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Well, if I haven’t…i hate cardio! But I also understand that exercise is a necessary evil when trying to lose weight. So last night, April and I broke out the old exercise DVD’s (it is friggin’ freezing outside the last couple of days so any outdoor walking, etc, was totally out of the question.) We have this Leslie Sansone DVD that is a walking video where you can either do one mile or two miles. Since it has been so long that I literally had to blow the dust of the DVD jacket, we decided to stick to one mile.

OMG! Through a series of walks, knee lifts, kicks, and side steps Leslie leads you through what is the equivalent of a one mile walk in just 15 short minutes. If any of you have not ever had the pleasure of doing a Leslie Sansone “Walk Away the Pounds” video, let me just give you a heads up…Leslie is EXTREMELY freaking perky. And I don’t know about ya’ll, but when I am flopping my seriously overweight butt around my living room, huffing and puffing, kicking like a Vegas showgirl and sweating like Chris Farley in a really good SNL skit, the last thing I want is perky. I mean, for pete’s sake, it is to much to ask you to break a sweat, grimace, something! So while I do find Leslie a wee bit grating, the lady seems to know her stuff.

Anyway, so last night I cardioed…and I felt it today. But in all actuality, it kind of feels good, in a very sore way, that is. Everytime I sat in or got out of my desk chair, walked the building, or really did any activity that caused movement, I felt it, but it was a constant reminder that I had done something positive for my health as well as my weight. Yay me! Alrighty then, I guess I will sign off now…I think I hear Leslie’s somewhat annoying laugh coming from the DVD player. Time to torture my body into melting fat!

My wife and I did weight watchers together a couple of years ago, and although I have not been strictly following their program (which is probably why I’ve gained about 90 pounds in the last three years), one technique that has definitely followed me from that program is the weekly weigh-in. I used to be an obesessive weigher…i would weigh everytime I went into the bathroom, and of course, we all know that your weight can flucuate pretty wildly not only day-to-day but hour-to-hour. So, while on WW, I got rid of my home scale and trained myself to get used to the weekly weigh-in. Since starting our “lifestyle change” on January 5th, I bought a new home scale but have been able to restrain myself from weighing constantly.

Which is a really really long way of saying that Sunday is my Weigh Day. And WHOO HOO! I lost 2.2 pounds this week! It really gets you going when you see that scale going down. My current goal is to get that first number down, at least in the 2’s…i don’t care if it’s 299.8….I just am tired of being 3 somthing.

So, I’m getting the eating thing kind of under control (more work is needed, natch) but my problem right now is exercise. When I am at my “fighting” weight I LOVE to exercise, it is such a mood booster….but once you get out of the habit and you get seriously out of shape, well, it’s a bitch to get back going! I’m planning on buying a weight bench, start building back that lean muscle that gives your metabolism such a boost….but for the life of me, I despise cardio!

Does anyone else ever feel like being overweight almost forces you into a sort of eating disorder? I feel like I spend so much of my day obsessing over my weight, every bite I put in my mouth, and how many calories I burn, etc, that I barely have room left for anything else. I know that it will tone down some, and this sort of single-mindedness is a natural byproduct of trying to me more aware, but please, if anyone else finds this a problem, leave a comment and let me know that I am not seriously unhinged.

Thanks to everyone for your motivation and great examples of success (whether big or small).

Ok, so, first let me just say, the advertisements on this site disturb me.  I swear to God, one of the ones at the bottom of my screen a moment ago was advertising that you could lose 9 pounds in 5 days on the apple peel diet.  Wtf!?  Do these people not understand that it is a dangerous game they’re playing by advertising this stuff on a site designed for overweight/obese people?  Do they not realize that a fad diet or “get thin quick” scheme is like crack cocaine to a fat person?  Or do they just employee insanely cruel yet wickedly genuis marketing people?  Either way, for the next five days, it’s apple peels only for me…

Anyway, my wife (hey fluffybuns, lol!) joined this site yesterday and it is like she has rediscovered myspace all over again…the obsession is that serious.  So, I decided what they hey I would give it a try.  We have both put on some weight (for her, a few pounds….for me a sickening amount…basically the average weight of a sixth grader) since getting married and having kids, so we decided we were going to do this diet…ahem, lifestyle change…thing together.  Two are better than one, and all that.

 So here I am…..I am prepared to be stunned, amazed, and motivated by all of you.  Hopefully, through the anonymity of the internet we can become buddies, encouraging each other to lose the weight we desire to for whatever reason, and live happily ever after.  I plan to be brutally honest with my own successes and failures (see the aforementioned anonymity), but I truly hope that their are more happy blogs than otherwise.  I look forward to seeing….um…reading you all in the future.  Good luck over the next few days!!!