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

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MrVee said:
Thanks Chef. For the time being my thoughts are going to have to be focused elsewhere than on the fairer sex.

175.5 this morning after Easter. Didn't have the best of diet days yesterday at the parents house, but didn't do too bad. Maintenance cals, probably. Though it was a scheduled rest day and I played 18 holes of golf. Guessing it's water weight that will come back off quickly.'

Today is opening day of the baseball season. Something of a national holiday for me, and I'm sitting here getting housework done while I watch the White Sox game.
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You're a Sox fan? If so, you are as saddened as I am by our piss poor performance this afternoon.
 
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You're a Sox fan? If so, you are as saddened as I am by our piss poor performance this afternoon.
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Nah. The team's still rebuilding and just about everything that could go wrong today, did. I'm fairly pensive when it comes to my baseball and really only overly emotional when the team I'm pulling for is in the postseason. It's as much an intellectual pursuit for me as it is a sports fandom one. Intellectually the Sox are still a year or two away.
 
173.5 this morning with the weight dropping back down where it needs to be.

Just finished my sprint intervals. Have the fastest sprint on the treadmill up to 13.5 MPH now. It's a little scary running that fast on a treadmill as you don't want to lose your balance. It only goes up to 14 MPH. Would eventually like to find a track I can sprint full out on. Though I'd have to go early as it's about to get VERY hot.
 
Awesome on the weight! That's entirely too fast for a treadmill for me. I always feel like I'm fighting not to get tripped up on those damn things.

I think a track is a good idea hot or not.
 
I do too. It's finding a fairly convenient one. Sprinting in a park or on grass or whatever is a recipe for disaster.
 
174 this morning. Busy day today. Getting an oil change and have a meeting I have to go to.

Off to workout. Lifting heavy things today.
 
173 this morning. Good to see. I've got 22 weigh in since St. Patrick's day, and the loss slope for those days comes out to about 1.8 pounds a week lost. Since I'm aiming for 1 pound a week, that's great.

Going to see the Reverend Horton Heat tonight. It's always a really great show, simply because Jim Heath can _really_ play, which is unusual for a punkish act.

Cardio day today. Probably not sprints. I guess incline treadmill. We'll see.
 
173 again this morning. Concert was VERY loud. My back started to hurt from all the standing and in an unnatural position. Doesn't feel bad this morning, but it's lifting day and we'll see how it feels during my squats.
 
172 even this morning. And that's a new low. Also a cool 16.7% on the body fat monitor. And all of that on Saturday morning after a Friday night. Yeah I think it's fair to say that the beers might have been a stumbling block before.

Playing golf with my brother in law today. He's in town briefly but my sister is not, so we're gonna play golf, maybe have dinner afterward unless he's got a prior commitment.

Normally today is a cardio day and Sunday is a non workout day. With the golf, I think I'll switch the two up and do some cardio tomorrow and not do a workout today.
 
Wow MrVee! Look at you go! You are doing amazing! Hurray on the new low!
Living an isolated life can be hard. Though I work outside the house and ride my horse (which sometimes involves seeing and talking with the odd person) so I have SOME social interactions I still live a pretty isolated life. At times I like it, and at times I really hate it.
 
171 this morning. For some reason, that looks very nice. 16.8% on the BF% monitor. Now only 10 pounds away from my "Weight Loss Diary" becoming a "Weight Gain Diary."

Mystic,

My main problem with it is that most of my bad decisions the last few years have come directly from wanting to increase my social interactions and not necessarily knowing the best way to do so. It's led to too much drinking, too much wasting time on the wrong people, too much money wasted, etc. But just stopping altogether still leaves that need unaddressed and so it's a bit of a conundrum. I'm really not a bad guy, but it can mess with your head having to go through these sorts of problems that most other people you see just don't seem to have.

That said, I'm past the three week mark without a drink, and it certainly seems like it's all a lot easier to understand and adjust to without the alcohol. Alcohol is a depressant and I'm guessing it was leading to a lot more of the blues than maybe necessary.

Time for breakfast. It's a bacon and eggs Sunday I think.
 
