I’m fat again this morning. Sometime I look into the mirror, I feel thin, and I look thinner. Well, not thin, but not fat. This morning I loooked fat. And the scale said I’m fat too. 192.8 lbs.

I had a snack bar for breakfast. And I’m having my curry chicken salad with fruit. I ordered a chicken stirfry salad, but don’t know what got mixed up there. But it’s good. Nice portion for me now. Not too big.

My legs are still sore from running and walking yesterday.

It doesn’t matter how much we have to lose. Andy, Mike, and I covers all the spectrum. 190’s 200’s, and 300’s. But I’m sure we can all connect in many ways.

Andy’s salad has too much dressing!!! I told you not to drown the salad with dressing!

Of course, many of us cope our weight problems with jokes and laughters. But I know this is not a laughing matter. But that is not going to stop me from laughing about my own fat, while I get myself back on track.

Since I am older than Mike and Andy, my motivation is mostly coming from health. Yes, I am in my thirties, 32, and losing weight is so much harder, like Andy said, in your thirties. Looking better would be nice. I admit I’m vein. Who isn’t? Whores! But health comes first for me for the first time.

Andy and Mike, we’ll walk the fat track together, and hopefully, sometime in the future, we’ll be healthier, lighter, fitter, and happier.

Hey guys. My name is Mike and i’m a 21 year old gay man living in Richmond, Va. I go to college and i’m studying Political Science and International Relations with a minor in French and Religious Studies. About 3 years ago, I had the Gastric Bypass surgery where they essentially staple a little stomach pouch, cut it from your other stomach (so I think I qualify as a human cow because I have two stomachs…moo), then reroute your intestine to that pouch. The idea is to not eat as much and it can become physically painful if you eat too much. I lost 80 lbs from 320 to 240.

 Well…3 years later and i’ve put the weight back on (at least 80% of all Gastric Bypass patients do). While I am not criticising the gastric bypass community, I think that the surgery doesn’t work that much because I am very much of the belief that our food tastes is something learned. If you grow up eating fast food, you will enjoy fast food a lot when you have the economic ability to purchase such food. Thus, obesity in the US. Hearing that John and Andy were getting a blog together to monitor their weight loss, I wanted to join them in this effort since every successful weight loss endeavor needs a strong support base.

 So…yeah…that’s about it

I’m going to bed because I am hungry!

Update: I didn’t go to bed, I sat on the porch. I came back into the house and I’m hungry again! LOL!

Eating:

First of all, I thought I’d update you on what I ate today. I didn’t eat anything for breakfast, I got up around noon, I didn’t sleep well and I didn’t want to eat what the family had. They had bacon, eggs & biscuits. The bacon was swimming in fat, it was totally disgusting looking, so I didn’t eat anything for breakfast.

For dinner (lunch to you), I ate spaghetti. It had meat, pasta sauce & noodles. I didn’t eat a lot of it, just about a handful amount. I had two rolls with it.

For supper, I had a salad, which was SOOO good. I’m so tempted to make myself another one!

As far as snacks go, I had 2 chocolate chip cookies & a TINY, fun sized 3-Musketeers bar. I could easily get up and go have more chocolate chip cookies, BUT I WON’T! (I’d rather have the salad!)

Exercising:

The dog and I hit the road this evening after it had cooled down. The dog, Brownie, walked me to the curve of the road. Its not a long distance, but, I was drenched with sweat and exhausted..so, I figure its a good walk.

Like my free tupperware?

I just fixed myself a really amazing salad. Oooh, its so delicious. Its a pre-packaged deal, Dole’s Classic Iceberg salad. I added tomato and onion to it. I also added some French dressing (shut up, I have to have dressing). Its sooo good. I think I could eat this for breakfast, lunch and supper (thats dinner for ya’ll that call it dinner).

I know that may seem like an odd way to introduce myself, but, that salad, SOOO good. I’m so tempted to go and fix myself another one, BUT, I know, I know, John would tell me about portion control!
Why did I want to start this blog? I am overweight, really, truly, overweight. I weigh almost 400 pounds. I went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago when I was sick and I weighed 386 pounds. I’ve always weighed a lot, a lot of it is contributed to me having a bad thyroid, which I am now back on my thyroid medication, so hopefully, that will help me on this weight loss journey.

I’d also like to be able to buy clothes at normal stores. I have to go all the way to Knoxville to the Big & Tall Casual Male store just to buy clothes for myself and their not cheap! $50 for a pair of pants is RIDICULOUS if you ask me! I hope I can buy clothes at department stores again, soon!

I’d also like to lose weight so that I won’t have such a hard life. I’m 20 years old, soon to be 21. I don’t want to be 30 and fat. Everyone that I know that is over 30 and is overweight has always told me to lose the weight before I get old and have an even harder time losing it.

I will be updating you on a regular basis, and if I don’t, you can feel free to hound me. At the moment, the only way for me to update you on my progress is with a measuring tape. There aren’t many scales out there that can weigh people of my size and I don’t want to go to the truck stop to be weighed!

Ok, I took a break for a moment to take pictures of the measuring tape. Well, bad news, it wouldn’t go all the way around me. BUT, we’ll know I’m losing weight once it starts to wrap around me!

Hopefully, with this blog, I’ll be forced to exercise more, eat right and hopefully, lose some weight. Thats what I’m hoping anyways!

Okay, I’m John. I’m Asian. But I’m fat. With my height of 5′11.5″, yeah I like precision, my maximum weight is 175-ish before being overweight. I am now about 192 lbs.
I want to be about 170 lbs by February 2007. If I can lose ore by then, great, I’ll eat more when I go back to Malaysia (February 2007).

I’ll be blogging about what I ate, what I did as far as physical activities. My progress, or lack of, or put on more, or frustration, all those good stuff.

Andy, I’m waiting to see your post soon.