Why, monitor, thank you! You flatter me.

 

Wrong thread

 

Thanks for the info, Gargoyle! It might be UA here I come!

 

We know that view since the last time we there we were staying at the King David and my friend had a balcony suite facing the old city. It truly is a wonderful and awe-inspiring vista so we managed to arrange the party there every night.

Is that where you are right now?

 

Diet progress - broke 202 (in the good way) today. Hope to still be able to break 200 by the end of the year

 

Congrats

 

That's awesome, icurehere2! I'm right behind you. It's been a life changing experience and I feel great. I've been working very closely with a fabulous dietician who really knows her stuff. I'm fascinated by it, which helps.

 

While my goal was below 200 by the end of 2009, I'm now thinking of an outside opportunity at 200 by the beginning of next week.

One complicating factor and one motivating factor:

Complicating - I'll have to partake with our friend Italy98 at the Lexington / Keeneland / Woodford Reserve Do this weekend.

Motivating - Physical is Tuesday morning.

I dropped the first 20 fast (less than two months after starting at the end of July) so I went a while of "maintaining weight" to be confident there wasn't something wrong with me.

 

CONGRATS (Though I may envy you in quite the way). I unfortunately keep going the other way... graduated @ 165 and I'm around 180, 185 now.

 

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We must be on the same diet plan. Last year August I was 162. As of today, 185. I blame it on the new wife .

 

Unfortunately I started working at a desk rather than walking 1-2 miles per day when I was in college.

 

You're supposed to drop weight fast for the first month to couple months. The real kick in the pants is your metabolism slows dramatically after a month or so because your body actually thinks it is starving. Well, it is, kind of, so to combat that and continue to lose weight, you need to reduce your caloric intake even further to say about 1200-1500 cals/day for a man to lose 1-2lbs a week.

After three months or so, the cycle repeats on a slightly different level. Your metabolism has leveled off, but your body has not shaken the idea that you are starving yourself and begins to increase production of gherelin, the hormone that causes you to be hungry. This is when most people blow a new eating plan. They just can't deal with it. Unfortunately, the only way to combat this natural process is to suffer through it. It eventually passes after a couple weeks. Been there, done that. It sucked.

 

I was 143 my first year of college baseball - with the two blown discs in my neck, I was even a half inch taller then.

 

Are you still looking for another new job after you already graduated from Tulane University by last year in 2008?

 

Congrats, ic2

I usually walk 2 -3 miles daily and take a stroll across the city on weekends (around 15 miles). Keeps me in shape.