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It is SO hard to meet new people and make new friends. Most all my friends are still from when I was in high school. And I really only have 2 or 3 close friends. I'd like to expand my friend circle but I don't know how!
10 pounds away from your goal?! That's crazy awesome!
 
Hi Mr. Vee!

Wow, I am joining rather late in this discussion, aren't I? Did you seriously start this diary nearly 3 years ago and lost that much weight in the process? That is frikking amazing!!
There are 179 sites to this diary now so I'm probably not gonna go through all of that but how are your last pounds going off? If I remember right it's roughly 2 pound = 1 kg so you're only 5kg away from your goal, right? That must be an amazing feeling…

How is that last mile treating you though? I've never had such a journey before me (worst weight was 70kg with my always wished for and never reached goal being 56kg) but I always hit a point around 59-60kg where my weight won't budge any further, no matter if I try or not. So how is it going for you? How are you getting those nastly little last pounds away? :)

Keep up the good fight!
 
Mia. Moon said:
Hi Mr. Vee!

Wow, I am joining rather late in this discussion, aren't I? Did you seriously start this diary nearly 3 years ago and lost that much weight in the process? That is frikking amazing!!

There are 179 sites to this diary now so I'm probably not gonna go through all of that but how are your last pounds going off? If I remember right it's roughly 2 pound = 1 kg so you're only 5kg away from your goal, right? That must be an amazing feeling…

How is that last mile treating you though? I've never had such a journey before me (worst weight was 70kg with my always wished for and never reached goal being 56kg) but I always hit a point around 59-60kg where my weight won't budge any further, no matter if I try or not. So how is it going for you? How are you getting those nastly little last pounds away? :)

Keep up the good fight!
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Hi Mia.

The last year or so has been fairly slow going. I had been stuck hovering between 185 and 175 for a long time, but before then it was a pretty steady drop all the way from 375 on down to about 190. According to my old weight Journal, my first weight below 190 was on April 11, 2014 at 189.5. A year ago today I was 188.5. So despite the much slower going, I still managed to lose more than 15 pounds in the last year or so. I don't expect you or anyone to read the whole thing obviously. The first post is kinda interesting as a snapshot of where my mind was at the time (I had just lost roughly the first 40 pounds, but was still tipping the scales at a huge 335).

Here's a comparison shot between 375 and 178 from back on November 1:

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/threads/55858-Looking-to-lose-an-extra-human-I-apparently-picked-up-along-the-way?p=898681#post898681

While I haven't lost a lot of weight since then, I have lost a little and it's clear my body fat numbers have improved quite a bit just comparing that to what I see today.

Anyhow went and watched the golf at my parents house today. My mom sent an e-mail eatlier this week that hinted at being a little sad she doesn't see me and my sister enough (I had just seen her three days earlier). So I figured I'd surprise her and come watch the golf with them. The downside is that it's hard to control my calorie intake there, so I'm over my calories for the day (bread pudding). I have some minor groceries to do. So I think I'll take a mile walk to the store. That will get me a couple of miles of walking in and burn a few calories, without exerting myself in a way that could hinder tomorrows workout. Did sprint intervals this morning, so I really shouldn't push the exercise too much just because of one day in the 3000 calorie range (target is between 2000 and 2100, maintenance around 2600).

So off I go.
 
I hope your walk to the store was lovely. Wouldn't really have wanted to walk anywhere where I am today. So windy! I went to put on my horse's blanket and I ended up wearing it instead!
 
173 this morning, which is fine. The expected weight for today using the weigh ins for the last 30 days is 171.8 and that's probably my best estimate at a "true" weight. Using just the last 5 days is 172. Anyhow, a pound a week loss from that number puts me at 161 on June 27. So that July 7 date in my sig is still well within reach.

Wednesday is among the worst days of the year: tax day. A day where I do a bunch of work and lose a bunch of money at the same time is not the sort of day you'll catch me in a good mood. That said, I usually feel okay once the envelope is in the mail and I'm done with it all.
 
Not nearly as much as I've seen some other people have. But yeah, which is why I'm still trying to lose more weight. The lower your body fat% the less of an issue this becomes.

Anecdotally from what I've seen, this is a much bigger issue with those who have lap band or gastric bypass and drop a whole bunch of weight in a great big hurry.
 
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