Back to SXSW

Back to SXSW

it's final and approved - i'll be heading to austin texas in march... the sxsw design conference / film festival. it'll be 4 years in a row for me and jay (one of my employees) - mitch will join us also and he's a great one to have a long. he also use to work at mayo clinic and also a filmmaker. he's an oncologist and took a great new gig in wisconsin a few years ago.

austin texas is awesome - i totally love it... it's the best place in the world to watch a film. the films which include many great docs each year and are always inspiring and you learn so much. i have taken on a new role at work and the conference also includes interactive design so i will take advantage of more of those course selections.

so with the good news (this was not a guarantee this year) i have jumped back on my strict calorie restricted diet. i want to get off all the weight i have gained since africa. this is a great incentive and having great incentives is what really works for me. so the plan is not to eat until mid march and my weight should be back to where it was. i hope i can do it.

new years people

today was good - i was running late with work, tempted to skip the run - went anyway. it's that time of year again when the place is so crowded. can barely find an open locker or an open treadmill!. sadly in a few weeks it'll be back to normal. people's news years resolutions only last a few weeks.

i weighed 255.6 pounds today.

new years people

today was good - i was running late with work, tempted to skip the run - went anyway. it's that time of year again when the place is so crowded. can barely find an open locker or an open treadmill!. sadly in a few weeks it'll be back to normal. people's news years resolutions only last a few weeks.

i weighed 255.6 pounds today.

blooging late tonight

my weight dropped a little again - so busy with work not much progress on the site - no free time - got in the run...

i weighed 257 today.

Back to work today

The vacation is over and hopefully the temptation too overeat with it. I posted a couple of videos from africa on facebook let me know it you want to be friends there . The run was good today :)

I weighed 259 today.

New Years Resolution

I ran yesterday, so glad the knee was not a factor. It wasn't to painful all day (yesterday) - more stiff and that went away as I started to run. I had a good run - close to 7 miles. Yesterday I worked on a few of the writing tasks for the Chazon site and I also started building a blog for "The Road to Punda Milia" the movie about international volunteering.

Blogging about Africa, both the experience of it and the progress of the film are both long over-due. The blog about my weight loss has to continue and I think the two will go together - they actually do go together. I can't finish the down 200 film without first finishing The Road to Punda Milia, as it's making is a part of the down 200 film. Interestingly the obligations of the Africa project (it's much larger then just a film) have had a profoundly negative effect on my weight. I have to get a handle on this. I have gained over 40 lbs since leaving for Africa. That's in like just five months.

Before leaving for Africa i weighed 215.2, the scales at the Abrams center were not working yesterday so i couldn't weigh in - but my last weigh in had me at 256.8. OK this is the first time I have admitted how much weight I have gained. One reason why I was hesitating to blog was that I ended every blog with how much I weighed and I had been blogging daily. I'm embarrassed for gaining back as much as I have, but I'd rather face that then continue to gain. It's been very positive to be open about my progress (and now my failings) as it creates accountability. So from now on two things - I will start blogging everyday again (some will be quite short) and I will close with my weight (assuming the scale is working :)