July 29, 2008 - Happy Birthday to Me

Day One - 331 Lbs

Breakfast- None
Lunch- Double Whopper with Cheese (no onion), Large Onion Ring, Large Diet Coke
Dinner- Two Large Onion Rings (w/ Ketchup), Dinner Salad (w/ Bacon, Cheese, and Ranch), three dinner rolls (w/ honey butter), 14 oz New York Strip Steak (w/grilled onions and steak sauce), Large Baked Potato (w/ sour cream and butter), three 16 oz Diet Cokes


We all have hurdles to jump over at some time in our lives. The nice thing about hurdles though is that if you don't give a damn about the race you can just pick them up and carry them with you. Today is my birthday and I have decided to drop the hurdle I've been carrying around with me since I was a child.

Alright, now that I have streched that analogy about as far as it will go let me tell you the deal. I am 30 today and I have picked today as my arbitrary day to start losing weight. My father died last year, he was in a coma for his 60th birthday and then died a few days later. My father was a complicated man who I loved very much but when he was younger he loved his food. He told me that after finding out he was diabetic he freaked out for about a week and then went on eating the same stuff for the next decade.

Today is my starting date because I am hoping to be able to push back my mid-life crisis for another ten or fifteen years. I'd like it to involve some sort of sports car and frankly that is just out of my budget for right now.