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I’m 187 lbs. right now.  It’s not hugely overweight, but it’s heavier than I’ve been in two years, and it’s not a good amount to weigh if I want to be able to run up and down the field playing Ultimate, which I plan to do again this summer.

So I’m working to slim down to 169 or so.  That’s about 18 lbs. difference.  I’d like to lose that in about 2-3 months, which means I’ve got to lose about 1.5 lbs. a week.

I figure if I eat right, stop drinking, and exercise more than I have been (i.e. more than just two flights of stairs a day (one up, one down)) then I’ll have no problem. So if I turn down a second helping of your delicious dinner, or I drink a Diet Coke instead of a beer this Spring, that’s why.

Oh, and I don’t regret for a minute getting bigger.  So much delicious BBQ!

Overheard

“BBFF (Best Bacon Friends Forever)”

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“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”

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“Ever have something in your teeth that you cannot stop tonguing?”

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“ . . . the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.”

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the most helpful tip i can give you is to start drinking TONS more water. think 2 litres a day. that'll do wonders for you.

 

Posted by col  at  11:56 am on Mar. 17, 2008

 

 

 

I've definitely started drinking more healthily. I switched from beer to tonic (and gin).

 

Posted by Travis Smith  at  12:19 pm on Mar. 18, 2008

 

 

 

Ya, the getting up there is the easy part. Good-luck on the reduction. I need to work on it myself. I've been enjoying beer and a roomy that likes to cook.

 

Posted by Kathryn  at  5:54 pm on Apr. 5, 2008

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