| My Journey to the 2010 Free Press/Flagstar Marathon |
| Saturday, October 18, 2008. Weight: 231 lbs Well, I finally got fed up with being fat. I need to give myself a goal and to make myself accountable. Tomorrow, the 2008 Free Press/Flagstar Marathon is being run in Downtown Detroit and Downtown Windsor. I haven't decided, yet, if I'm going to try to run next year's 5K, 10K or 20K. Depends on how much weight I can loose and courage I can gain over the next year. I will give weekly updates on my progress. If you see me out there stuffing my face with cookies, I'd appreciate a friendly tsk, tsk...okay? Thanks. |
| Monday, October 20, 2008. I admit it...I've been bad. It's that whole "I'd better eat all this up now so I don't waste any food and I'll be good and start tomorrow" thing. Problem is...TOMORROW never gets here. So I guess I'd better change my Mantra to-"I am going to be good TODAY, so I can live long enough to see tomorrow." |
| ...and this is my bodaciousness now! |
| This was me in boot camp... |
| Sproule Haven |
| Wednesday, November 5, 2008. Weight: 230 lbs So...Senator Obama won the election. Who'da thunk. Maybe, I can pull this off. |
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| Wednesday, December 3, 2008. Weight: 230.2 lbs Beginning a major weight-loss effort around a batch of food holidays probably won't earn me an invite to join those Mensa folks. ...sigh... |
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| Thursday, January 8, 2009 Weight: 226.2 My panties felt uncomfortable this morning. I figured I’d gotten distracted and put them on backwards, so I took them off and put them back on. Still icky. I put on a different pair, which felt fine. I checked the sizes, the icky ones were size ten and the comfortable ones were size nine. …hmmmmm… I got on scale and … whoppee!!!! Drat. I’m actually gonna have to start spending money on smaller sized clothes soon… |
| Sunday, September 20, 2009. Weight: 231.8 lbs Right now, my entire life feels like I'm walking on wet ice, that's covered with three feet of thick, wet mud, that's covered with six inches of water, during a hurricane. With a pebble in each shoe. It's like, even though I can't see where I'm going, I gotta keep moving, because if I stop or slow down...that's all folks... The goal now is just to make it to, finish and survive the half-marathon. |
| Wednesday, November 25, 2009. Weight: 227.7 lbs Well, chickened out on the marathon (lost the registration money). Just sat through the Biggest Loser's two hour special, mostly to see the guy who won, then gain all the weight back. Interesting thing, though, they had a reunion here in Detroit and ran the same half-marathon that I chickened out on. ...I've learned not to believe in coincidences... |
| Tuesday, December 2, 2009. Weight: 225.8 lbs Don't know why I'm losing weight. I've been bingeing for the last month or so. Just had an energy crash and burn, and fell asleep at the beginning of my favorite show, Best of the Joy of Painting. Got jolted awake by a new thing...random pains like needle jabs. Shoulder, arm, leg. Jab, jab, JAB! Enough is enough. Resorted to the binge stopper...a whole banana and a half cup of uncooked oatmeal. We'll see what happens... |
| Friday, January 1, 2010. Weight: 223.2 lbs Still don't know why I'm losing weight, but I'm not gonna complain! I done good this first day of the new decade! I got up, did my exercises and ate my oatmeal (cooked)! Got to get "dieting" out of my head and start "not doing the things that have kept me fat," like: eating packages of cookies in one sitting or finishing entire cheesecakes in a coupla hours. It's good to have skills...BUT... |
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| Saturday, December 20, 2008. Weight: 229.6 lbs ...drat... ...sigh... |
| Wednesday, January 13, 2010. Weight: 221.6 lbs Had a "Holy Ghost Nudge" the other day, to look at what and how many nutrients there were in what I'd been eating, lately. It was enlightening. There were virtually none. Could explain why I'm famished all the time. Anywho, I extrapolated backwards and it seems that I've been severely malnourished for most of the last four decades. Why am I still alive???? |
Wednesday, February 10, 2010. Weight: 220.6 lbs This is dinner. Tofu and green beans with white onions and green, yellow and red peppers. Notice the shape of the tofu? I used this cute, little melon-baller to try to cut the tofu into cute, little spheres. I was hoping to trick myself into thinking the tofu was chicken meatballs or egg-dumplings or something other than cubed chunks of window caulking. Marinating helps. I've been using liquid smoke and red wine vinegar in addition to the garlic and onion powders. Still don't taste like chicken... |
| Monday, March 15, 2010. Weight: 218.4 lbs The other day, I was going through some of my old pictures. Not sure why. I came across this picture of my mother taken in 1963, before she got fat. She was a very beautiful woman, once, dontcha' think? *** Then, I ran across this picture of me in my early twenties. As I was looking at them both, it occurred to me that I kinda-sorta resembled her a little. I never noticed it before. I've pretty much always seen myself as too fat and too frumpy and too weird to be loved. But, maybe that's really only a fairly recent phenomena. These pictures seem to say that at least once in our lives, Mama and I both considered ourselves to be hot stuff! I wonder what happened? |
