It's me again! I've changed jobs, coped with all the nonsense that entails, and went on a cruise. As you can imagine, my body is not happy with me at this point. I slid back from the solid 300 lbs I enjoyed reaching to a tentative weight of 340 lbs. I say tentative because I weighed right after returning from the cruise and we're thinking there's some water weight to be lost first. More on this soon.

I hit the gym this morning for a half hour and I can feel it. I haven't quite started at square one, but I'm darn close. Staying on the treadmill at a decent speed is difficult and my muscles have mostly atrophied from the stud-muffin size they were when I was going 5-days a week.

The new job entails 50% travel, so eating well and not overeating is a constant challenge. It's one I'm excited to take on! Who's with me?!

I'm back to the usual flow. The last two weeks, in the gym at 4am.

Happy New Years folks! Here's to kicking ass in '07.

After yet another brief hiatus I'm back and kicking. I did 6 miles even on the bike tonight.

Another 45 minutes on the elliptical tonight. I'm doing good with getting into the gym at least once a day either in the morning or evening. The time really flies if I've got a podcast to listen to and focus on while I'm doing it. Keith and The Girl works nicely because it's 45m to an hour.

This morning I started my new routine. Thanks again to Nick for helping me get it all organized. I did 45 minutes on the elliptical this morning and I'll be headed back this afternoon for some weights.

I was in California for the Portable Media Expo so my data is falling behind a bit. I'm going to throw information in for today and then we should be back on track.

So I'm back to where I started. The difference is that I can ride my bike over 11 miles in a single run and I'm able to hang on the elliptical longer. Something must have changed.

Tonight we took our friend out for their respective birthdays. There was much drinking but I tried to limit my intake to tequila, vodka (no sugar!), and some Michelob ultras. There was pool and even a little DDR if you can believe it!

WOOT!

The biking has really helped strengthen my legs and build my endurance. Tonight I hit up the gym for a little chest exercise and rounded it out with 20 minutes on the elliptical. I sat at my target heart rate for the entire time -- kick ass!

In my defense, I would have gone longer but I'd also done about 45 minutes of DDR this afternoon as well.

Thanks Kelley!!

That's right boys and girls, no exercise for me yesterday. Life happened and I had to resign myself to not getting any in. Today I'm going to either hit up the DDR or do a little wet biking. It just started raining her so I've got to decide how I'm going to change up my workouts.

Running is tempting.

Today I up'd my calories. It worked before to get me out of a rut so we'll see where we're at by Friday.

Tonight my wife and I decided to take a walk. When we left the sun was out and I was sporting my shades. By the time we got back to the house it was dark. I think once you deduct the time at Starbucks sipping on bottled water and waiting for my smoothie it was probably 45 minutes total.

I'm still rocking the bike riding. I picked up a video iPod and am enjoying it quite a bit. Today I'm going to see if I can run a full 10 miles (this time on purpose).

I kicked up the difficulty on DDR to 'difficult'. I'm hitting the songs that are 4-5 feet and it's some non-stop craziness. This time I picked up a 1.5 litre bottled water at the corner store before I went. It cost me less than 2 bucks and the ones Big Al's sells are 2 bucks and some change for a dinky size. Frugality for the win!

I biked 4 miles with Rob out by the Lacamas lake before he picked up his daughter from cross-country practice. Then, I went back out and played DDR *hard* for 2 hours (probably 1h 45m after breaks when I had to start sharing the machine).

Again I headed to the bowling alley for some DDR love. Kimie came by with the family and shot a few pictures, so I bring you... ME ON DDR!

Today I rode a touch under 10 miles. Tonight my wife and I hit up the new bowling alley and I played DDR for about an hour. My legs are begging for sleep, but I feel darn good.

One kid who was playing there in between my turns on it tapped me on the arm as I was leaving and told me I did really good. I think my head inflated instantly.

Day 2 of the fight. I had lunch with a co-worker which wasn't in the plans, but I chose my food sensibly: a roasted chicken salad with honey mustard dressing. I still have my SmartOnes meal that was intended to be my midday meal in the fridge. I'll have that in a little while.

The ride home from work is hard.

I'm tired of the 300-310 yo-yo action. Today it stops. I weighed in at 300 lbs this morning for the last time. Next week it's going to be under 300. Mark my words.