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

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I didn't understand the situation. I guess send a crap ton of emails and try not to take it personally when the response rate is low (easy right?). Also consider your approach. Are you just saying hi and inviting a response or is it like "wanna go out?". Obviously I have no experience in edating and I'm just trying to troubleshoot in generalities.

The facts of the matter are that you are intelligent and good-looking from what I can gather over the internet which is what they have to judge you by. So either you can try varying your approach (if that's even possible), your profile, or the return rate for these things stink for guys in general. Have you tried any more of the group meetups?
 
Hi MrVee,
May I offer you my help? If you like, message me a sample email that you are sending out to potential dates. I may be able to troubleshoot for you.
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I have been thinking of suggesting the same, but thought you might think that it's stepping over a boundary. An honest woman's perspective might help. If I did have a look I would pm you any suggestions. Cheers, Cate.
 
Thanks guys. I'll take you guys up on your offer once I get un-busied, though I think you can understand that something like that I'd rather do over PM than out in the open.

193.5 today not a new low, but matches the new low from a couple of weeks ago. March is always a tough month for me because it's always so busy, I always have tons of friends from across the globe coming to town, and that always means a lot of beer consumption.

Tonight I'm going to a charity event and this is sort of the coda to everyone's visit as they'll all be heading home by early next week. I will miss them all, but my liver and waistline probably won't. :)

I will have to buckle down and re-dedicate myself if I'm going to achieve some of my fitness goals though. I'm extremely happy with the progress I've made, but I'm far from satisfied. I have the motivation to build muscle and lose fat, the time and desire to work out to achieve that, a proven diet method that I obviously can stick to and the physical health to put all of those things together. If I want this (and I do) I should do it now while it's there to be done.
 
193 this morning. That's a new low.

Heading out for brunch this morning with my mom. You guys may remember that when I broke 300 pounds, I was going to go out for a celebratory Monte Cristo sandwich (the king of all sandwiches!) However the place we wound up going was terrible. Not only was the food bad, but it made me sick too.

So we planned to try it again once I broke 200. Well the last morning weigh-in over 200 was February 15, and I broke 200 officially for the first time on January 28. So I'm past due for my monte cristo, and I get to have it this morning.
 
193 is awesome!

I would think that sandwich will make you feel awful. Although I ate an entire slab of ribs after no meat for quite a while and it wasn't bad until I ran 5 hours later. I hope it's the best one ever made and you enjoy it immensly.
 
194.5 today.

The Monte Cristo was good, but not great as we had to settle for one at a lesser place because the place we wanted to go to had an hour and a half wait for a table. It was more of a sandwich made with French Toast than a "true" Monte Cristo.

Anyhow, today I get back on track and stricter about my calorie intake. It should be a little easier as it hasn't been a problem of eating too much or the wrong things, it's been a problem of having too many beers with friends from out of town. Even "lite" beers have way more calories than I should be drinking.
 
I've been MIA for a bit. It's good to see you're still doing well on the weight front. So happy you're officially out of the 200s. I really admire your dedication. At my peak I don't think I had as much dedication as you. It's really admirable. :)
 
I agree with drinking calories, I try not to at all as I like eating way too much to sacrifice meals for drinks. Especially with alcohol, I always seem to get extra fluctuations that just aren't worth it to me!
 
193 again this morning. Hopefully I'm set up for a loss this week and get closer to the 190 mark.

Have/had three pairs of workout shorts, 'XXL, XL and XL'. Went to Target yesterday and tried on two different sizes, and it's pretty clear I'm now a 'M'. So I kinda waited a little long to update my workout shorts.

Going to baseball today with my dad, there's only about a week left of Spring Training but I might still get one more game in. The Cubs and White Sox play on Thursday, so maybe I'll go to that.
 
No wonder that your weight hasn't been on track if you are already in size medium shorts. There isn't much to lose.

Cubs/Sox would be cool.
 
192.5 this morning and a new low.

The pounds have slowed coming off, but they're still coming off. For the last thirty days the best fit for pounds lost per week is 0.8 pounds. Now that's not a lot, but it's not nothing. At that rate, I'm 10 weeks from 184.5.
 
193 this morning.

Going to do some core training today by myself. not sure what exercises to do though.
 
193 again this morning.

Skipped core training to play basketball. Will do core today.

My basketball is definitely coming along now. The ankle is 100%, my quickness is better than I ever thought it was going to get, even knowing I'll never get back to my quickness level at 24 or 25. And my jump shot is in pretty good shape at least until I get fatigued.

The fatigue really is my game killer right now. When fresh I'm not far off my peak abilities as the better jump shot and ball handling make up for most of the quickness loss. But my game starts to deteriorate a little more than when I was young once fatigue starts setting in. It's more the loss of focus that comes with fatigue than anything else.

In any event I'm playing like I belong out there which is nice.
 
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