Lose 100 pounds

My weight is holding steady, but it’s getting hotter (Mississippi Summer, you know), and my car has no air. Thus my BP is way up. I went to the doc, and he wants me to take stuff for it, but I’m paranoid about taking meds. Don’t know why, I just never do it. So, here’s the catch-22: My bp is high in part because of my weight, so I can’t exercise. But I can’t lower my BP via exercise, because it’s already too high. Comments? Suggestions? Maybe it’ll get better after I get used to the Summer again.

Today when I was at the gym (about which I have not been as dedicated as I should), I stepped on the scale for the first time in a couple weeks. I haven’t been exercising often, and when I do it hasn’t been incredibly intense. But I have continued to make pretty good food choices, with a couple of exceptions, so I actually fared better than I thought I would. Here’s the numbers:

SW: 325 – BMI: 42.9
01: 321 – BMI: 42.3 (5/1/07)
02: 310 – BMI: 40.9 (5/23/07)
CW: 302 – BMI: 39.8 (6/12/07)
GW: 225 – BMI: 29.7 (100 lbs!!!)
##: 023 – total so far :)

...bring myself to step on a scale the last week or so. I fell off for a couple days, but I’ve been making very good food choices overall, so maybe I’m not set back too bad. I need to get back in the gym, but every time I go, there’s the damn kids runnin’ all over the place! I don’t know why I’m intimidated by that, but I am. Oh well, today I’m making vegetarian chili – or trying anyway. I’m not much of a cook, but I figured if I take some beans, tomatoes, onions, peppers, garlic, chili powder, Tony’s (you folks from Louisiana know all about some Tony’s!), mushrooms (no meat); stick it in a pot on low for a couple hours – blamo! Chili. Right? I’ll let you know how aweful it is. HA!

This has not been a good week for this particular goal. I don’t know exactly where I’m at, but it can’t be better. I’m sick of my gym being overrun with 12 year olds as soon as school is out for summer. Access to certain areas ought to be restricted to people who pay real money and have real fitness goals and aren’t just screwing around running into people. So I decided to go outside, which would be good for me. But it’s so dang hot in the south that, unless you go out at 5 in the morning you’re gonna have a heart attack (esp. at my weight)!
Oh well. Next week will be better. Can’t be much worse.

My gym was closed Monday so I didn’t go. This morning I was supposed to go, but instead I had to go to the courthouse and get some info about my car. I got pulled over this weekend. The officer told me my plates were registered to another vehicle. He basically accused me of swiping them off some other car (a truck, actually) and puting them on mine. I didn’t whine or ask for any special treatment. The only thing I requested of him was that he double-check, which pissed him off. He said “That’s not my responsibility! I caught you in a crime, now you got to go to court and prove what you done!” Hence, the courthouse this morning.
Long-story-short, he had transposed one of the numbers on my plate and the tags on my car ARE mine and have ALWAYS been mine. I am consoled by two things: 1) my car has no A/C, so even though I haven’t been to the gym since Friday I still feel like I sweated off a pound or two getting a ticket, and 2) now he’ll have to go to court and “prove what HE done!”

The other day I mentioned that I had been a little discouraged with my workouts and hadn’t weighed myself in about 3 weeks. I expected to step on the scale to find myself having gained back the 4 whole pounds I had lost up to that point. Well, I’m still over 300, but my latest assessment was not as bad off as I had anticipated:

SW: 325 – BMI: 42.9
01: 321 – BMI: 42.3 (5/1/07)
CW: 310 – BMI: 40.9 (5/23/07)
GW: 225 – BMI: 29.7 (100 lbs!!!)
##: 015 – total so far :)

It’s assessment day (before I do the aforementioned restart of my exercise program). I’ve been told that the key to accurate assessment is consistency. Same clothes (roughly. otherwise that could be disgusting), same scale, same time of day, etc. My two concerns – and it’s probably paranoia more than concern – are that I work irregular hours, so an early morning weigh-in won’t work, and I can’t aford what I would consider a “reliable” scale for a man of my (ha!) STATURE. So here’s the deal: scale at wal-mart (where I am almost every other day) at noon sharp (a time I’m always up and about no matter what.

By the way, here were the basic stats last time I checked (about 3 weeks ago):
Ht: 6’1”
SW: 325
CW: 321
GW: 225 – reflects 100 lb weight-loss, not ultimate dream goal)
TL: 004 – as of 3 weeks ago. Probably all back now :(

I have been at this one off-and-on for a long time. The most recent restart resulted in my going to the gym pretty regularly for several weeks, but being unable to control my diet. Of course going from a no-activity lifestyle to a semi-active one resulted in my losing a few pounds, but it sort of reached a plateau. So, there I stand.
My current weight is about 320 (I really do look JUST like Peter Griffin!), which is about 130lbs from what the government says I should be. What do they know? All I know is that if I could get from 320 to 220, I would have achieved a fantastic goal! So today I restart again. Wow. Redundancy.