biggest loser – week 5

I know.  Today you woke up and thought to yourself, “I wonder if I’ll see Dave in his boxers today?”  Well, the answer *finally* is “yes”.  And I’m proud of the results thus far.

As of this morning, I weighed 220lbs.  This is a pretty big milestone for me.  Although it’s just 18lbs on my personal Biggest Loser trek, I started this year at 240lbs.  I’ve lost 20lbs!  My next milestones will come up sooner than later.  At 216lbs, I’ve lost 10% of my body weight.  At 214lbs, I cease being “obese” according to the terms set forth by the BMI.  

And furthest away, at 202lbs, I’ll be the weight I was in college – once again earning my former nickname “Deuce-Aught-Deuce”.

I feel rather encouraged that I’m still losing weight despite bingeing on In-and-Out while house-sitting in San Marino this past week.

Because there’s been a huge lapse in my reporting I’ll substitute fake pictures with a graph from WiiFit.

Allow me to explain.  Last time we talked, I was just creeping below the 230 mark.  I had pretty nice success, until the 5 pound increase around the second red dot.  This was due to our trip to Palm Springs (another story entirely!) that was mostly drinking and eating.  I think we ate Mexican food 2 meals in a row.  Which is most certainly “off diet” for fellow South Beachers.   I have a picture from that week, but it was taken at night and is most definitely terrible.

on losing…

So there you have it. By some miracle I have lost weight!   But that’s not all I lost.  I lost my iPhone this week at the gym.  I set it down when I weighed in. Went up stairs to “ellipticize”. Freaked out went back to where I left it 1 minute later and it was gone.  I asked around, no one knew anything.

I suspect they are all liars.

But don’t feel too bad for me, I went to AT&T and thankfully was at a point in my contract that I could get a replacement for cheaper than $399.  I don’t think losing my iPhone would have been as-big as deal, except for the fact that we recently bought a brand new computer!  So my tech budget is officially spent for the fiscal year 2009.

I’m losing all kinds of things recently.  I think I accidentally tipped a car wash guy $100.  D’oh.

But you know what I haven’t lost?  My wife.  She’s the best.  She’s overwhelmingly gracious and has been extremely helpful to me when I was fraught with calamities.  So I’m going to keep my eye on her and “hold fast to what is good” as they say. [/mush]

Ok.  Wish me luck. I’m off to the gym again.  Hopefully this time I’ll lose more weight than iPhones!  HAR! HAR! HAR! NYUK NYUK!