In which we assess the damage...

Not damage by a hurricane or anything, and any of you readers (anyone out there? Sis? Anyone?) who have gone thru Gustav, Ike, or any of the other recent storms, my thoughts are with you, but this blog is about my fat, and it's been pretty damaging.

My last post on 9/3, my weigh-in was 282.2 lbs, down from a recent peak of 284.2 lbs, but way up from my most recent low of 274.6 lbs. On that Sunday (9/7), I dropped down to 279.0, setting up a 1.5 lb goal for 9/14 of 277.5 lbs. The past week was somewhat problematic, though. DAPGF started a new teaching semester, but the associated crap that goes along with it (prepping lesson plans and online shells) as well as a pile of the other usual crap (getting food and stuff for the doggie, etc.), I didn't really make it to the gym much this past week. It showed with a peak on my 9/10 weigh-in of 283.0 lbs. Still, I fought back and got down to 280.6 lbs on Saturday morning and then 280.0 lbs this morning. A net gain of 1.0 lbs for the week, but given that I was pushing 4 lbs at one point, I'm ok with that.

I'm not going to get where I want to go with a repeat of last week, so I've got to step up and head in the right direction. The week isn't going to start off on the right foot, because instead of going to the gym after work, I've got a meeting to go to in the early evening. I'm just going to have to work hard at eating right. My goal for next week is going to be 278.5 lbs. Wish me luck, peeps.

Waay overdue post

OK, I'm a schmuck. Almost 2 months since I posted, and I've got nothing but bad news to show for it. When last I posted, my weigh-in on July 6 was 274.6 lbs, and I was showing steady progress downward. And then the wheels fell off. Or rather I started looking for new wheels. As you know, I started a new assignment at work. One which doesn't allow me to have a nice train ride and 20 minute power walk 3 days per week. Nope. I get to drive 70 miles from Casa de Hoff to the client's office 3 days per week. Gas has come down, but when I started, regular unleaded was hovering around $4.60/gal here in San Diego. My Jeep at best gets 18 mpg on the freeway, and it's a lease. I certainly didn't want to completely destroy the mileage cap on my lease, and driving something more fuel efficient made sense, so I started looking for a beater car to drive the wheels off of. Minor problem, I had a limited budget to work with, and most used cars in the $3000 price range tend to be, well there's no nice way to put it, pieces of shit. So I spent every spare moment for the next 3 weeks scouring Craigslist and Autotrader.com, looking for that elusive diamond in the rough. Well, they were rough. And Casa de Hoff is in a very nice coastal area of San Diego. Cars in that price range tended to be owned by people who lived in lower income areas of the county, all of which tended to be a 40 to 50 mile round trip each time. So I wasn't exercising much, I was eating poorly, and I was stressing myself out. Yeah, great recipe for disaster. And the end result has been a steady increase in my corpulence. As of this morning (Wednesday) I weighed in at 282.2 lbs, down from a peak of 284.2 lbs on Tuesday. Yep, that's a gain of nearly 10 pounds over the past month! Me no likey!

Ultimately, I did purchase a car...a salvage title 1997 BMW 328i. It's got some issues and needs some heavy TLC, but it is loaded, it scoots, and it gets 25 to 30 mpg on the freeway. For what I need it for, it works just fine for me. And now that I've got that taken care of (I put 3000 miles on it in the first month I owned it!), I'm trying to get back into a groove. I'm working hard at eating better, and because of the hours I need to be at the client's office, sometimes I have time after work to stop at a 24 Hour Fitness on the way home. It's not perfect, but I'm trying to reverse the momentum and get back to losing again. Wish me luck, peeps.