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Weighed in the other morning, but haven't had a chance to come post yet. Bit under the weather to start the week. Feeling a bit better as the week has gone on.

Diet was still ugly, had people over for the Saints game which has been an exciting time for us down here. 1 win away from the first Super Bowl appearance in the history of the city. Also had a few other things to attend so it's been just an ugly diet.

That said I still managed to keep things mostly under control during the week and that got me down another 3lbs and back into the 330's. Upper 330's but still.

Another big Saints game on the horizon likely means another ugly weekend. I expect my diet to improve a good bit once these large temptations are removed (which hopefully won't be until after the Super Bowl).

I've also had a set back in exercise. Both knees are now hurting. One knee is very tight and hurts when I bend it too far, so I've had to keep it limited in movement. The other one is back to locking up a little when used a lot. So it looks like my knees are going to end my exercise again for a bit.

I think the plan at this point has to be to get past all this football, clean up the diet, and get out of the 300's so my knees aren't supporting so much weight each day. All that weight is more wear and tear.

Should be going in for my check up with the doctor in a few weeks as well, so I'll get his opinion on this as well.

For now, it's more of the same. We'll keep moving at this slow and steady pace and hopefully at some point in the coming weeks I'll be able to kick this into a different gear.

Well the good news, lost about 3lbs. This week was very ugly on the diet though and definitely could have been a much larger loss. The wheels came off Thursday as I spent all day sitting in court (most of it just waiting in a room). The aftermath of that was a massive workload thrown on me.

I already have a full time day job, plus some night and weekend help at a 2nd place to help keep them going. So this workload really is going to stretch me thin.

All this left me exhausted many days, I'd do ok with keeping my calories in check for breakfast and lunch, but then dinner would be a blow out. The weekend was mostly ugly as well starting with dinner Saturday and all meals on Sunday.

Still lost a little though, so I'll just keep pushing along. I managed a few more miles last night but not many as I was EXHAUSTED! I did 70 miles last week all total. Not bad for a start, and certainly not bad considering my energy levels.

I'm going to regroup starting with a workout tonight during the Biggest Loser, and just keep pushing forward. Might be a rough month until the work load returns to some level of normalcy. So we'll see what happens.

See you next time.

So a couple weigh in's back I mentioned something about the odd readings I was getting off my scale. I'd get on and off numerous times in a row and have a wild variety of weights appear with an error range of a few pounds.

Well this morning it was even worse. I weighed about 10-12 times and wound up with a low of 335.4 and a high of 341.2. That's almost 5lbs of variation which is just way too much for accurate weight tracking.

I'm quite confused how a scale can jump this much. I tried changing how I stand on the scale, I tried adjusting how it felt like my weight was distributed between my legs to try and make it as balanced as possible, couldn't find any kind of pattern to how I was standing and the numbers appearing on the scale.

Think it's time for a new scale. I'm going to look around and see what's available. Any suggestions?

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Rushed out the house this morning, there was a big wreck on the interstate so I needed to get going to make up for the extra traffic. I did my weigh in, but didn't have time to offload the picture from the camera. So the picture may or may not be up depending on when you're reading this. I'll upload it when I get home later.

This week saw the attempted return of exercise, but was still very limited. Aside from being terribly out of shape, I also was a little sick for a bit of this week and had the stress of going in for a sleep study to check for sleep apnea (and I do in fact have it). This week also saw a black hole of time appear in the form of the following 3 characters. MW2. If you know you know, and if you don't then just take my word for it.

All things considered, this week was ripe for disappointment or weight gain, yet this morning the scale read 335.4lbs making this week a 3lb loss. 22.8lbs lost in 2 months which all things considered is pretty damn good.

Let's break down all the reasons this diet should have or could have failed:

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Big loser it seems.

So here we are at week 6 completed (if you subtract the vacation week). I've still been hampered by a lingering knee problem, and had some issues with a pulled muscle in my back that has taken a while to heal. Yesterday I was feeling stronger, and then I went to weigh in this morning. Let's just skip the banter and get to the results this week.

If you read last week you saw that I was fluctuating between a 1lb gain and 1lb loss so since I couldn't get a steady reading I took the average which was a net zero. Going back to weigh in 4 and the last official weight was 345lbs. That means I lost 6.6lbs since the last weigh in.

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