Weigh-In 10/31/07

Happy Halloween!

Weight: 235.8
Week Change: -0.2
Total Change: -73.2

Not down much, but down is always better than up! Now if I can avoid left-over halloween candy for the rest of the week, I'll be good. :)

Weigh-In 10/24/07

Weight: 236.0
Week Change: -2.0
Total Change: -73.0

Kind of hard to believe I've dropped over 70 pounds. Although the huge stack of old clothes I've got bagged up for donation drives it home. They're all so big! :)

And so far so good with the new scale. My official "goal weight" when I was at Weight Watchers was 205. That's BMI of 25 for 6'4" tall. We'll see how close I get now that I'm not counting points like mad, and eating the occasional brownie :)

Street Fighter: The Later Years

Episode 5 of this hilarious series came out recently, and it's hilarious. The internet rules. (Although at this point I bet Capcom marketing is behind the whole thing, it's still worth watching...)


http://www.collegehumor.com/tag:street-fighter-the-later-years

Weigh-In 10/17/07

First the weights, then some pretty hefty disclaimers:

Weight: 238.0
Week Change: -6.2
Total Change: -71.0

Ok, disclaimer time:

1) It's been two weeks since my last weigh-in
2) I quit Weight Watchers last week, and bought a scale
3) Since I have a scale at home now, I can weigh myself when it's most advantageous. By this I mean in the morning, so I don't have to starve myself all day.
4) And since I have the scale in the privacy of my own home, I don't have to wear heavy things like, say, clothes. ;) That's worth a couple of pounds right there.

So this week was a pretty big jump. We'll see how it goes as we move forward.

Why did I quit Weight Watchers? Couple reasons for this:

1) $40 a month. I haven't stayed for a meeting in months, and I stopped using the website to track points awhile ago, so the value of the service has seriously dropped.
2) Now that I don't work at CoreStreet anymore, getting into Park Street by 5:30pm every Wednesday has become a real hassle. I probably could have found a closer meeting in Watertown or Newton or something, but eh.

So that's that. This blog has now become my main motivator. I'm committed to continue weighing myself weekly and posting it here for all to see. So if any of you who read this see me slacking on my weigh-in posts, I hereby give you permission to bug the hell out of me. :)

More FireFox Add-ons

I installed a couple more FireFox Add-ons today that I like so far:

Foxmarks stores your bookmarks on a central server, and automatically synchronizes them. Great way to have one set of bookmarks between home & work.

PermaTabs let's you mark tabs parmanent, so they don't get closed and always stay on the tab bar. I'm currently using this for my iGoogle page.

Tabbrowser Preferences is total vital to me. I really like having addresses I type into the address bar or search bar show up in a new tab, and this addon makes it happen. Among a bunch of other tab-related things (like putting the tabs on the bottom of the browser).

Firefox & ScribeFire

I recently switched from Avant Browser to Firefox as my fulltime web browser. Good choice, firefox is great. Right now I'm testing out the ScribeFire addon which promises to make blogging easier. We'll see if it has any impact on my blogging rate. ;)

Powered by ScribeFire.

ROFL: the line above this one, "Powered by ScribeFire" was automatically inserted by ScribeFire. If I can't figure out a way to turn that off, it's gone.

Weigh-In 10/3/07

Weight: 244.2
Week Change: +0.4
Total Change: -64.8

Well, it was bound to happen eventually. I went up a bit. Guess maybe I better start counting points again. :)