Today is a very special day. For the first time since I was probably in my mid teens, I weigh less than 200 pounds. I've flirted with this line for months now but every time I got close there was always some holiday or indulgence or the last few pounds just became increasingly stubborn. Well, I finally crossed the finish line.


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'My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.'

-Orson Wells
'I think all diets are kind of weird. The word 'die' is in it.'

-Khloe Kardashian

Well, it took me a week but I finally got down past the Orlando low as far as weight goes. Whenever I come back from one of the trips down there I always ( Read more... )

'Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.'
-Confucious
'Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.'
-Dr Alexis CarrellI was just about to go to bed, attemping to get to sleep at a more reasonable hour especially considering all the things I have to do tomorrow before ( Read more... )

You sometimes think you want to disappear but all you really want is to be found.

-Kid CudiSo it looks like I hit another milestone in this whole weight loss endeavor. I stepped onto the scale today and I saw 259.0 staring back at me. I think I mentioned before that I don't think I'd ever been under 270 before, at least not in the past 25 years, so ( Read more... )

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

-Yogi BerraI got back from Orlando still holding at 274 pounds which is probably about as much as I could have hoped for. There were a couple of instances where things did tend to go off the rails. I recall one night where I was eating garlic bread sticks and practically drinking butter with ( Read more... )

'No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.'

-Carrie Fisher

It's funny really. I was just grousing to myself the other day that I'm still on such a burdensome calorie restriction and yet, the numbers on the scale didn't seem to be changing any. I had realxed things quite a bit while ( Read more... )

I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people.

-Rodney DangerfieldIt's been a month of ups and downs, but predominantly downs. The weight loss has slowed significantly though I'm still currently at the lowest point in this journey thus far. I just weighed myself this morning and the scale read 282.5. That basically means I'm ( Read more... )

'I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a brainless dad as they run roughshod over the rest of us. He gives us a need for love, and no way to get any. He gives us a desire to be liked, and personal ( Read more... )

Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

-Yotam Ottolenghi
So mom and grandma heated up the fried rice from last night and had it for lunch. I discovered at some point after talking with Shelley at the restaurant was actually ( Read more... )

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

-Jo Brand

I went to a gameday at Sarah and Brian's place today and mostly managed to not do any major caloric damage. I ended up eating half a slice of pizza and some bagel chips which I figure added up to around 250 calories for the day. It's never easy to ride ( Read more... )