The good news:
The diet is progressing nicely and my weight loss just passed the 22 lb mark. James T. Kirk gut here I come.
The bad news:
I can’t get Ray to stop checking out my newly slimmed down ass. The pervert.
CalorieKing.com, the site I’ve used to drop over sixteen pounds so far, tells me that I need to set an achievable weight loss target. I’m not exactly sure what a five foot ten male should weigh so I set an arbitrary goal of 170 lbs. Is this realistic? I can’t tell you. I would have put to walk without jiggling as my weight loss goal, but that wasn’t listed as an option.
Let’s face it, I’m pushing forty, and I feel that a man who has reached the abyss that is middle age is entitled to a bit of, um, padding. Indeed, I think I’ve earned the right to have a modest gut. Not a Nero Wolfe sized one, mind you, but something smaller that implies a combination of physical ability and a level of comfort with one’s physique.
I’d like to have a James T. Kirk gut.
Captain Kirk did have a bit of a belly. Nothing egregious, to be sure, but it was there in every episode of Star Trek. If I had to describe it, I’d call it a “let’s not push away from the table quite yet” gut. Having a mild case of pouch didn’t stop the Captain from saving the ship/planet/Federation each week. He also got to punch out aliens, stole a kiss from Lt. Uhura, earned the attention of Yeoman Rand, and even made out with the green skinned babe. AND…he got the occasional second helping.
I could live with that.
This morning’s weight loss was officially 5 lbs since I began the diet a couple of weeks ago. I’ve done a fairly good job of tracking and keeping on top of my calories, but I’ve been falling behind on my daily walking.
The lack of walking has less to do with laziness and more to do with the fact that I smashed the hell out of the big toe on my right foot just over a week back. I’m not going to lose the toenail, and my toe is finally changing back to a healthy pink, but it still aches if I’m on my feet for too long. Brisk walks are out of the question for another week.
Still, I’m off to a good start and this has done wonders for my self-esteem.
Back in 2004/2005 I got frustrated enough with my inability to lose weight that I joined Weight Watchers in order to do something about it.
It worked.
I weighed 259 lbs when I joined Weight Watchers, and I was down to 214 lbs when I finally stopped attending meetings. It wasn’t the diet that did me in, it was having to attend the weekly meetings with all of those goddamned neurotic women. I was left wanting to strangle myself by the end of each meeting.
Unfortunately, I stopped following the diet when I stopped attending meetings and the weight came back. I’m sitting at 255 lbs right now and hating it. Time to do something about it, I guess.
I looked into attending Weight Watchers online, but my finances are more than a bit strained since the layoff and move out to Kirriemuir. I simply can’t afford the virtual Weight Watchers program. I was looking for an inexpensive alternative when I discovered CalorieKing.com. It gives me the same easy tools to manage my food intake that Weight Watchers did, it provides a support network, there are no crowded rooms full of neurotic women, and it only costs $40/year. So I signed up.
I’ve made it through the first day and I somehow managed to come in way under the mark on calories (my daily target is 2000). I’ll try to come closer tomorrow, but I don’t want to pound back a bunch of food this late in the day in an effort to catch up.
I’m actually looking forward to Saturday morning’s weigh-in. Wish me luck.