Slimdude

I’m a person who gets up pretty early in the morning. For many many years 4am-5am is my wake up time. It has worked out very well for me because the Military often calls on you to keep those early hours, no matter what your job is. I’m not one of those “Roll out of bed at noon” people. Still…

I admit there are many many mornings when I look at my watch or hear my alarm and I cannot believe it is already 4am. I just really want to roll back over and get some more rest. And to be honest, every once in a while I do. But that’s mostly reserved for Sundays. I usually try to motivate myself and get out of bed. It’s gotten even worse this past year after all my pain issues developed.

Oh, that stuff. It is really kind of funny in a way because I believe probably every person on earth has to deal with SOME KIND of issue or another. Maybe you are like Ash and you struggle with your weight and your wife has MS. Or maybe you have cancer or maybe you take care of someone with cancer. Maybe you have one leg or glaucoma. Who knows? I guess my lot in life was to have arthritis that affects my neck and back and shoulders and feet… so far. But the drugs help a bit. And so does moderate exercise once I get going.

I tell myself “I am Rocky Balboa!” even though I’m not, I still kind of hum that Survivor tune, “Eye of the Tiger”… lately I’ve been very into the dancey hip hop music they play on the radio, like P.Diddy’s “Last Nite”, Timbaland’s “The Way I Are” and Kanye West’s “Stronger”.

I am really struggling with the eating at night thing, folks… and to be completely honest, I don’t think I’ve had one night YET in MONTHS when I have not at least nibbled on something if not outright gorged. But I’m hoping I can start “fresh” today, eat right and exercise… if I put in two good days then when we do our weigh-in on Sat I might be 159.

I’d like to lose an average of two pounds per week and this would put me right on-time to be 140 by Nov 3rd. If I lose a little more on some weeks, then great. But I’m only going to look for a loss of two pounds average.

In other news… I saw SuperBad yesterday and it is SuperFunny but be forewarned : there is mucho mucho cussing and vulgarities so if you are the type that is easily offended, skip it.

Also our broker called and everything is good to go with our house! We should be able to close within this next week or so… and then we will start moving in Sept. I am psyched. Our very first home!

—Matt