End of week 8

It has been a solid 2 months for me diet wise. I weighed in at 247.7 lb's this morning so this past week I lost 1.8 lb's. Below my weekly goal but still not to bad. So in two months of healthy eating and occasional exercise I lost 29.2 lb's. I cant ever really see myself going back to eating the way I used to eat. When you do something multiple times a day for 2 months it kind of forms a habit.

I mentioned in a comment that I would blog on my degree plans. I am going to study Criminology. My plan is to complete this PhD degree and then ultimately be a professor in college. This is as close to a dream job from me as I can attain, since it doesn't look like a Major League Baseball career is going to work out for me. I have always had great interest in this field. It is really one of the very few subjects I have great interest in. The degree will most likely take around 4 years. I will be diminishing my work schedule a bit while I do this program and we will get by as best we can over the next 4 years.

We have had a good time with Asher visiting us. He really is a well behaved little guy. I fear at times I am to hard on him. I think I am hard on him because I want him to be a good person and since I have some experience with what he possibly could be if he takes after his mother I am doing everything I can think of to prevent certain characteristics.

Ayden is a delight. She is just such a beautiful little girl who loves to smile. Tina thinks she laughed for the first time the other day, but to me it sounded to me more like a cough laugh. She is 3 months old today.

Tina and Asher and I went fishing at a private pond this past weekend. I wanted to take them to a place where I was fairly certain we would all catch some fish. Well that didn't work out. Asher and Tina got several bites but never got one in the boat. I was able to get and keep one on the hook but it was embarrassing how small it was. It was probably about a 4 ounce fish. We also went to a little animal museum this past weekend. We got to see alot of snakes and some spiders. Asher seemed to enjoy it.

I will finish Harry Potter today, I stayed up till 2:30am trying to get as close to finished as I could. I will try to get the pictures up this evening. After watching Karate Kid 2 last night Asher is excited to see one, so I have to try and find that. For those of you who dint know Asher does Tai Kwon Do. I need a vacation.

End of week 7

It was a pretty tiring week. I am not sure why. My weight loss continues. This blog has been the best thing to happen to my health so far. It provides a way for some accountability of my health. I weighed in this morning at 249.2 lb's. That equals a 5.2 lb weight loss this past week. So after 7 complete weeks of eating healthy and occasionally working out I have lost 27.4 lb's. Not to bad. I am still on my goal of loosing 3 lb's a week. So needless to say I was pleased. I am accustomed to eating to way I eat now. It doesn't seem like a diet anymore. It is just how I eat.

In other news Tina and I went on another date this past weekend. This time we went and saw "I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry". It was pretty good, probably not quite as good as I hoped it would be but we liked it. Sure you have to endure many, many, innuendo's and a lot of straight forward raunchiness but Sandler generally has a way to end with a positive message in his movies. I love Kevin James. For a while I think I was trying to be him. I am big like him, I love to eat. He worked for IPS on his show "The King of Queens", I worked for UPS. He was a sports fan and I am a sports fan. He had a hot wife and I have a hot wife. His wife in real life is of Asian decent mine is of German decent. You see the similarities are scary.... Anyway if you can handle Sandler's humor you will probably like this movie. Meanwhile I purchased the new Harry Potter book and have been trying to read it as quickly as I can. I am not disclosing any information on the book as of yet. I will give a full book report on it in a couple of weeks.



Ayden and Asher are doing well. Asher made a friend at church that is coming over to play today. I am glad he is going to have a friend to play with. Ayden is doing good as always. We loaded about 20 pictures yesterday up on the photo album. We have some of her in baby sunglasses, they are pretty cool. We took Ayden swimming the other day, but we couldn't find a hat for her head, so I told Tina to just gob sunblock on her head. She did that and all was well. Except now we are having trouble getting the sunblock of her head. We have tried wiping it of, we have tried giving her a bath with soap and it still doesn't come of. She looks like the baby of that boy "Powder" from the movie. I am going to be going fishing in Wyoming about a month from now. I am so looking forward to that. I have very much missed the mountains and good fishing. Tina and I have spent hours fishing at various lakes in Texas only to catch nothing. I am excited to actually catch fish.

Thanks for taking the poll. It looks like most of you see in some type of teaching capacity either as a high school teacher and a coach or as a professor. That is cool because I am going to do just that. I am not going to coach, at least not for pay. I am sure at some point I will coach little league but I am not going to coach for a living. I am going to teach but not in high school. I have been accepted into a PhD program that starts in about 3 weeks. I am excited about it, it is one of the few subjects I have ever had interest in. All other majors or subjects I have pursued in the past have been monetary based. This is not monetary based. Sure I hope to make a good living at some point, but I have legitimate interest in the field. Peace out. Sorry I didn't get the pictures up last week. I will get some out there tonight of me. You should start to see a difference in me now.

End of week 6

Well today marks the longest I have ever been able to stay on an organized diet ever. I am still having no trouble. I am kind of getting used to the foods I eat. My weight this morning was 254.4 lb's. Which equates to a weight loss of 2.2 lb's this past week. Not to bad, a little below the average weekly goal I am shooting for but not bad. That brings my overall weight loss to 22.2 lb's so far in 6 weeks. Which is still an average of 3.7 lb's a week, so in total I am hitting my weekly goal. I got to do a little exercise but not to much. I am hoping to hit the exercise trail much more this week. It is weird because yesterday morning I stepped on the scale and I weighed 251.4 lb's. So I am not sure what happened in one day. I always weigh myself on the same scale at pretty much the same time every day. I think I weighed in a little higher this morning because I ate a large dinner last night and it hasn't had sufficient time to work its way through me if you know what i mean.

