Exercise!

Those of you unfamiliar with the Weight Watchers program won’t be familiar with the idea of exercise Points. The concept is straight-forward though: physical activities are given a certain number of Points. One’s goal is to get as many activity Points in a week as they can, depending on their fitness level. I had been […]

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Audio post - 2/26/2008

It was a bad week, but it is easier to talk about it than to type it up. So I did just that. Enjoy!
http://weightjournal.com/audio/2747.ogg
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Perceptions revisited

In a previous article, I talked about how people perceive overweight people. In that entry, I said that I was “realizing that someone who sees me for the first time will still see me as a big fat guy.” While this may be true, it is not necessarily the case. I think that this is […]

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Weigh-in for 2/23: Making it right

Current weight: 285Difference from last entry: -5Difference from 2008 starting weight (290.5): -5.5
This could’ve been a very, very bad week. I had a really rough weekend last weekend. I made some extremely stupid choices food- and eating-wise, and it showed almost immediately. My weigh-in for Sunday was around 288, and my weigh-in on Monday morning […]

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Why do I want to lose weight?

At the WeightWatchers meeting this week, one of the questions for discussion was: “Why do I want to lose weight?” I figured that would make a great topic for a journal entry, so here I am.
Why I want to lose weight:

So I don’t have a heart attack when I am 40
So my children are not […]

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Weigh-in for 2/16: Exercise!

Current weight: 285.5Difference from last entry: -3.5Difference from 2008 starting weight (290.5): -5
This was a very interesting week. I’ve had kind of a rough time keeping my snacking under control. Well, strike that. I’ve had a hell of a bad week food-wise. I’ve been snacking, and not making very good choices food-wise in general. […]

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Fast food nutrition information/nutrition calculators

I have been baffled lately at the restaurant industry’s strong objections to being required to give nutritional information for their meals in the post-Supersize Me world. I do realize that, for the most part, the restaurant industry places much more value in profits than in providing healthy meals. But certainly restaurants would want to follow […]

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Weigh-in for 2/2: Sick week

Current weight: 289Difference from last entry: 0Difference from 2008 starting weight (290.5): -1.5
I have had a horrible, horrible cold all this past week. It’s been bugging me and annoying me all week, and made me miserable enough that I stayed home from work all week. For me, there’s always a toss-up between whether I will […]

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