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

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Basketball against teenagers. Now going out to a bar to try and meet women. Feels like I'm in grade school all over again.
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Man, my parents never let me go to the bar to meet women in grade school. It was keggers or go home.

Good on ya for the b'ball. How'd you fare?
 
I require a complete report. If it gets too baudy just PM it. ;)

My wife and I signed up on a socializing site and we are meeting up with a group this evening. I can't very well encourage/berate you to go for it with the ladies whilst being a complete hermit. I'm a bit nervous about it and I'm not even looking for a date.

However it turned out it was a success that you went.
 
Well I tried to. Apparently I needed to read the fine print. There was a registration process for the event that I didn't know I needed to go through. And the bar was completely closed except for the event, so I couldn't even observe. Oh well. There's another one next month, and some sort of speed dating thing in between. I think either next week or the week after. I might do it for laughs.

Anyhow, the good news is 227.5 this morning which is another new low. One of my fingers and my thumb are jammed up a little bit from basketball-mania yesterday, but nothing too serious.

I called my doctor's office a few days ago to get the go ahead for the DEXA body composition scan. Heard back yesterday. My doc having found out I've lost 145 pounds in 14 months has decided it might be a good idea to come in for a physical. He also seems confused as to what I want the DEXA scan for, so I'll explain that when I go for the physical on Sep. 12.

The dating site stuff is very tricky. When someone pretty and somewhat compatible (IE not too young and not too philosophically different from me) pops up (there's no one completely compatible as I'm clinically insane), I get somewhat concerned that I might be aiming too high and should be more realistic. But then I find myself not nearly as interested otherwise. I guess I'm just shallow, I suppose.
 
Awesome weigh-in! Cruddy about the registration mess. I too follow the philosophy of "When all else fails, read the instructions." way too often.

I'm sure you'll find somebody. There has to be plenty of insane people around. That sun and heat just cooks the brain.

I don't know how I would be on choosing someone from a website. I have been with the same person since 1994 so not a lot of e-dating opportunities in my life. I know single guys here at work that have used dating sites and sometimes thge dates were not like their profiles at all and sometimes it went as planned. I think I would weigh compatibility way heavier than looks. A person's attractiveness changes greatly for me based on how well I like them once I get to know them, but that's my flavor of insane and millage may vary.
 
I'm about. Just a touch busy with a work project. And yesterday was busy with revelry to keep a friend cheered up.

Not much to report on the weight loss front, other than I have not gained back the 148 pounds I've lost. :D

Though I guess today is picture day (first o' the month), so I guess I'll take some and post in a bit.
 
I've gone over this board fully and wow. Just wow, I can't tell you how amazing that is. You are a beast. Gives me some motivation to dig a little deeper. Thank you. :waving:
 
Woo Hoo, look at you! You look like a mountaineer, about to climb Peak Sexy. A smile! Wonderful!!!
 
Have had some backsliding on the calories at times in the last few weeks, usually with good cause but it's got to stop anyway. The good news is that the exercise regimen has continued like clockwork so the adjustment will be minor.

This is going to sound a little TMI but an odd thing has started to happen lately. Used to be I could sit for hours with little discomfort, but apparently getting rid of a whole bunch of my natural padding has caused my butt to start hurting if I sit for too long. Good news all and all, but it just goes to show that every silver lining has a cloud.
 
The only thing that makes me know that before pic is really you is the eyes,
You really look like a different person, even your nose looks slimmer....
You have done an awesome job on the weight loss.
 
Haha you look so much happier in the newer pic compared to the older one!!

MrVee I think everyone is a little (or a lot) crazy. It's someone with the same kind of crazy you want to find! Or someone who can tolerate your crazy and you can tolerate theirs. Having a few common interests doesn't hurt either haha. I was pretty late to the dating game (had my first boyfriend just before I turned 18) and ended up marrying him, but we were friends before hand and always just clicked because we have the same strange sense of humour. I think there's a lot that he and I laugh at that just leaves other people baffled!

I'm sure there's someone out there for you! And even though you couldn't get in to that event, good on you for being brave enough to try!
 
The key to being a successful loon is to know it and embrace it. That's what the cat told me this morning, and he's never wrong. Except for what he told me about moles, they actually are quite unpalatable.

On the topic of ladies, have you tried eHarmony? I met my wife through it, and she still seems to like me, 8 years later (5-year anniversary coming up). Helpful hint if you do it: be in a good mood when you're doing your psych profile. I did it once in a pissy mood, and I met some real whackos (like the cynic named Happy, or the good friend of my 6th grade bully). When I retook it, I was quick to find a few really good matches.
 
Thanks for the kind words. Maybe I'll get a t-shirt with the above logo. No tights or cape though. Never capes.

229 this morning and tonight is a baseball game so I'm going to try and save up as many calories as possible for the beers that shall come later. Going to go hard at the health club today.

It's now September so the worst is over weather wise, though the high will still reach 103 today. Thinking about taking a day trip up to the Mogollon Rim (about an hour and a half each way) before summer ends just to see how it is. Thursday might be a good day as it's supposed to be hot. You can lose as much as 20 degrees off the thermometer from Phoenix up there. It's a little dangerous as the trails tend to be pretty isolated, particularly on a weekday, but I'm going to take all the precautions I can, including having a fail-safe where if my parents don't hear from me by 8pm, they are to send out the search party.

Need to get a picture or two taken tonight at the game for the dating website as all I have up right now is one selfie. One of the difficulties I have is that there are no recent pictures of me in the wild, and obviously less recent pictures tell a completely different story than current ones would.
 
Capes get caught in things.

I had to look up the Mogollon Rim, and that really looks awesome! Makes me wish there were some better hikes around me - I have to drive an hour to get to anything worth calling a mountain, and all the local hikes are along streams, which is pretty, but boy do the mosquitoes love them some stream hikers!

And don't forget to call your parents when you get back to the car!
 
227 (and a hangover) this morning.

They have a new front desk clerk at the health club. When I signed in yesterday, he gave a weird look. Then he asked me if my name was my name. I couldn't figure out why he was acting so strange, and then I realized he has a picture of me that comes up when I sign in, and the picture is from July 2012. He simply thought it was a different person signing in than was in his photo.

So I told him I've lost close to 150 pounds. He said congrats. Then I said "who knew this health club stuff actually works?"

UPDATE: Didn't realize this until I entered it into the model, but that 227 is a new low by half a pound. Yay for me!
 
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This made me think of Mac trying to use Dennis' gym membership on Always Sunny. Why are you jamming me up bro? It might get less funny if you are pulled over. You may want to consider getting a new drivers license./skinny guy problems
 
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