Weight Loss Challenge

New Update

2005-03-16T13:32:00.000-05:00

Well, as this 3 month run comes to an end.. Im starting to not want to come off the program. I have lost so much weight, and im starting to feel so much better. So I think I going to try something a little diffrent, Im going to start introducing carbs back into my diet by only eating carbs 1 meal a day, and im not going to go crazy.... Maybe this way I will keep loosing weight and be able to enjoy some of the foods I love. Also, I have started to work out at my compays workout room. I know I have to take it slow starting but...I know its helping. Here are my stats as of today. I hope to have some new photos soon.

Body Part	Size (11/8/04)	(3/16/05)	Change
Neck:	21.25	18.25	-3.0
Chest:	63.5	55.0	-8.5
Bicept:	21.5	18.25	-3.25
Forearm:	12.0	13.5	1.5
Waist:	81.0	64.25	-16.75
Thigh	35.5	33.5	-2.0
Cafe:	21.0	21.0	0.0
Total Inches:	255.75	223.75	32.0
Weight	520 (1/18/05)	487	-33

All measurements are done in pounds and inches.

490 and still going down!

2005-03-02T13:15:00.000-05:00

I have great news.... I have hit the 490 mark and its still going down! This week has been kinda tough, I have started to get sick of the double cheese burgers from Mc Donalds but, then I look at the weight I have lost and Its worth it.

Also this week my mother made me a deal, When I get down to 350Lbs she will get me a Leather Bommer Jacket. I know bribes are the best method of encouragement, but It never hurts:) I am doing this for me, that is the only way I have been able to keep going.

Well here are my current stats:

Body Part	Size (11/8/04)	Size (3/2/05)	Change
Neck:	21.25	18.25	-3.0
Chest:	63.5	57.5	-6.0
Bicept:	21.5	18.25	-3.25
Forearm:	12.0	14.0	2.0
Waist:	81.0	67.50	-13.5
Thigh	35.5	35.0	-.5
Cafe:	21.0	21.75	.75
Total Inches:	255.75	232.25	-23.5
Weight	520 (1/18/05)	490	-30

All measurements are done in pounds and inches.

The New Begging

2005-02-21T22:17:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone,

I'm so sorry that I have not been keeping my blog upto date. Let me fill you in on what's been going on. On January 18th. I started the new round, my weight had gone all the way back up to 520Lbs. I had totally fallen off the train. After dusting my self off I got back on.
By January 25th I had lost a full of 12 Lbs, bring me down to 508Lbs. I was hitting with all that I could. I went from 3 double cheese burgers (Without the Buns) to 2.

On February 1st I had lost another 4Lbs bring me down to 506Lbs. I was a little disappointed, but still 16Lbs in 2 weeks... I can't complain at all.

On Feb 8th is were I started to run into problems. I was starting to have problems with my back. I think that I had lost so much weight so fast that my body couldn't keep up. I was starting to use the mussels in my back more and more, and I wasn't letting my stomach carry the weight while I was sitting any more. Because it has been so long, I'm sure that my back mussels have atrophied over time. So over the new week I started working on some streching exercises and I started to be come more and more flexible.

On Feb 15th I did it. I broke the 500 barrier, I made it down to 496Lbs! This is less that what I weight at the end of my last attempt before thanksgiving. It has cleared a mile stone I had be fighting for so long.

finally, We're cought up. I'm down to 493Lbs as of Monday morning, I will do an update tomorrow with my current measurements, photos, and official weight. Wish me luck!

Failure.......

2004-12-14T04:49:00.000-05:00

Well..... It looks like part 2 is a complete and utter failure..... It all started on Tuesday, 12/7/04 I was late coming home from work because a project I wanted to rap up. I ended up leaving work around 2:30am Tuesday morning about 3 hours late... When I got into my car, it just didn't feel right, but I shrugged it off as me being tired and started to drive home. So, I'm driving home in one of the heaviest fog conditions I can remmber since leaving Seattle, when I hear a nocking sound from the front part of my car. As I'm truing off the radio, and heater it starts getting louder and faster, so I start to slow down because I was easily doing around 80 mph and that is not a good time to have something go wrong. As I start to slow down my car starts to virbrate and bounce, so I pull it over into the shoulder on the fast lane.... As it turns out I have shredded my drivers side tire, and it is smoking pile of rubber. So there I sat in the middle of the fog, waiting for someone to help me out because I can not get to my spare tire do to my rear door being seized. After getting a cop to call my parents (Yea... I'm stuck living at home) and getting them to give me a ride home. They asked me out for breakfast and I broke down, and ate French Toast..... It was so good... And I have not been able to get back on the diet since..... So my current plans are to try and hold my weight between hear and the end of the year and go all out starting the first of the year....

Starting Part 2

2004-12-06T13:49:00.000-05:00

Well, Thanksgiving is over, and I have found my self eating way to much again.... Turkey, Stuffing, Corn casserole, Bread, Pizza, Grinders, Pizza, and Pie!!!!! It was my plan to start part 2 on the Monday after Thanksgiving, but do to my employer putting me in classes for a new product we will be supporting I decided to put it off a week. Switching my sleep schedule my normal 6 am to 1pm to having to be at work by 9am, .... Ouch.... It sucked.

