Don’t be fat.
I wasn’t too fat today. Although I did eat two bowls of cereal after ten o’clock. I even put sugar on one of them.
Here’s the deal. I’ve pretty much been a fat ass my whole life. Never really too bad obese but fat nonetheless. I’m still about twenty or so pounds over what I should be. But I think they, who ever they are, get that number a little low for some people. Some people really are big boned.
Most are just fat though.
Anyway, in the fall of 2006 I woke up one morning, looked at my disgusting fat ass in the mirror and said to myself. Self, I said, you are way too vain to be this freaking fat.
And myself said back to me, yeah, take your fat ass to the gym.
So I did. I started going to the gym. That was step one. Step two was eating better. So I stopped eating fast food, stopped drinking soda pop of any kind and started to eat fruits and veggies and yogurt and cottage cheese and good things like that.
I never cut down on meat though. I tried to eat more of it actually. Lean meat is good for you. I suppose too much red meat is bad for ya, but I eat chicken mostly and fish when I can and it’s not deep fried. But you can never go wrong with a big ass steak.
I’m getting off subject; the point is I went from 240 pounds in November of 2006 to 189 in the summer of 2007. It is now the end of February 2008. And I’d like to say I kept it all off.
And I’d be a liar. I weighed in tonight at 205. What a tremendous fat ass I am.
I got lazy. Stopped going to the gym, found excuses for not going. Ate more fast food. Had a few too many pops and beers. I basically fell back into the old habits that made me so fat in the first place.
But I’m not giving up. No, no. I never did reach my goal weight which is 175. I’ve only got thirty pounds to go for that. I at one point lost 50. So this should be a piece of cake. I just can’t get lazy. I have to get back into the good, healthy habits.
I have to stick to my lifestyle change. ‘Cause that’s what you gotta do, ya know? You have to change your lifestyle from a fat one, to a healthy one.
And you have to remember that each day is a new day to live your healthy lifestyle. Because sometimes that double cheeseburger is good. Some days you just need to veg out in front of the tube and skip the gym.
You have to take baby steps.
And today I start my baby steps towards 175 pounds. I will be a mean, lean, love making machine at 175 pounds.
When I’m on the exercise bike I repeat, “For the ladies, for the ladies” in my head when it starts to get tough. Ya see, I’m pretty vain. And I’m getting old.
It’s time for me to grow up and buy a house and get some people to live in it with me. And I don’t like any of the people I know. So I’m gonna have to start cloning myself. So I gotta get some good stock, if you know what I mean.
Someone tall, with some basketball experience somewhere in the family.
But that’s a blog for another day.
Today I had two packages of Quaker instant oatmeal. Honey nut flavor. It’s yummy. We were out of milk so I had to use water. They taste so much better with milk though. I mean they are good with water too, but just real good with milk. And I don’t drink anything but whole milk. Unless we don’t have any then I’ll drink the skim milk that fat Zack likes.
For lunch I had two slices of bread, four of five very thin slices of some crappy lunch meat I got at Kroger. It’s the real cheap crap, like not even Kroger brand. The bread the lunch meat were together on a sandwich, obviously. With mustard.
Then I was fat.
We’d been busting our asses all day. And by we, I mean Mike, Zack and myself. Otherwise known as Reed Hardwood Flooring. We worked today removing about 700 feet of tile. Talk about a pain in the ass…
But anyway, Mike treated us to Red Robin. Which is sweet, ‘cause Red Robin kicks total ass. I had the Bonsai Burger which comes with a slice of pineapple and teriyaki sauce. Mmm…pineapple on my burger…mmm…
I even got it in the wrap format, but I did eat a bunch of the fries. They got the best fries ever.
But I did go to the Y. Good thing too, I would have missed a guy getting hauled out in handcuffs. I mean, how often do you get to see a guy get hauled off in handcuffs from the YMCA?
Played ball for about forty minutes or so. Maybe an hour. Then rode on the damned exercise bike for thirty. I was tired.
My endurance has suffered greatly the last few months from my being so fat.
I stopped at the grocery on the way home to get breakfast supplies. The nice lady whose floor we are tearing out is buying us pizza for lunch tomorrow. Pizza is good, but it’s kinda fat. But I’ll eat free pizza. That’s just how it is.
I picked up some yogurt for my breakfast. But I might have oatmeal again since I snacked on the yogurt tonight. Had two bowls of yogurt with cheerio’s and a banana. Which ain’t too bad I don’t reckon, other than the sugar I put on the second bowl?
Man, that’s good. I wish I’d a had some strawberries.
Not a bad day.
