243.2.
That's my starting weight.
It's easily the most I've ever weighed in my life. It's about fifteen pounds more than my weight on my wedding day. It's a few pounds more than the height of my "pregnancy weight", when I went on a crash diet and lost 15 pounds (only to gain it back while celebrating the joy of fatherhood).
My wife is doing Weight Watchers for a month. She wants to lose 8 or 9 pounds to get back to pre-pregnancy Mrs. Undaground. I've decided to join her. I had two choices: go on a diet, or gain another 100 pounds to qualify for gastric bypass surgery. Even though gaining 100 pounds would be fun, it would probably have a negative effect on other aspects of my life (like my range as a softball shortstop and having to buy a new "fat guy" wardrobe.)
The Biggest Loser resumes on NBC in the fall. Last year I watched as a 400 pound guy lost weight week after week. When there were about 4 episodes left, he passed me, then continued to lose weight until he weighed 75 pounds less than me. I don't want to go through that viewing experience again.
So, every Monday morning, I will step on the scale and report my weight here, for accountability.
Stay tuned.
Goal weight? I don't really have one, but in a perfect world I'd hover around 200-205. I'd be able to buy pants at Old Navy again if I lost 20, so that's my immediate goal. Until then, I might have to visit Big and Tall man store.
They say it's a lifestyle change. I'm fine during the weekdays. It's the weekends and the evenings where I need to change. No more TGIFridays fried macaroni and cheese, unless I'm willing to use up an entire day's worth of "points" on them. As long as my wife is making whole wheat tortillas wrapped around rabbit food for dinner, I should lose some weight.
When I arrived at work this morning, you guessed it, there were donuts. I looked right at a little glazed bastard, took a deep breath, and told him, "go f*** yourself". That's willpower, baby. If I don't get called upstairs to human resources later, I'll consider it a small victory.
If you'd like to jump onboard the Undaground weight loss challenge, post your weight in the comments section and join us. Go ahead, I dare you (I'm talking to you, third-born).
2 comments:
Good for you! WW is an excellent program. Here is a site you may already know about, but it has tons of info to help you and there is even a restaurant section with point values to lots of restaurants that aren't in the ww books.
http://www.dwlz.com/
Good luck.
Bella
Thanks, Bella. I've looked at that website. That and "dietfacts.com" should help me whenever I go to a restaurant. I don't want to give that up, I just have to be a lot smarter when I order.
Normally, when somebody asks me "do you want fries with that?", I answer without thinking: "Is the Pope Catholic", or "Does a bear sh*t in the woods".
Now, I'm going to have to get the calculator out and really think about it.
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