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LGBTQIA friends
Hi. Trying to rebuild the friends list. Today was day 2027 or just over 5 1/2 years of logging every day. At first I logged in as a fat dude. I lost a bunch of weight - over 70 pounds - and then finally got myself into a gym for the first time. I stayed there for years until a serious injury I did to myself trying to hard…
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Day 2000 of logging in to MFP
Tomorrow will be day 2K for me logging in here. I have looked forward to that for so long. But, after today it seems so small and insignificant. Instead of acknowledging that, I ask you all to look in your hearts and find your own voices on humanity, dignity, love and equality. And, when you find your voice speak. Speak…
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HRM Replacement
Is anyone aware of an HRM Chest Strap that's designed to sync to a smart phone instead of a watch? I've been using a Polar HRM for years; typical chest strap/watch combination. But apparently I've recently developed an allergy to latex. And there's latex in the watchband. If I wear it I have an immediate, nasty looking…
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Sex and violence... on a diet
So, I had an NSV, having come along over two years of dieting and exercising quite rigorously. So rigorously, in fact, that nearly every day I say, "Hullo. That was quite rigorous." So, I was out walking about and I ran into a fellow I know from quite a bit back. He said, "Hullo. You look quite slender." "Thank you," I…
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NSV's?? Danger, Will Robinson! Danger!
So, I've come a long, long way from my old wardrobe. I've had to buy clothes and turn around and donate them before we hardly knew each other. Needless to say, my current wardrobe is lacking. I'm working on it. My job is casual - jeans and polo shirt kind of stuff. So, I've focused on that. Well, this Friday is one of…
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Spike days... A most famous myth.
Look. The fact that we needed MFP in the first place debunks the notion of rest day / cheat day / spike day. We're here cause we lost control. We're here cause we gave up control to food. We're here cause we're junkies. The notion of rest day / cheat day / spike day is just a weak excuse to fall off the wagon. It's like an…
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Holidays....
I worked pretty hard through this holiday. Burned a couple thousand calories working out and left them on the table. That's a personal choice. Avoided the sweets. Ate lean. Stuck to the program. Surprisingly, I got negative feedback for it. "Hey, cheat days are important." "It's the holidays." "You can restart in Jan."…
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How hard is it...?
With the holidays here I'm seeing this huge bump in posts about how hard it is. You know the sort. It's so hard to work out when the days are so short. It's so hard to stay on track with all the holiday treats. It's so hard to feel motivated at this time of year. It's so hard when the scale doesn't move............. A…
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The finish line: Opertion 12 for 12
I reached my original goal some time ago and realized there was a lot of refinement to do. During my "big" years I'd lost a lot of the muscle I'd had when I was younger. So that meant, even if I was back at that comfortable old weight more of it represented fat. So how far to go? What arbitrary number to pick? I decided to…
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Keep going!
So, I just used the Reports function pretty hard for the first time. Never really looked at my stats. Here I've been thinking, I owe it all to MFP. And, to be honest, I do. I might not have kept going with it and my FL. But, turns out, of the 103 pounds I've lost, I only did 27 of them with MFP. I started this diet at the…
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How far is far enough?
Okay, so... I started this thing ages ago and I was huge. HUGE. Starved day after day, happy to accept it as new life style. After all, I'm not a young guy anymore. I now weigh less then I did when i was 20 and fit. But I know I've lost a bunch of muscle since then. And I can still grab a handful of gut. So, clearly…
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Kindness...
Kindness changes lives. Lightens lives. Saves lives. Mean is passing, ignorant and only calls out the weaker people. Mean people are weak. Mean people validate themselves by stepping on the hearts of people who are willing to be bold enough to be vulnerable. Mean people suck. Who are you gonna be?
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My love, it's time to move on...
We've been so long together, you and me. All those years ago, we were totally different. You were curvy and sweet. You had a longish name. But you shortened it to a syllable - Coke. Oh lord how we indulged. It shameful. But we were shameless. In the mid 70s I met your younger sister, Tab. Honestly, at first she was like…
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My Post
Every so often I feel a need to post. When I need to post, I need to post post-haste. So, I'm at my post, writing a post. This is my post that reads like this.
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To my American friends....
Tomorrow is a loaded and provocative anniversary. I ask that you contemplate the better angels of our history. And, the better angels in all of us. Those angels that guided us to being the last, best place on earth. Two centuries ago, George Washington, our founder, ordered that all British POWs be treated kindly and with…
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The Greatest Week That Ever Was
It has been an awesome week. First, I break off a many months long plateau and drop nearly four pounds over five days. Then, there was a fantastic NSV at the DMV. For the first time in years, I didn’t lie about my weight to renew my license. The truth actually sounded way better than the fiction. In fact, the truth was…
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Hey stupid! You remember not wanting to pick a girl for your
So, Seattle is a pretty bleak place for sports. In baseball, we won a championship like back the 19-teens. The Sonics brought home the gold for basketball in the 70s. But never after that. Nothing else until the baseball come back season of 1995 when we got the division pennant. But they choked and died in the second week…
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Day Five on the site
So I flipped over from a competing site where I've been since last May. I'm sorry to lose that weight loss history - the first 72 pounds - but this site is just superior in every way. I've got about another 27 to go and it's getting tougher all the time. The good thing about being heavy was the weight loss was so dramatic…