We are all doing well. Asher is having a good time swimming and playing with the dog and everyone. Ayden is doing great. She is smiling often now and I think will soon be laughing as well. Tina is just doing her mom thing and doing it very well. She is a great mother and we are all lucky to have her.

In other news, Tina and I went on a date on Saturday night. I treated her to the new Harry Potter movie which was good, followed by the 2 star cuisine that is Subway. We took our Subway sandwiches and parked at a place with a great view were we could eat them. The view was a straight on view of one of the elementary schools in McKinney. It was special. The movie was good. I am pumped about the final book coming out this weekend. I already have my copy on reserve. I will be giving a full book report after I finish it which shouldn't be to long after I purchase it.

I think I am going to put another poll on this blog. I believe now I can have an actual poll though through this site. The poll is about how others see me as far as profession is concerned. I see myself in a specific way but I would like to see how others see me as it relates to occupation. You know there are some people who you look at and say, "he looks like a dentist" or "he is a typical accountant". What do you look at me and think? The poll is on the right hand side of the page. If you dont see me as any of the occupations above then feel free to do a write in vote by clicking the comments link below this posting. I am interested in seeing the results. Take care. The pictures will be coming tonight and there are some new pictures of Ayden in the photo album in baby sunglasses.

End of week 5

Some things are a mystery to me. For example why do pet owners with miniature poodles name their dogs "killer" or "fang"? Why do guys who become gay suddenly start talking with a lisp? Why did Julia Roberts marry Lyle Lofitz? Why was it called the black plague when not one black person died from it? (Editorial note: I made this last one up, it made for a better blog.) Why sometimes when a team looses their best player do they suddenly become a better team? Why can our bodies repair certain tissue/organs via cellular mitosis but then not repair other vital tissue/organs such as the heart? Why is Rosie O'Donnell famous? Why would anyone like the movie Pulp Fiction? And finally why did I GAIN 4 ounces this week. These things are unexplained to me. I ate fine, I had some activity. I would like to play the "gained some muscle this week" card but I didn't really do anything. I weighed in this morning at 256.6 lb's. I am assuming it is a plateau or sorts. I will push through it. In the past I have thrown up my hands when this happened and gone back to my old ways. Not this time. I will push through it and keep going.

In other news, Ayden and Asher and Tina are doing well. We had the rain stop long enough for Asher and I to go for a swim. He has been working on his math problems. He was awarded in school the award of Math Fact Champion for addition. He does pretty well with his addition. I have been teaching him some tricks for addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. He had a good time at church yesterday. At first he didnt want to go into his class so I had to sit with him for a while. But he warmed up and eventually started playing with a gal. Thata boy!

Ayden is doing well. She is about to undergo some shots. Hopefully those will go well and have no effect on her. Tina is doing well, she has got this whole mother thing down. She still questions her mothering ability at times but she really is great at it.

I saw Transformers last week. It was good. It was cool to be taken back 20 years to the days when I watched the cartoon every day and had a lot of the toys. Best movie I have seen this year. Hopefully Harry Potter will have something to say about that this week. I am excited for the book. I have it reserved. Oh and I have gotten some feedback on some different ways I could take pictures to show my weight progress. So in addition to the pictures I currently take, I am going to take a picture of me in some jeans. At first these jeans are going to be like spandex on me, but over time they will fit and most likely be to big for me. At least that is the goal. Peace. The pictures will be coming later tonight.

End of week 4

Well, so far the short term goals I set out to accomplish every week have been reached. I started this whole healthy thing 4 weeks ago to the day. This morning I weighed in at 256.2 lb's. So I lost exactly 3 lb's this week and a total loss of 20.4 lb's in 4 weeks. Not to bad. I am feeling good, the clothes are getting looser and I am getting more energy I think.



Asher arrived at the airport on Friday evening. He had a nice flight and said everyone treated him nicely. He looks like he has grown a foot since we last saw him in December. He is as skinny as a preying mantis. As my father in law likes to say "he could walk through a picket fence sideways." Asher and I had a hellacious dual of super soakers yesterday. He got 2 super soakers for his birthday. One of them was advertised as the ice blast. The idea is to fill up the container with ice, then water, then unload on your enemy. Now not only can you shoot a steady stream but there is this other soaker blast you can do which will shoot a ton of water in one shot. It would be equivalent to taking a pitcher and slinging it at your opponent. It was a good time. Needless to say, I dominated.



We are doing well. Ayden is growing and is 2 months old today. She is smiling and is so very beautiful. I thank her mom for that. She is a joy and is sleeping most of the night now which has been a blessing.

Due to my exercise the previous week I had to go to the doctor due to my knee popping every step I took. I was diagnosed with patella bursitis which is not really that big of a deal just an overuse injury. Also I had some ankle problem, but am not sure what the problem with that is. I get some blood work done later this week and then next week I will be violated by my doctor. I have to have a physical performed and as a precautionary measure I have to have the finger test to check for cancer. Not looking forward to that one. For those of you men laughing right now, just wait, your time is fast approaching. To you women reading this, you guys have been through much worse. Anyway enjoy the pictures, as always there are new Ayden pictures and some Asher pictures updated today. Take care.