Tired of being the fat man in a tiny car

 I’ve drastically cut back and switched completely to sugar free/diet/zero calorie sodas, and replaced my Orange Mint Lifesavers with Sugar Free Jolly Ranchers. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be, bit I think that has a lot to do with me counting calories and reading nutritional labels of what I’m buying and eating. I’ve learned that drinking a tall glass of water when I’m questioning if I’m actually hungry or if I’m boredom eating has really shown me a lot of my grazing is boredom eating.

I got another copy of the book that really truly helped me a decade ago (Dieting For Dumbies), and was gifted a new book Foods That Harm & Foods That Heal. Not sure I’ll be able to spend 30-45 minutes on the eliptical 2 or 3 times daily-which was never the plan, but I wanted to loose the weight bad enough I eliminated ALL the candy and traded my bad eating and drinking habits for a relationship with the eliptical machine.

Now it’s time to head back to the gym. I’m not trying to spend 45 minutes on the eliptical 2 or 3 times EVERY DAY like I did 10 years ago, but that wasn’t the plan then. I just didn’t want to be the fat guy in the tiny car anymore and turned in my bad eating and drinking habits-AND ALL MY CANDY for an addiction to the gym. It took a 11 months, but I went from 284lbs to 196lbs.

It’s been 10 years and I don’t have that crazy energy I had a decade ago, but its time to start and put in the effort now that I’m back to better health. After 2 1/2 months (Nov 25th to be exact) of sinusitus and chest conjestion, it was nice to finally have clear sinuses and lungs. Then it snowed. 

Now I’m ready.

I'm so jealous of people who know how to shut up, I shut up and subtitles come out my face.

 

Sometimes I can be long-winded and tell you every little minute detail of what had happened, but I know that comes from being the son of parents of thoroughly knowledgeable, intellectual parents that  we’re excellent communicators that could explain things in detail to people and give them all the knowledge they needed so they didn’t have any questions to ask.

This is a blessing and a curse at the same time to me; between my ability to get sidetracked, or start a new story in a story (like the movie Inception), and short attention span‘s of others sometimes I’m just rambling on like a Ramblin Man.

As a dance to my drummer and my own beat, my second New Year’s resolution there’s to be more direct communicating with others. Well, it is good to hear a friend’s voice, but I haven’t heard in a long time and catch up-I don’t need to tell everybody every little thing and monopolize or dominate the conversation. Communication is a two-way street and I realize I’ve kind of been driving right down the middle of it with long ass texts. I guess I figure it’s because I figure I can put everything into a text (I LOATHE TEXTING BTW), and everything’s there, so if you have missed something you can always scroll up to review The notes above lol. 

I grew up talking on the phone and I’ll continue calling people on the phone. There are some of y’all out there that need to set up or clean out your voicemail so I can leave you a message just telling you I was thinking about you and wondering how you were doing, but it is what it is and I’m trying to keep in contact with all those great important people of and in my life.

And somebody really needs to come along an update that speech to text app because the amount of time I end up correct in the incorrect dictation Drives me bonkers. If I had a nickel for every time, I’ve screamed at my iPad “Can you hear the words coming out of my mouth?” I would be driving a Porsche 911 instead of a Honda-or have a couple of Honda’s.

Long story short-TOO LATE!!! I’m gonna try harder to use less words to get my point across.

I'm so jealous of people who know how to shut up, I shut upSometimes I can be long-winded and tell you every little minute detail of what had happened, but I know that comes from being the son of parents of thoroughly knowledgeable, intel