Weight Loss - Part Deux

I always need a "push" or incentive to get anything rolling. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, the diet that I need to be on right now. Last year (actually two years ago), that push came when I got invited to compete in a "Biggest Loser" contest.

30 Days in the Hole
30 Days to lose as much weight as possible (on a % basis). $10 kicked in by all participants. Well, I dropped 25 lbs. in the 30 days - and finished second. And no, I won't publicize the % of weight lost - since this will allow your average math guru to figure out my "start" weight.

And Boom Goes the Dynamite
About a month or two after the contest ended my weight started to slowly but surely creep back towards well too familiar territory. Before I knew I was back where I started at the original start weight. I was quite disgusted with myself.

Destiny Turns on the Computer
Last Sunday (almost two years after the contest and being back at my max weight) the weather was uncharacteristically hot for this time of year. With that, it was very hot inside my house as well. On general principle I wasn't going to turn on the air conditioner (come on...it's almost November). I needed to head upstairs to my office for the important task of checking the football scores. I labored to my desk, sat down, and then it hit me - almost literally. I was sweating profusely, out of breath, and feeling like I was going to faint. Truth be told, I thought I was going to keel-over and kick the bucket right there and then.

Back On The Wagon
So, on Monday at 1:30AM I said goodbye to the way of the old (by woofing down a nice bowl of ice cream), and said hello to the way of the new (strong low-fat diet, exercise and whatever else it takes). Where will this take me? Hopefully out of the abyss.