Weight update
As early readers of my blog may recall, I made a wager back in January-ish. You can read about it here. Anyway, I’m behind schedule, although I remain confident that I can pull off the win. It’s been 3 months and I’ve dropped from 239 to 226, meaning I’ve lost less than half of the weight needed to win the bet. I have between another two to three months to get down to the required weight of 210 lbs (if you read the entry, the exact timing of the weigh-in is up to me, it just has to be during the WSOP events, with the last possible day being the start of the main event). So, it’s been more than half the time, I’ve lost less than half of the weight and the last 5-8 pounds will be the hardest. Why am I confident? A few reasons.
First, I really haven’t been trying my hardest just because of the length of this bet. I usually eat relatively healthy, but I have occasional meals where I just eat whatever… and that has definitely hurt me thus far. As I’m coming down to the wire here to lose these pounds safely, I’ll pick up the pace just due to my competitive spirit. I don’t like to lose.
Second, it has finally gotten nice here in Philadelphia the last few weeks. For the first few months, I was relegated to using a stationary bike at my local gym for my aerobic exercise as, for some reason, I can’t balance very well on a treadmill. I’ve been making a lot of progress now that I can run outdoors. Running is much better for general exercise and weight loss (for me at least), so I expect to see significantly greater gains from running as opposed to cycling. I will also continue to bike at the gym.
Finally, I have been spending a lot of time travelling to places like Turning Stone, Ithaca, Foxwoods, etc. I generally eat terrible while on the road and I don’t get much exercise, if any. In between now and the WSOP, I have one trip planned: Turning Stone in mid-late May. I will eat better there this time and I’ll make an attempt to get some exercise. Other than that, I will be holed up at the gym in Philly.
So the bottom line is that it will be close. I only have $1500 on the bet (spread out among a few people), so it’s not primarily the $ that are driving me to win. It’s more that I want to get in better shape and I’m just very competitive. If I get to 212 or something like that and lose the bet, I’ll be disappointed, but I’ll still be very happy to be down in that area. Anyway, I’m still taking update pictures to be posted at the end up the project and I’m going to give the next two-three months my best shot.
Later.
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