Finishing the basement

I have been working on my basement since about July last year. I have paid to have some of it done and done some of it myself. Sometimes I am too handy

for my own good. My wife knows that I have the ability to lay tile so I have been tiling for about 2 months. Basically just on weekends. Somehow I was talked into laying about 900 square feet of tile. The first couple of weeks were miserable. The bathroom was really

difficult. I had to make a million cuts. Then I worked my way out into the hallway. Again a million cuts. Finally I am in the big room. I still have quite a few cuts but I lay 10 pieces to each cut so it is going much faster. Hopefully I will be done in a couple of weeks.

The diet is still in the maintenance mode for about 3 more weeks. Then I will hit it hard again. The exercise room is up and running but I have been too busy to use it. Monday will be 30 min on the trainer then Tuesday 45, Wednesday 1 hour, Thursday rest and then start over.

277 And holding

Fighting the weight is no fun. I am holding at 277. Right now I am just trying to maintain the weight loss. Three weeks from now I will hit the diet hard again. I plan to get down to 245 by the beginning of April. I set up the bikes in the basement. Ready for some indoor training. Outdoor is not even possible. The inversion is like mud soup. Today I swear you could taste it. Here is a photo of my Dog Mookie mugging me on the chair. I have no idea why I am holding a lacrosse stick. Another photo of the new exercise room.

A photo where I am trying to hide behind a seriously skinny girl. Ryan and the crew are on the side of the trail. I am hiding behind Alana (I think that is her name) Sort of like a bear hiding behind a sapling. Anyhow I am at least 40 lbs smaller. Now can I keep it off and take off another 30? This could get interesting.

Still no photos.

I am down from 310 to 273 today. I keep thinking I need to take photos but I cannot bring myself to take the pictures. Anyway I am going to go on a maintenance diet for 5 weeks then go back on the diet. During the maintenance period I will ride the stationary bike and try to drop a few more pounds. This is tough but I am happy losing 37 lbs.

Scale scale where is my scale.

I decided to diet again. Shortly after the last post I dropped the diet and gained everything back. Two weeks ago I started again. I am at 290 and down 15 pounds. Some how 220 does not seem that far away. The charts say I should weigh 190. Cannot figure that one out. Anyway I am doing fairly well but still having some difficulty. Maybe I should post a photo or two. I will see what I can find. I may go go crazy but I am determined this go around. I said that the last time too.

Riding to work

I started riding to work this week. About 18 miles each way. Man I suffer on the hills. The ride takes me about 1 hour and 20 minutes. The ride home yesterday was hot. 96 degrees is miserable on a fat guy. I ran out of water just past the point of the mountain. My legs pretty much quit and I had to do the walk of shame going up a short steep hill to get back to the bike path in Draper. Man it is embarising enough just wearing spandex at 295 lbs let alone being the fat guy pushing his bike up the sidewalk. That will not happen again. I think I need to make sure I eat something about an hour before I go home and also drink a water bottle at the same time.

I saw Kung Fu Panda last night. My wife said the the Panda reminds her of me. How's that for a complement?

Fred Flintstone is just big boned

I have to say I really hate dieting. Man I would kill for a bronto burguer. Work has been particulary difficult. I hang with a bunch of prople who can either eat anything they want or do not care and just eat everything anyway. They are all giving me a load of crap about my eating habits. I probably deserve some of the abuse. I have gone to the fast food diet during the week. Some nutritionist will love this but I eat an Egg McMuffin and a large coffee for breakfast. I have a grilled chicken sandwich for lunch. Dinner is usually soup and a sandwich. Dinner is my big meal around 600 calories sometimes a bit more. Anyhow Egg McMuffin 300 calories, Grilled Chicken 360, Soup 200 calories and sandwich I am guessing is about 400 calories. So I am around 1200 calories for the day. Weekends I am trying to keep the calories under 1500 but there is no specific foods just what ever I can find that seems fairly low calorie.

Cycling has been difficult. Riding and not eating are a great recipee for losing weight and also a great recipee for feeling like dirt. I can ride 30 miles and not feel too bad when I am eating. But now that I am not eating 30 miles feels like 29 miles of hell.

This morning I am at 295 lbs so I only have 75 lbs to go.

By the way that is not me in the Fred costume. I feel like and I wish I were as svelt as that dude but it is not me.