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DAY SEVENTY-TWO: (R)October Break

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Saturday, 4 October 2014. First day of Fall intersession break from work.

Weight: 200.0 pounds

Credit Card Debt: $21,835.00

What can I do this week to address these concerns?

First step… well, okay, second step. The first step was to pay my credit card accounts that were due – mostly the minimum payment, o’ course. The second step is to get out for a long walk. My distance goal is 10 miles today. I’m going to try to hike up Long Road aka Mokuleia Access Road. Long Road is part of the Peacock 100 trail run route. I was hoping to participate in the Peacock 100 this year. Instead, I got lazy, stopped running, and gained back 40 of the 35 pounds I lost last year.

Exactly one year and one day ago, 3 October 2013, I was at my lowest weight in years, 11 stone 7 pounds, or 161 pounds. Then, on Friday 4 October I set out on a week-long road trip through Colorado and New Mexico with my friend Roger. I set my diet and exercise plan aside and lost all momentum. I only gained a pound while on the trip, but that was in contrast to the two or three pounds a week I had been consistently losing since the previous mid-June. A week after my return I had gained four more pounds. I made a couple of half-hearted efforts to get back on track between November and January, but it didn’t happen. By the end of January I was up to 12-1/2 stone, and here I am today with the morning scale reading exactly 200 pounds, or 14 stone 4 pounds.

My credit cards are all maxxed out. I have three dollars remaining in my bank account. I weigh 200 pounds (BMI: 27.9 ). I’m fat and broke. What a way to start a vacation.

I’m gonna go fill up a water bottle and hit the pavement now.

DAY SIXTY-NINE: Weary Wednesday

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Mid-week and I’m already feeling wiped out. Three days of “Response to Intervention” workshops at work are finally done. Two more full days until October intersession break. I probably won’t get anything accomplished until then. Wife has relatives visiting from today through next Wednesday, so I might not get anything accomplished during break, either.

What is it that I think I need to do? I made a list over the course of the last three days. If I had the energy, enthusiasm, or time I’d post it. But I don’t.

DAY SIXTY-SIX: No Progress… Or Maybe a Little

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Today I had planned to work on my stuff, but I ended up cleaning and sorting other people’s stuff. My spouse volunteered to clean up a rental house for some relatives who were moving out. “We only left a few things,” they said.

Yeah, right. We spent all day over there, and we’re not finished yet.

On the bright side, they left about twenty plastic storage bins. At ten to fifteen dollars a pop, that’s worth two hundred dollars or so, money we will not have to spend to pack up our own stuff.

Also, they left two broken computers. I’ve been looking up parts online. Depending on what it will cost me to get a Windows operating system, the Toshiba laptop might be worth fixing, as replacement hard drives are fairly inexpensive for PC-based computers. Of course, I have to find out if the Toshiba will even fire up. “The charger is there with it.” Yeah, right, again. The charger that was with it was for a Canon camera and does not fit the computer. I ordered a replacement charger through Amazon a few minutes ago. It’s worth the fifteen dollar gamble. If the computer powers up, it will probably be worth replacing the defective hard drive… if that’s actually the problem. A new hard drive and updated RAM, plus the charger, will cost only a bit over a hundred dollars. Then I’ll have a short-term replacement computer for when my MacBook Pro finally stops working for good. It will be something to get me through until I can afford a new Mac… I have my eyes set on a desktop system this time… altho’ optimally with something like a small MacBook Air or Pro or maybe just an iPad for mobile purposes.

Anyway, the weekend is over and my house is more full than it was at the beginning, with twenty empty plastic storage bins and some broken computer parts now cluttering up the space… in addition to the pre-existing clutter.

DAY SIXTY-FIVE: Sorrowful Saturday

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I find myself overwhelmed by waves of despair and a sense of futility as I try to sort through all my junk. Hours of effort today with no visible result, other than more clutter and confusion and chaos.

I’m feeling fat and tired and old.

Walked 10 kilometers today. Saw several cars parked where the local ultra-runners gather to practice on “Long Road,” the route of the Peacock 100 race that’s coming up next month. Seeing stickers on the cars promoting various 100k and even a 1000k stage race and slogans like “Sea Level is for Sissies” left me feeling ever fatter and older and more tired as I waddled along at a slow walking pace.

My work trousers barely fit around the waistline.

DAY SIXTY-THREE: 198.6

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Thursday. Weekly weigh-in day. 198.6 pounds. That’s, like, almost two pounds heavier than last week. Yay, me.

What am I gonna do about it? Last night on the way home from work I stopped at the grocery store and stocked up on two liter bottles of sparkling water. At the present time I feel I need cola beverages to keep me going through the work day, but I am going to gradually decrease my soda intake by first phasing out drinking soda at home. Last night I was successful – no Coca Cola with supper!

Yesterday after work, even though I got home later than expected, I laced up my running shoes and… okay, I didn’t run, I walked five kilometers, or about three miles. I felt pathetic walking rather than jogging or running, but… I’m fat, and I can feel it. I have determined that I will walk at least five kilometers daily for the next week, and I will only walk for at least a week before I attempt running. I can feel how out of shape I have become. Thus far I have avoided injury when running, and I hope to keep it that way.