Lifting weights again, high-tech

Glad to say yesterday's problem is gone. Another good product to thank. 

I started lifting weights last night. No real program to what I'm doing yet. Just know I have no interest in bulking up, just toning up a bit. I will contact one of the trainers to get some kind of plan put together for this. I have a key card (flash drive) to these high tech machines. In theory I should be able to insert the key card into whatever station I happen to be on and it will track what I'm doing all the reps, etc. that are in my program. If the system is working at it's best and if the technologies sync properly I will be able to upload all this to my Health Vault. I hope it works - it's a very futuristic high-tech approach to managing your health that's here and available today. I intend to press every button in the system before I'm done. 

I'm going to be continuing to do the treadmill every morning, 7 days a week and now weights in the evening every other day. My wife asked me how much longer I thought I'd be doing this. I told her expect I'll be doing it for the rest of my life. 

I weighed 269.2 today.

Made my weekly goal

Not much drama making this goal. I had actually reached it a few days early. Still have not quite reached the down 100 pound mark. I will in the next few days. In the category of too much information I had a lot of blood on both arms this morning after my run. I thought I might have been having a nose bleed - nope. It was my nipples - ugh. I've been running all my life and have occasionally had some soreness, but never bleeding. Fortunately one of my close colleagues is not only a great editorial director for our book and newsletters - he's also my daughters cross country coach, and a pretty extreme runner himself. I will be picking up a product called Body Glide, (his recommendation) and hopefully that will be that. 

So, now I really have no dignity left at all - between chaffing nipples and my half naked progress photos… I'm a big fan of the TV show the Office, there was a pretty funny episode in which they are having a run to cure rabies, Andy - has the chaffing nipples problem, not quite so funny to me now. 

I weighed 269.4 pounds today.

Work-out Zombie

I had another complete stranger approach me at the work out center, he asked how long (duration) I'm running on the treadmill. Then he commented on how much weight I've lost. I really appreciate this kind of recognition. More then appreciating it I'm always impressed that people even notice. For my part I’ve become a real zombie at that place. I walk in, check in at the front desk, go do the run, hot tub, shower and weigh in, dress and go. I don't even hardly realize I'm there anymore let alone notice what others are doing, who's there or that they're getting results.

I think it's better this way, I'm going to start lifting weights (hopefully yet this week). That'll happen after work. I'm going to start hitting that place twice a day now (for at least three days to start).  

Tomorrow’s my official weigh in - I need to be at 269.5 or less.

I weighed 269.2 today. 

New clothes / 260's

Well actually they are old clothes. About 11-16 years old. I have not fit into them since 1997-92. I actually found several very good pairs of pants that should work well for work. I got out a bunch of old clothes that have been in storage for some time. I hope I can make them last for the next few months. I have to pick up my daughter from the airport today and I brought a pair of old jeans and this shirt I use to wear. I'll change before I go - just for the fun of it. The big surprise for me last night was that I had dropped from 4-5 X shirts down to 2 X. What a shock. 

I also moved into the 260's this morning, no surprise there.

I weighed 268.9 today.  

Sick of my home page

I'm getting sick of my home page on down200.com. Seeing the picture of myself so over weight again and again is really getting old. Before and after pictures are very important though. Decided I would at least add a profile shot that was a little more current - maybe I'll update that one every week too. I'm sick of my design website too danbrevick.com - think I'll redesign that completely and relaunch - save that for next week. 

One thing I will NOT DO is hold out a pair of my old pants in front of me to show how much thinner I have become, nor will I jump up in the air and click my heals together. I had a hard time doing that back when I was an athlete. 

I weighed 271.6 today. 

Got to get some new clothes

Had another good run - still have not gone through my old clothes. The 54 inch waist paints on my now 44 inch waist are starting to look pretty poorly. I need to drill a new hole in the 48 inch belt also. I'm still refusing to buy new clothes. I have to look reasonable professional though. I think they cut me a little slack since I run a creative department. Still…

One of my friends has offered to take me shopping when I'm down 200 (he knows business professional dress), I’m afraid I won't have any money left by the time making the film brakes me. Getting very impatient with the pace of weight loss lately. Don't know why it's been at 5 pounds a week and still is. 

Today I weighed 272.3.

Progress photos

On my website down200.com I post a progress photo every week. One of my friends suggested that I had a lot of guts posting images that showed myself so overweight (without a shirt on). I told him I had already lost about 35 pounds when I started shooting - it was far worse. I wish I had thought to start shooting from day 1. For me, posting these images means I will have greater motivation, I really want/need to have better and better pictures as the weeks go by. So the motivation is to redeem myself with an improvement every week or fail with the whole world looking on. Pretty strong motivation actually, so far redemption is winning. 

I weighed 273.4 today.