So I spent the week eating out and doing all kinds of bad things to my body. I know that this is a bad thing, but on the bright side, I didn't gain any inches, I lost the inches before thanksgiving and not after.... Yea... That's the ticket..... Oh Well it on to Part 2. It will run until Dec. 23 at witch point I will be off until Jan 3 the Day after my birthday.

Here are the numbers for anyone who is keeping track.

Body Part	Size (11/8/04)	(12/6/04)	Change
Neck:	21.25	20.5	-.75
Chest:	63.5	62.5	-1.0
Bicept:	21.5	22.25	.75
Forearm:	12.0	14.25	2.25
Waist:	81.0	76.50	-5.5
Thigh	35.5	34.0	-1.5
Cafe:	21.0	22.0	1.0
Total Inches:	255.75	252.0	-3.75
Weight	501 (11/23/04)	519	18

All measurements are done in pounds and inches.

Face

Side View (shirt off)

Front View (shirt off)

The first big push is over.

2004-11-25T10:19:00.000-05:00

Wow.... Its over... I have made it to my fist goal and it is time to party!!!! From here until Monday I will be off the low carb diet do to the holidays. It will be interesting to see how much damage is done to my progress with 1 day of feasting and 3 days of my old eating habits. I know I'm not going to be able to eat as much as I did in the past do to my stomach shrinking. I just hope my eyes are not to much larger than my stomach.

Here are the ending result for the first push.

Body Part	Size (11/8/04)	(11/25/04)	Change
Neck:	21.25	19.0	-2.25
Chest:	63.5	60.0	-3.5
Bicept:	21.5	20.75	-.75
Forearm:	12.0	13.5	1.5
Waist:	81.0	67.50	-13.5
Thigh	35.5	32.5	-3.00
Cafe:	21.0	19.75	-1.25
Total Inches:	255.75	233.0	-22.75
Weight	501	501	0

All measurements are done in pounds and inches.

The scale is here

2004-11-23T13:33:00.000-05:00

Well sports fans... Its official 501 lb. Is the new starting point for this challenge. It's a shame that I did not have a reliable scale at the start of this round... Oh well Its a good starting point.

Week 2 Results are in.

2004-11-22T13:20:00.000-05:00

Well it the end of week 2 and here are the results.

Body Part	Size (11/8/04)	(11/22/04)	Change
Neck:	21.25	19.25	-2.0
Chest:	63.5	61.0	-2.5
Bicept:	21.5	21.5	0.0
Forearm:	12.0	13.5	1.5
Waist:	81.0	70.0	-11.0
Thigh	35.5	30.75	-1.75
Cafe:	21.0	19.75	-1.25
Total Inches:	255.75	235.75	-20.0
Weight	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

All measurements are done in pounds and inches.

Face

Side View (shirt off)

Front View (shirt off)

I hate the weekends......

2004-11-21T14:59:00.000-05:00

Here it is Sunday morning for me... Wow what a week, over the week I have gone from 3 double cheese burgers at Mc Donalds to 2 With no buns of course.... Everything has been going just great until this weekend. To though who have been following my story, my goal was to stay on the low carb diet until thanksgiving. Well I'm sill on goal... But yesterday sucked.... I woke up kind late, and didn't eat anything when I fist woke up, I just wasn't hungry. A little while after that my good friend BSD showed up and my parents invited him to dinner. Here is what my parents whipped up. Fried chicken coated in a flour mix, mashed potatoes, peas, gravy, and 2 different types of bread. Now here is the scary thing this is a normal meal for my parents. I had no problem with the chicken, mashed potatoes, or the gravy. But the hole grain bread.... It looked so good... Now I'm sure one piece would have caused no harm to my plans, but deep down in side I knew if I had one, it would snowball from there. So I passed on what they had made and grabbed some of my cajun turkey Brest, and cheese and zapped it the microwave. But I still find my self craving the bread....

Search for a new scale

2004-11-16T05:28:00.000-05:00

So, After my last attempt to find out how much I weigh, I have decided to go to the extreme and get shipping scale. It will Handel up to 1,000 lbs. Now if I break this one... Now I know I'm in trouble. It should be here in a week.... So I can finally get a real number on how much I weight.

High capacity 1 ton shipping scale

Sorry....

2004-11-16T05:11:00.000-05:00

I need to apologize to though who have made posts to my blog. I switched over to a new logging tool and it cleared out all the posts.. I'm so sorry...

1 Week Down !

2004-11-15T16:12:00.000-05:00

Well It has been 1 week, and so far so good.... Other that my mom making French toast Sunday morning, and my father making stew on Sunday night. I have been doing ok... This time I'm not having the carving for pizza like my first go around, and this is a life saver... If things keep on going like this I should make thanksgiving with out any problems....

