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Gone, but not forgotten.

bradtwitty — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:55:03 +0000

This semester of school is turning out to be super busy, but I am working on managing my time better so I may be able to squeeze regular posts back into my schedule. Maybe.

216.4 lbs

bradtwitty — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:06:45 +0000

Empire of the Sun

bradtwitty — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:41:05 +0000

Been listening to alot of interesting music over the past few days and I thought I would share. Walking on a Dream by Empire of the Sun, thanks McKask.

216.8 lbs

bradtwitty — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:31:20 +0000

219.0 lbs

bradtwitty — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:23:28 +0000

My thoughts on summer.

bradtwitty — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:18:21 +0000

For the sake of this post, summer will refer to May, June, July, and August. Over the summer I gained about 30 pounds. That is some amount of weight. Luckily I had lost 60 pounds leading up to May or I would have hit 290 lbs this year. The question that I am now faced with is, “How did I let myself gain this much weight?” It started at the beginning of May, finals time. I decided one night that I was going to buy myself some food that I thought would help me relax while I studied. I bought donuts, chocolate, chips, coke, pizza, and the like. It tasted great. Then on May 5th I went out to eat for my grandmother’s birthday, it tasted great. Then over the summer…

I ate a lot of things that tasted great.

The thing about eating things that taste great is that they also seem to cause one to gain weight. Before long I had gained 5 pounds, which didn’t really seem that bad. I knew that I could lose that again pretty quick, but I didn’t. I kept eating and then one day I weighed 215 lbs, more weight than I could easily lose. Shortly after seeing this weight a friend asked me how much I weighed, I lied. 205 lbs. I had magically just lost 10 lbs, in my mind anyway. After this point I stopped watching my weight, mainly out of denial that I was gaining weight. This denial went on for some amount of time and then came 231.4 lbs, less than two weeks ago.

When I saw that number, 231.4, I hated myself for letting it happen.

I have since put myself back on the diet I had used to drop the initial 60 pounds and I have ever intention to stay on this diet until I step on a scale and see 175 pounds, when I will switch to some sort of weight maintenance plan. I know that if I don’t drop this weight while I am young, I will have an infinitely harder time in my later year. Watch my father struggle with weight has really opened my eyes to the importance of keeping myself at a safe weight. If you know me personally, next time you see me, wish me luck and don’t ask me if I want to get something to eat.

[Ed. Note] – This post marks a change in the time/effort I will be putting into this blog. Hopefully the increase in quality will be appreciated.

221.6 lbs

bradtwitty — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:46:56 +0000

Well, today was an okay day. While I was eating lunch I noticed that the South Beach Diet Turkey Bacon Wraps where pretty high in fat (12g), which I am not cool with. Hopefully the others are not so high in fat, I will need to keep a close eye on this. There are 4 places near my classes where I can go to get something for lunch: Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Chipotle, and Schlotzsky’s.

Foods I can eat for lunch:

Taco Bell – Fresco Stuff http://www.tacobell.com/fresco/

McDonald’s – Asian Grilled Chicken Salad w/ Dressing

– Chicken Nuggests (6) w/ Sweet-n-Sour

From what I can tell that is it. I hope that diet went okay today. I ended up eating a good amount of soup for dinner, probably too much. Actually it was way too much. Also, I ate way too many rye thins and cream cheese. I defenitly ate fewer calories than I burned today, which is a good thing. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day. I think that I need to drink coffee when I get home from work, or something else to hold me over a little longer. Eating early, like I did today, makes me end up eating something more later in the night, which is bad. Really, really bad.

223.6 lbs, but now at night.

bradtwitty — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:11:27 +0000

Went home this weekend and managed to stick to the diet, this is a rarity. Also, Mom made me some really diet friendly chicken and vegetable soup (chicken, green peas, green beans, okra, squash, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, black-eye peas), woot!

223.6 lbs

bradtwitty — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:47:17 +0000

.spoO

bradtwitty — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:05:38 +0000

Today was the total opposite of, “Oops!” I was on diet all day and don’t think that I could have done any better than I did. I probably ate about exactly 1000 calories. Best of all though, 226.6lbs tonight. That is 5 pounds less than what I weighed like 2 days ago at the sametime of the night, whoop! I am not going to think about the fact that I was at this point some time in March, because that won’t really help me out right now. I am giving this thing full force until I get to 175.5 pounds, not matter when that is. If that means no rolls at Thanksgiving and Christmas, then that is just what it means. If that means no birthday chocolate pie, then that is just what it means. This is serious business this time out and that is a promise.