yakface speaketh!

For those who see me on a regular basis, much of this blog will likely be old news. In fact, if I were them I’d be downright sick of hearing about it. Those around me probably haven’t even noticed that I purposely haven’t said anything about it in a blog until this point. But I’ve done so on purpose.

That’s all going to end right now because I want to talk about what happened to me today, and I can’t do so without bringing it up. So let’s welcome the elephant into the room.

I’ve lost just about 50 lbs in the last 6-7 months. I did so by following the Weight Watchers program and regular exercise. This is the second time I’ve lost a considerable amount of weight in my life (the first time was the end of college), but this time is different for a number of reasons:

1) I’ve gotten to a lower weight than I did last time, and I’m still going.

2) I actually followed the Weight Watchers program this time instead of reading the material and then starving myself.

3) I realize now it is something I can’t just "get off of" once I reach a certain weight. I am committed to eating this way for the rest of my life. Seriously.

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So why do I not want to talk about it? Mainly because I don’t think it’s a big deal. It’s kind of like when people cheer or applaud someone who’s had a baby. I don’t get that. They’ve just performed a basic function of human existence, so why is that an accomplishment? In a similar vein I think eating right and staying in shape is a basic thing that most people can and should do. So for me to finally get back off my ass and lose the weight I need to lose to live a long and healthy life isn’t really an accomplishment, its more like: "It’s about damn time."

Just for fun here’s a little pictorial collage of me in the last 12 months.

April 2005 (my sister Suzie and I at Hollywood and Highland):

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May 2005 (my parents and I at a Giants game in SF on my birthday):

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October 2005 (about 2 months in/20 pounds lighter; Kelly and I at Halloween):

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December 2005 (about 30 pounds lost; Christmas in Florida):

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February 2006 (about 45 pounds lost; the most recent picture I can find; Jung, Matthew and I at a bar):

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Now that is in the open, I can discuss what happened to me today. I went to get my suits tailored (since I lost all this weight), and the one I bought in OCTOBER for Halloween (even after I lost 20 pounds) is apparently too big to be tailored! Yeah it’s the one pictured above.

Gah. And that’s the suit I said: "the hell with it", and got the expensive (for me) $350 one.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. You see when I bought the suit, I was still afraid to get a suit that fit me perfectly in case I gained any weight. So I got the next size up and had them fit it down to my size. Now that decision has come and bit me in the ass.

But I have to bite the bullet and go buy a new suit, cause I really like having a black suit (and that was the only one I had).

Live and learn, I suppose. I got to use the suit a couple times (Halloween and going to Club 33), but now it’s getting retired into the closet under the dark presumption that I might again someday gain a bunch of weight.

As if to alleviate my pains about blowing $350, I got a letter from the IRS today telling me that (even though I used a professional tax preparer) that my refund is apparently $3k short. So I’m gonna get a whole lot more back than I thought.

Very nice. At the end of the day, I’m left feeling pretty good about it all.

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