I’ve set a lofty resolution for this year: I’m going to try to lose one pound per week. I currently weigh about 270 pounds. I’d like to get down below 225. My wife thinks I’ll be too thin at 215, but I’m thinking 200 might be closer to ideal. We’ll see.
The key is going to be finding time to get some exercise. I’ve been monitoring my weight over the past six months, and my eating habits aren’t too bad, overall (okay, so maybe I shouldn’t have had that pork BBQ sandwich for lunch 
). If I can just start getting some regular exercise in, to burn off more calories, I should do okay.
At some point, I’ll probably rig up a dynamically updated chart here on this webpage to act as extra incentive. That was one thing that helped when I decided to quit smoking several years ago: I made it known to all my friends that I was going to quit. That gave me a major dis-incentive to backslide.
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My secret was to put a DVD player in front of a treadmill and go through all of those DVD commentaries and special features I have sitting around. The extended Fellowship of the Ring commentaries alone are 14 hours! I’m down about 30 pounds. Good luck!
Hey Slider - that’s a good idea. We don’t currently have a treadmill, but we’ve discussed it, because we could also use it for Jamie. However, guess it’ll have to wait til after the move, and we’ll just have to hit the DVD-less pavement around the neighborhood. Sigh.
Although, on another note, the elevator in our building is broken so I’ve already climbed three flights of stairs three times today - that’ll work off the pounds too! I should just keep that up even after the elevator is fixed!
Suze - I used to work on the fifth floor and never rode the elevator. When I moved to a new building and worked on the first floor, I quickly put on about 15 pounds that has never come off (and probably never will). So, climbing the stairs really does help.
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