About My Fatness
25
January
I’m 6′2″ and run about 225#. I’m pretty big.
Too big, really. I can still untuck my shirt just enough to fool you from the front, but if you look from the side, there’s no denying it. I need to be smaller.
I’ve gained a sense of urgency since DJ was born, that if I don’t make myself smaller the odds increase that my kids will be pissing away my life insurance money at a young age. I want to be able to dangle that carrot in front of them until they’re both at least 40.
I’m going to try to get smaller, and if you aren’t repulsed by it I want to take you along for the ride, to chide me, encourage me, berate me, whatever. Unfortunately, I was one of those kids in school that made fun of the fat guy, so my now being the fat guy seems like karma.
So your calling me ‘fatso’ is not only appropriate given my past behavior, it may help to motivate me.
I’ll try to update my progress weekly and intersperse that with diet changes, workout regimens and the other stuff I might be doing to get small. Oh, and to keep me honest, there will be pictures. Horrible, horrible pictures.
If any of this gives someone else a little help and keeps them pestering their kids for another birthday, I’d love it.
1. amanda | June 23rd, 2008 at 10:18 am
Yup, totally here trolling the archives. I think you should post more about your journey…accountability, support, both great and cheaper than a second hand stair stepper, it’s what makes blogging so incredible. Besides, people need to hear what other people are going through.
Good luck, it is so worth it!
2. Jack | June 24th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Really? For those stories I’ve read, unless there was some other compelling element to the story, like a doctor saying “lose weight or die,” reading through them felt like work.
I will admit that when I was posting about it (however briefly), even though I don’t think there was a single reader at the time, in the evenings when I would reach into the pantry for a snack, a little voice would ask me how I’d justify the lapse in willpower on Friday, when I’d post my weight status.
So that was kinda neat, the blog having that effect.
Maybe part of my issue with it is my gender - something just feels a little unmanly about posting on this topic. That is unless I find myself a buff 190 pounds, muscles slightly rippling just from holding up the camera for the photo. Then I’d probably post every hour.
But for the record, I’m at 208. Would love to get below 200 by September.