Slimdude

So fellow BuddySlimmers, I come to you with a surprisingly optimistic attitude and goals and ideas this Sunday morning.

I did NOT in fact, resist tempations this weekend. I tried valiantly. I made it until about midnight and then I had a veritable feast with all the goodies in the house.

So my “official” weigh-in this morning put me back at 153 pounds and I updated my weight tracker accordingly.

Now, you’d think that would put me in a miserable mood, right?! Well… you would be wrong! Those days of beating myself up are long gone.

Instead, I realized that most of that weight is “stuff in the tummy” weight, anyway, and I really weigh more like 150 still. And I started this whole BS thing at 163 pounds so I’m still rocking on!

Nevertheless, I am not where I want to be yet. I’d much rather be swaying a few pounds around 140 than 150. So I’ve decided to initiate

“The LAST 15 Pounds!” challenge to myself. I know, I know… I’m always setting these goals and time-lines and trying to get these last few vanity pounds off and trying to stop binge eating and what-not. But slowly but surely I am getting there, okay?

Anyway. I’m setting my sights for FIVE WEEKS. So my new “goal weight” date is December 2nd and I have the same “over-all” goal of buying myself a Nintendo Wii if I make it.

In fact, I’m going to give myself a small reward every week that I make my goal weight. This first week I want to lose 3 pounds… putting me at 150 by next Sunday. I will NOT step on that scale until next Sunday morning.  If I get my weight goal, I will buy a new music album… probably Britney Spears’ new one.

Then for the next four weeks, I’ll adjust my goal weights to probably 2.5 pounds per week. It’s a little aggressive, and mathematically it means a calorie defecit of a little more than 10,000 calories per week. But I can do it. I’m going to work hard but treat myself right and get this “Final 13″ pounds of vanity weight off and have my flat belly back.

Five weeks!

I wrote down all my planned workouts this week. It’s a lot of Gazelle-ing and walking and then three circuit weight / resistance routines. I always put those off. You know. Push-Ups and Sit-Ups and Crunches and Biceps Curls. All that. But I swear I’m going to do it three times this week no matter how much of a struggle it is.

Because if  don’t do the resistance part, I’m just gonna end up looking like those “skinny fat guys” … well, I guess I kind of already do, and that’s the problem. Not enough weight training.

Okay. Anybody else out there wanna hunker down with me and lose that last little bit? That Last 15?

—Matt