It’s Been Awhile …

… but I’m still here. And actually, even though I haven’t been blogging a lot, I’m still faithfully working out and sweating my you-know-what off. In fact, I did 45 minutes of a hard workout just a little while ago.

Also, I’m still Smart For Lifeing, although highly modified so that I can work out hard (800 calories a day while working out just doesn’t cut it), and still Eat Stop Eating two days a week — in fact, I’m in the middle of an ESE interval as we speak. And toss a little Thintuition in, and I’m a happy boy.

I’ll post a more-complete report on my progress probably later Monday or Tuesday. Overall, I’m at 250 lbs., a 75 lb. loss from where I started last December 10th. Wow. What’s more, my fat % has been decreasing big-time ever since I’ve started exercising hard again. I’m back into what I considered to be my “skinny” size 40 pants — in other words, size 40 pants that I wonder if they’re 38s or not.

My scale weight hasn’t been dropping all that much in the past few weeks, but my measurements certainly have. I don’t need to see the scale weight drop as much as I thought I would, actually. My clothes and how I look are actually more important to me right now. The clothes look good. And from what I hear, I look much better than I have in years.

When I made the decision to start losing last December, I was in size 48s. Forty-frickin-eights! Man, I can’t believe it. It’s all really good, though, and I’ve been doing well.

And a quick follow up to my Well, Damn post: I’m going into the doctor’s next Monday to see how bad the cutting is going to be on my back. Even though I’m determined not to let this throw me off schedule, I am disappointed that I will very likely have to cut back on my exercising for awhile. I made a promise to myself, though, that I will get right back on the proverbial horse as soon as I can. Plus, I at least can walk and maybe even do cardio on the elliptical (probably as long as I don’t use the arm swingy thingies).

I’ll probably update next after my doctor’s appointment. Ciao for now.