THE COUNTER
Starting weight (January 4, 2006): 370 pounds
Last weigh-in (March 6, 2008): 269.8
Total pounds lost: 100.2
Pounds until 240: 29.8
It’s hard to figure out how to begin this post.
Do I go back to the first step in the road on Jan. 4, 2006 when I began the 100 Days quest? Do I got back even further to that night in Dec. 2005 when I lay in bed at 2 a.m. thinking how grotesquely oversized my body had become?
That night I made a decision to lose weight. That night will go down as one of the most important of my life. I could start there.
But do I go back to the slow evolution in Colorado, where I went from merely obese at 325 pounds to impending heart attack fat at 370? Or do I go back to life as a kid in Detroit, when I started eating more than any 5-year old should?
Maybe I go back only a week, when I crept back up to 275 and began my “Assault on 270.”
Maybe I shouldn’t go back at all. Maybe I should just continue working toward the future, when all this will settle in behind me and my transformation will be complete.
If this sounds like a self-congratulatory, ego-filled rant, well, I guess it kinda is.
But I don’t mind congratulating myself today, because I saw the number 269.8 on Thursday. Sorry, but I couldn’t help but celebrate the loss of 100 pounds.
Yep, I made it. Yep, I’m proud. Please let me gloat, let me have this so I can figure out a way to frame it and put it on the wall in my room. Let me take this day and consider it one of my finest, the day that I hit a milestone I’ve pined after for more than two years; a milestone I all but abandoned on my first try.
It started with the idea of 100 pounds in 100 days. Ok, so that theory was proven wrong. But you gotta admit, 100 pounds in a very roundabout 796 days ain’t so bad now, is it? Plus, if the theory was 100 pounds in 800 days, I would still have four to spare.
Article comments
1 - zingzing
show us the damn pictures, or i'll send you a cheesecake.
2 - Dan Nied
I would show you pictures but I am not very smart and haven't figured out how to post photos on BC. However, I can get on that. Also, I've comissioned a photographer (ok, asked one of our photgs from work) to take a few shots of me now specifically for posting on this blog.
So yeah, I suck when it comes to photos. But I am working to rectify that. By the way, I'll gladly accept your ceesecake.
3 - zingzing
what ceesecake? i have no ceesecake! (ok, i will send you an imaginary object. so i don't even need your address!)
and i also remember you posting photos to your last blog... or maybe it was wherever your url leads. yeah, cuz i seen fotos of u b4. somewhere. i think. now i doubt myself.
4 - Dan Nied
Oh there were photos. I am actually very attractive in person. However, I've kept them away for the first half of this. Once I figure a few things out, you won't be able to pry the image of my out of your head.
5 - Gigi
Been reading you from the very start on the old site. Happened you were doing the 100 day thing just when I was too (lost my 40 pounds as well_ : ). I have kept up with you ever since. It is awesome you hit this milestone-can't wait to read the post you have hit 240! Gigi
( Trust me life at your goal weight ROCKS in many ways)
6 - Gigi
PS
Dan is a looker-I saw the pictures on the last site : )
7 - Kevin
I can attest to Dan being a 'looker', as I've known him for years. This gentle self-effacing business works...
CONGRATS DAN on hitting this massive goal. I know it's been a constant on your mind for years now. I'm highly impressed that you care about yourself enough to continue on this mission. I'll be there every step of the way, my man.
8 - Alexandria
So happy for you, your dedication, your goal attainment and your attitude.
9 - Guy
Best post yet. Congratulations all the way.