun, but since you are already doing the pooing i hope you get the low.

FLAC is the way to go. Just don't convert to FLAC above 16-bit 44.1Khz or it's just a larger file size without gain in quality as that is the source quality you get from the CD.

Serious nerd out:

I find how CDs and digital music are made interesting. The 44.1Khz means that 44,100 times a second the height of the sound wave is measured; that height is in turn made into a binary value; and the ones and zeros are represented as a spiral of a laser reflective and non-reflective pits. Digital music is the same binary representation of sound wave height, but the difference between FLAC and MP3 to my understanding is that MP3 uses a compression algorithm that "guesses" at some of those sample heights based on adjacent height measures whereas FLAC uses all of the measurements and results in a larger yet lossless audio. The 16 bit refers to the number of possible values that the height is assigned. To the best of my limited understanding it's sort of a precision designator as long decimal strings would be cumbersome to represent in binary.

Claude Shannon came up with digital communication at Bell labs after WWII. How is name is less known than say Bell or Edison is beyond me.
 
Thomas Edison was a very smart man and a fine inventor, but he was one hell of a publicist.

Anyway yesterday was the 4th straight day at 180.5, today was 181. However my handheld gave me a new low bodyfat number. Bodyfat is the key right now as that's what's going to do the most to fix my remaining body issues. I wish the handhelds were more accurate though.

My CD collection is all .FLACified and on my machine. I then converted a bunch of my favorites to .MP3 and put them on my phone and portable player. I can now shift my music focus back to expanding my collection rather than organizing what I already have. Trying to increase and improve my jazz collection at this point.

Date night tonight, we'll see how it goes. Tomorrow is challenge weigh in day.
 
Good luck with the date and weigh-in. Accurate enough for trends is how I'd put any method of home BF estimation.
 
180 this morning on weigh in day. It's a good number.

Date flaked on me. 10 minutes before it was supposed to start, she texted that she couldn't make it. Sounds like she can't make any future dates either. Pretty sure there's someone out there running around telling all these women I have ebola. The only explanation at this point.

Just have to work harder all around, I guess.
 
That stinks. Not someone you want to waste time on if they flake that soon to the date anyway. It will happen man. Just not with that turkey.


That's right I called her the T word.
 
Turkeys are at least usefull for eating. Dropping out ten minutes before a first date? Nowhere near as good as turkey.
 
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