Cross country today

I believe my daughter has a meet today (a home meet), I'll have to find out and see if I can break away early or not. Not much time to blog today, I still have obligations re: the art show (I need to provide some web images) I will complete this blog tonight.

I weighed 250 today. 

Love songs

I’m going to have to expand my song list to include all the love songs I’ve been so taken with lately. I felt a little funny at first including them on my exercise page (I have a top ten list of the best exercise/running tunes). They are, for the most part, fairly slow paced, but even so I find myself listening to them as I run (more then the up-tempo tunes), it’s only fair since they are inspiring me at the moment and they are on my iPod for that very reason. The list really needs to go beyond ten anyway because I’ll be lucky to get the rights to use any of them. A bigger pool improves my odds + it’s real, I’m listening to them/being inspired by them.

I’ll be going for rights to use them for non-theatrical release, use for film festivals only. I might be able to afford that, i.e. they might be free. If the movie is good enough for anything beyond that then some producer/producers would have to secure the real rights. 

The songs at this point include Picture in a Frame, by Tom Waits, one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. If I Should Fall Behind, Bruce Springsteen, this song really defines “true love”. Come What May, Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman (from one of my favorite movies Moulin Rouge). The opening line says; never knew I could feel like this - like I’ve never seen the sky before” - love it! 

I’m in the planning stages for my next documentary about “true love”. I think this is partially why I’m so into these songs right now. If anyone out there still believes in true love feel free to contact me at danielbrevick@earthlink.net, there are many angles to explore. I hope to start shooting for this next spring. 

I weighed 249.8 today.

Best laid plans

It seems the ultimate in poor judgment to be talking about plans (even small expectations) in the context of a blog. Yesterday I was quite confident about accomplishing what were relatively small goals, I got about halfway through at best. If you are blogging daily (I'm pretty close to that) everything you say is subject to cross-reference from something stated earlier. How many times have I failed? How often have I contradicted myself? Worse still how often have I repeated myself? I’ve barely got the time to write these let alone worry about cross-referencing my posts in one-way or another. 

Having said that and with the experience of failing to accomplish something rather easy from yesterdays blog and given I'm no writer, I find myself encouraging others who are trying to lose weight to considering blogging about. I really believe it helps. Let your friends, relatives, co-workers know that you’re blogging. It does add pressure - especially when you are at a family reunion or company get-together, I'm far more conscience of what I’m eating in those settings because what I’m doing is so exposed. The net result; I make better choices, I don't have setbacks and the weight continues to drop. 

I weighed 249.2 today.

Moving forward

Today I’m going to hopefully get caught up on most of the images for the down200.com site. I’ll shoot progress photos and a new portrait photo tomorrow and hopefully have the entire site up to date in the morning. I've got a knock off list created on tadalist.com, I need to add 4 more things to that and then - I have to start knocking off the items on the list. The film and what I need to do for it HAVE to start to play a larger role the hours I have during the day. 

I did both of my workouts in quick succession this morning (separated by weight lifting) and instead of doing a second run on the treadmill I did a half hour on the Elliptical. It felt pretty good, very different then the treadmill. 

I weighed 249.6 today. 

Getting cold here

It’s starting to get chilly here in the mornings. I’m so not a fan of the cold weather here in MN. My old leather winter jacket fits again. For the last few years I've been wearing nothing more then two light jackets all winter long. Not bad though I think the layering effect actually keeps you warmer anyway. 

I'm really hoping I get back on the 5 lbs. a week track. In theory I want to be down to 244.5 by next Wednesday

Today I weighed 248.3

Feeling good again

The best reward of dieting is losing weight. It’s such a great motivator. It’s been a few weeks since I’ve made any of the weekly goals and I’ve finally moved down one. Seeing a drop again is all the more encouragement to keep up with the new running routine, stick with the calorie limits and just to remain focused. 

The federal duck stamp art competition is coming up in a few weeks. I’m really looking forward to that. It’s being held in St. Paul, Minnesota this year. I’ve got a piece in the competition that’s better then I’ve had in years. Many of the people I know within that realm will be surprised by my my weight loss I'm sure. A couple of them saw me just last March before the weight started dropping. 

I weighed 247.8 today. 

  

Quick Blog!

I’ll be back tonight. I normally do these blogs in the morning before work - but this morning I couldn’t get access to the site. More this evening. I did make it into the 240's last night 249.4. But this morning (as expected) it was up a bit.

It's a little late for me but I'm going to add a little more to this blog. I droped to 248 after the second run. By tomorrow I really should be in the 240's by the early run. The new 800 calorie limit seems to be working. With both runs I'm burning 1050+ calories, taking in only 800 I should see some rapid dropping again.

I will be very thrilled if this gets the rapid results again!


I weighed 250 today.