On a sad note, I tried to weigh my self on 2 cheap scales, and when I say cheap I'm talking Target specials $5.99 X 2 and I got a reading of 498 Lbs. Now that is a shocking number ok, at least to me it is.... Now there was a problem, because of me using such High quality Scales ... Cough.. Cough.... I'm not sure on the results, because when I steeped off the scales I noticed that I had crushed one.... See the photos below for good laph.

Now its time for the 1 week numbers.....

Body Part	Size (11/8/04)	(11/15/04)	Change
Neck:	21.25	19.5	-1.75
Chest:	63.5	61.75	-1.75
Bicept:	21.5	20.5	-1.0
Forearm:	12.0	14.0	2.0
Waist:	81.0	73.25	-7.75
Thigh	35.5	33.75	-1.75
Cafe:	21.0	20.5	-.5
Total Inches:	255.75	243.25	-12.5
Weight	Unknown	~498 (Scale Broke after weighing)	Unknown

All measurements are done in pounds and inches.

Face

Side View (shirt off)

Front View (shirt off)

The Scales.

Crunch.

Day 4 (mmm I want Carbs....)

2004-11-12T03:54:00.000-05:00

Well, Its the end of day 4... So far I have been able to keep to my plan of less than 15 carbs a day. Currently my diet consist of eggs and sausage, with some cheese for breakfast (~1:30PM) Mc Donalds Double Cheese Burgers with No Buns for Lunch (~6:00PM) and some Teriocki Marinated Chicken for dinner (~1:00 Am). With it being the begging of the Round 2, I'm finding my self making the portions larger than I should, but as my body adjust to the change in food I will lower the quantity of the food I eat. I remember back to the begging of Round 1. I use to eat 5 Double Cheese burgers with out the bun and I was still hungry. Round 2, I'm starting at 3, and I hope to get down to 2 by the end of the month.

But its starting.... The craving for carbs... My brother got home late tonight, and whipped up 2 packages of Roman nodules. Ho ma did they look good.. But then I remembered.... "If I cheat on this the only person I hurt is my self." so... Until thanksgiving... I'm on the high road.... Its only a couple of weeks....

Body Part	Size (11/8/04)	(11/11/04)	Change
Neck:	21.25	19.5	-1.75
Chest:	63.5	63.5	0
Bicept:	21.5	20.0	-1.5
forearm:	12.0	14.0	2.0
Waist:	81.0	82.5	1.5
Thigh	35.5	34.0	-1.5
Cafe:	21.0	22.0	1.0
Total Inches:	255.75	255.5	-.25
Weight	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

Ok... Now I'm confused... I'm seeing huge changes in some body parts but not a small change overall... I'm wondering if my body is shifting is supplies fat around or if the time of day make that big of a difference. The first batch were taking in my morning (~1 PM) this batch was take at my night (~4 AM) I guess I can try again when I wake up... See you then...

Day 0

2004-11-08T14:08:00.000-05:00

I have some stats that I wanted to make official. At this time I still do not know my current weight because I still can not find a scale that will go high enough.. But I herd a rumor that If I get 2 identical scales I should be able to add the weight from both and get my current weight. I will be trying that this weekend. Even though I do not know how much I weight, I can share with my current measurements. Since I do know what you are official suppose to measurements, I thought I would take the main parts see the table below.

Body Part	Size (11/8/04)
Neck:	21.25
Chest:	63.5
Bicept:	21.5
Forarm:	12.0
Waist:	81.0
Thigh	35.5
Cafe:	21.0
Total:	255.75
Weight:	Unknown

All measurments are done in pounds and inches.
(Note: Blog Created 11/12/04 for events on 11/8/04)

Round 2 Day -1

2004-11-08T04:21:00.000-05:00

Here it is the night before the big kick-off for round 2. I have picked up a digital camera to help document my progress. I will set all photo to the Macro Mode, and set the resulting to 640X480 and the only editing I will do is to change the name.

Face

Side View (shirt off)

Front View (shirt off)

Edit: 11/15/04 added Face Link

The Problem.

2004-11-05T04:57:00.000-05:00

Well.... I have a problem... I need to loose some weight.... ok a lot of weight.... Let me start by saying I have all ways been a big person.... But it got out of control for me a few years back.... I was working for a company in downtown Seattle, It was the best time of my life.... Then... I lost my job do to cut backs in the IT indusrty.... and It crushed me litterley.. I found my self stay at home and eating, A long walk was going to the car so I could get some fast food. I did this for 18 months.....So my weight went from ~380lbs Way ... Way up.... I then found my self forced to move back to my parrents house... witch left me even more depressed... and I put on even more weight... So in January 2004, I deceded enought is enought.... I started my new life....
So... in January was just barely able to fix into my work paints (size 66) and 3 months later Im down to (Size 62)... but.... this is as far as I could go.... I decied that I need to give my body a chance to get use to the new weight..... and I have maintained it sence then. but that is not good enought.... It is time to start back up again.... and here I go... Starting 11/7/04 I will be hitting the Adkins initaion again hopefully untill thanksgiving, and then from then till christmas. Hope to drop at least 2 more sizes to ring in the new year at size 60. My goal is 350 by 6/1/05 and 320 by the end of 2005.