Tuesday, March 14, 2006
San Francisco.....168 pounds!!!!!!!! Even I am shocked looking at and typing those numbers. Losing 5 10 or 15 pounds you see a little change but nothing really to boast about like I feel doing. Losing almost 70 pounds has seriously transformed my looks, my health and what is even more remarkable it has transformed my thinking. In a way it has been way too easy and yet it has also been a supreme struggle to stay focused considering there was such a lag time on seeing or feeling results. Yet when I did start to feel and enjoy the fruitation of my endeavors it has been like I went in overload reaping of benefits. My modus operandi was achieved through sheer determination. They say you should never critize a person unless you have walked a mile in their shoes. Well I walked many many miles in a fat man shoes so I have seen both sides of the coin which makes me qualified to remark on or estoll the benifits weight loss or admonish anyone on the detriment of being overweight and complacent about your health. I am still wearing the clothes I came to this city with back in December and beleive me they do not fit well at all. I went to the Levi store downtown a few weeks ago to try on a pair of jeans but it was still to early to be spending money on something that I was certain to grow down out of. My son is sure to note the bad sentence structure but I could not think of a way to say I was going to get slimmer. Usually we buy clothes for kids with the thought that they will grow into them soon enough so they can be a little large. Lastly a few people have remarked that I have not posted here much lately. I was shocked for I thought I might of had an audience of one maybe two but four is beyond comprehension. The main reason I have not posted more is there are just aren't enough hours in the day to do everything and with my new found health I want to do so much that blog writing is getting a low priority for now. I really don't write here for anyone but myself anyway, mostly to keep track of what I was doing at a point in time to jog my memory. And lastly (again) I want to thank my son Jon and my wife Tacey for supporting me finacially in this transformation. Without them all of this would have been impossibe. My health insurance will not pay for this portion of my return to health. Makes no sense since if I am healthy then I will be filing less claims. They will also not pay for pneumonia or flu shots to prevent the advent of those diseases yet they forked out over $20000 when I got peumonia in September. Sometimes the feet are headed to the beach while the brain is still watching the Sopranos.
