Archive for 'My Journey'
The Secret of Weight Loss
This week I inadvertently discovered the secret of weight loss. My coach, Susan, and I had a harrowing session on Wednesday. She was smashing her head on the table at the Second Cup so hard that I’m sure she had nasty bruise on her forehead by the time she got home. You see, for a [...]
Full StoryOff to Boot Camp
Do you ever wish that sometimes you just didn’t open your big, fat mouth? Hand raising here. During my last coaching session with Susan she challenged me to ramp things up a bit. She said I was doing well with my morning walks, but encouraged me to find some hills to get my heart rate [...]
Full StoryMade It Through the Weekend
Weekends are traditionally hard for me. I start off great on Monday, but by Wednesday I’m losing momentum, by Friday things are pretty slippery, and by Sunday it’s a total wash. So in my Wednesday coaching session, Susan and I laid some plans to get me through the weekend. I agreed to go for morning [...]
Full StoryFantastic Friday
This has been an awesome week and standing on the cusp of this big Gay Pride weekend, I really feel like a changed man. I’m big on symbolism. I love it when the world conspires to heighten my life’s meaning. It’s the stuff that let’s me know that I ‘m on the right track. And [...]
Full StorySnarling at God
I had a lovely surprised on Monday: a visit from my friend Carol, who I wasn’t expecting to see in this part of the world. Carol teaches school in Russia, so I only get to see her a couple of times a year, and we had a good visit over lunch at my place. Carol [...]
Full StoryLove is in the Air
It’s the start of Gay Pride week here in Toronto and there’s a spring in everyone’s step. Unfortunately, the City of Toronto workers have walked off the job. They want more job security, like having ten men standing around a hole watching that eleventh man dig isn’t enough, or the 18 paid sick days they [...]
Full StoryYes, I Can Have a Do Over!
I’ve been stuck for a while. The stuff I was doing – or not doing – wasn’t working. When I last blogged, a couple of weeks ago, I decided to create a new goal for myself – to lose 30 pounds by my birthday in September – in the hope that a more manageable short-term [...]
Full StoryDay 36 - Can I Have a Do Over?
My friend M. and I were talking about our weight loss journeys and she was telling me how she has re-evaluated her program and designed a new goal: She wants to lose 20 pounds by the time she goes on summer vacation. (I think that was it.) And I thought it was a great idea. [...]
Full StoryDay 24 - My Man Boobs are Getting Perky
I haven’t weighed myself since day five when I posted “No More Bathroom Scales.” And honestly, it hasn’t been that hard. Although I have to admit that this morning, when I got out of the shower, I looked under the bathroom sink for the scales. It was a momentary slip, but in the end, I’m [...]
Full StoryDay 20 - I Hate You Jillian Michaels
I don’t normally work out on weekends; in fact, weekends are usually when I let everything slide. This weekend I want to break this pattern. Instead of having three big breakfasts at the greasy spoon at the corner, and instead of letting my eating slide and not working out at all, I’m trying something different. [...]
Full StoryDay 11 - Importance of Eating Breakfast
I’m finding my groove this week and I think I owe it all to eating breakfast. I’ve never been a big breakfast eater, not as an adult anyway. As children, my brothers and I ate piles of Cocoa Puffs, Captain Crunch, and Booberry — remember how Booberry turned your milk blue and Frankenberry made it [...]
Full StoryDay 17 - I Can!
I started feeling a change in my attitude yesterday from I can’t to I can and I will! I was watching The Biggest Loser finale last night, and in the opening montage, they showed all the contestants at the beginning of the season; there was a parade of I can’ts. I can’t lose weight, I [...]
Full StoryDay 16 - It’s Grandma Day!
I love May; next to September, it’s my favourite month. May is the month in which my maternal grandmother, was both born and died. Her name was Marie, Yvonne, Emelia, Andre Lamarre. A few years ago (exactly how many I’m unsure, but maybe as many as eight) my partner, Ted, was walking home from a [...]
Full StoryDay 15 - What Am I Doing?
I’m getting rather pissed with myself. Here it is, day 15, and I’m still farting around. I can’t seem to find a groove with this weight loss program — or won’t! I’m stuck in this pattern where I’m running a fairly decent program Monday through Thursday, but then come Friday everything starts to slide because [...]
Full StoryDay 5 - No More Bathroom Scales
I have put away my bathroom scales. Well, my partner, Ted, has put them away. If I “hid” them, I’d just drag them out at the first inkling that I wanted to weigh myself, which is right now actually. Let me tell you what happened. On Friday I weighed myself for my regular weekly weigh-in. [...]
Full StoryDay 5 - In the Public Eye
It’s one thing to decide to lose 100 pounds, it’s quite another to invite the world to watch you. And yesterday was a hard one for me. My partner had e-mailed me photos of myself from the laptop so I could get them up on my blog; and this was the first time I had [...]
Full StoryDay 4 - Workout Buddies
Yesterday I headed off to the gym by myself, my partner still hasn’t fully recovered from his illness. When I arrive in the cardio room, the row of elliptical trainers was nearly empty except for this one big bear of guy that I’ve seen around the neighbourhood. Normally I would have picked a machine at [...]
Full StoryDay 3 - I Want Arms Like That!
Yesterday I talked about much different my workout was from one week to the next. But I’m also noticing a shift in my whole attitude, and not just pertaining to my weight loss project. I’m a really busy guy. I work on the web and at any given time, I have 19 different things happening. [...]
Full StoryDay 2 - What a Difference a Week Makes
What a big difference between this and last week. After my first workout with my trainer, Phil, I was pretty much done in for the rest of the day. And for the two days afterward, I was sore — it even hurt to type, and I’m on a computer all day. My third workout with [...]
Full StoryDay 1 — Did I Really Mean It?
Well after writing that “I’m going to do it” post last night, I was really challenged this morning. Did I really mean it? Was I sure? I had no problem getting up, and then, I hit the computer for a few hours to get some work done. When I tried to wake up my partner [...]
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Welcome to Beating The Bulge. My name is Michael and this is my journey to lose 100 pounds. I hope you'll find something useful here. I would appreciate it if you'd join in the discussion and share your own experience. Teamwork is the best way of achieving a goal! 
