Hello…
At the beginning of this year, I weighed 515 pounds. I’ll wait a moment for the figure “one-quarter of a ton” to sink in. That’s a chair-breaking, two-airplane seat, heart-attack (or something else) waiting-to-happen number.
I recently began a journey towards better health and, hopefully, a longer life with my wife and family. Using Weight Watchers, a YMCA membership and the love and support of several, I’m working towards dropping at least 300 pounds by the end of 2009. That journey will be detailed here, in this blog, along with some of my thoughts and feelings about America’s heavy-set culture.
My goal with this blog is to update every weekday, but, as with weight loss and management, sometimes there are setbacks. So, please don’t interpret a failure to post one day as a failure of the blog. I’ll be back at it soon enough.:)
I also hope others will share thoughts and opinions about their own journeys to health with me and anyone else who reads this blog. Please feel free to agree, disagree, argue or vent, but, let’s keep it civil. There are plenty of places to flame one another, and this isn’t one of them.
Monday, I’ll tell a bit more about myself and how my journey has gone so far.
As is said in Oklahoma,
Boomer Sooner and Keep the Faith!
-s2bssooner
Hey – I found your site through Devlyn’s and wow … you’ll be in my thoughts. One step at a time!
SK
August 20, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Well, your readership has increased by two more, man. Good luck. I’m on a similar journey or two. I’m on a journey to lose a little more weight, and to drop any other bad habits I may or may not have… like procrastinating with my writing. I like this blog site too. I wonder if I signed up for it at some point and forgot about it… Regardless, once again, good luck. I’ll be cheering for ya.
Mahaffey
August 30, 2008 at 8:54 am