i need a new scale

This my last opportunity to weigh myself on the industrial scale at work. I am going to need to get a scale for the house. Now that I am under the 300 lbs. limit I shouldn't have any problem using that instead. So my last official weigh in at this site shows that I am now at 290! Not bad considering I have not been working very hard at it this week.

I will be glad to be off this midnight shift but I will miss the steady work. I am hopeful that something will come up soon. I find that changing my dietary habits has been hard. It is so much easier to just grab a bag of chips than to chop up a salad. Truth be told though, I would much prefer the salad.

I have really only been working on pushups this past week but I am up to 15, just 5 more until I reach my first goal of 20 pushups in a row.

This video was my inspiration for beginning this from the start.


The work this man went through to get the results he did is amazing. It seems he just dug in and did the work without worrying about the results. I use small goals to keep myself interested and motivated. I am not looking at the 200 lbs. mark right now. Maybe that will happen, maybe it wont. I do know that if I reach for that then I will eventually get to a healthy place long before that.

There is much I need to learn about eating easy healthy meals. I still need to get motivated about going to the gym. Our membership is up for renewal and without a job I may have to reconsider my ability to keep it. It has been so good to all of my family though, especially my wife. She has lost so much weight and feels so good about herself. I feel I need to do whatever I can to make sure she can keep going.

It has actually been a few weeks since I have been able to swim laps. I have been going to the RAC with the family and that is distracting for me. I tend to concentrate more on watchign the kids, or spending time with my wife while I am there. I just feel like I don't have the 45 minutes or so alone to swim laps when I am not by myself. It's like the trip to the RAC serves a different purpose when it is the whole family. I feel weird working out in front of my family for some reason too. I should think about that and try to figure why that is. I have no doubt they would be nothing but supportive and loving about it. It just feels weird to me.