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4 Pounds One Week; aka 66 pounds in 15 weeks

Ok! I am back on track… I lost 4.1 pounds this week without being able to exercise very much (torn peroneus longus tendon)… I stuck to my diet religiously.
I get to start rehab next week (3 days a week) starting Monday. I am very much looking forward to working out again…
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My Weight Loss Coach Nintendo DS

I have always been a big fan of video games. I don’t play them very often anymore…  if I do I usually stop after no more than a week.  I just have too much to do and too many other things that are more important.  That being said I ran across an advertisement for My Weight [...]

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60 Pounds in 12 weeks… 4.4 Pounds in 2 Weeks

This being the first weigh-in in two weeks I was a little nervous… Especially since we had spent the 4th on a mini vacation Sonomaand I had drank just a little too much wine. In addition there was a celebratory birthday dinner for a family member thrown in after Sonoma. I have continued my regular [...]

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My Biggest Health or Fitness Vice — Portion Control

I was tagged by Deflabbify (great human name for a blog btw) who claims beer as his biggest vice.
My vice is portion control…  I eat/drink too much unless I am paying very close attention…
One of the best things about the diet I am on is that it is teaching me portion control…  Sometimes with better [...]

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No Weigh In This Week — July 4th

This week my normal weigh in day falls on July 4th.  The doctor’s office is closed and therefore I will be going 2 weeks without a weigh in…
For most of the week I was very good…
Thursday we went to Sonoma for the 4th weekend…  Even in Sonoma I have been very good on the food [...]

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55 Pounds in 10 weeks… 2.3 Pounds this Week

In all honesty I had expected to lose just a touch more weight this week.  I was pretty good on the eating front…  I know I didn’t get as much exercise as I had anticipated (there are fires causing very smoky conditions and a health warning all around the San Francisco Bay area right now).  Don’t [...]

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Torn Peroneus Longus Tendon

As previously posted, the initial diagnosis made with MRI imaging was a Ruptured Peroneus Longus Tendon and surgery was scheduled for this Monday…  However, there have been further developments…
At a preop (pre surgery) appointment 10 days ago the doctor felt that my strength and range of motion was not indicative of the complete rupture that was diagnosed [...]

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53 Pounds in 9 weeks… 4.5 Pounds this Week

Wow… back on track!  After 2 weeks of relatively small amounts of weight loss (0.6 pounds and 1.8 pounds) I got back on track with a solid 4.5 pounds this week.  Between my ruptured tendon with the resulting inability to exercise in many of my normal ways and my Dad visiting for Father’s day with [...]

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Father’s Day Edition of Weekly Roundup

I can’t stay and write for long. My wife brought my dad out (from all the way across the country) as a surprise on Friday. We’re having Father’s Day brunch today. What are your plans for Father’s Day? Be sure to tell your Dads how much you love them. Wives too.
This week from the Fitness [...]

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Weight Lost: 48 pounds in 8 weeks… 1.8 Pounds This Week

So I am very pleased with my weight loss this week…  With my ruptured tendon I was unable to exercise much, but I still managed 1.8 pounds of weight loss…  In addition to my ankle, I was finding myself stress eating (the injury and the prospect of surgery was stressing me out), but I was able to [...]

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Ruptured Peroneus Longus Tendon

So as I mentioned in my weigh in post on Tuesday I was playing volleyball at the local community center….
It was a 3 on 3 game and we were receiving.   My teammate passed the ball to the setter and I was backing up to position for the approach for the spike (licking my chops too I [...]

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Weight Lost: 47 pounds in 7 weeks… Under 1 Pound Weight Loss This Week

After 7 weeks on the medically assisted weightless program JumpStart medicine with Dr. Sean Bourke, I have lost 47 pounds in 52 days. This week I lost 0.6 pounds and achieved only 11.1% of my weekly goal.
Here is a graph of my weight loss (if you are reading this in the future this graph will [...]

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Weight Lost: 46 Pounds in 6 Weeks aka Over 7lbs this Week!

After 6 weeks on the medically assisted weightless program JumpStart medicine with Dr. Sean Bourke, I have lost 46 pounds in 45 days (just over a pound a day… Wow!) This week I lost 7.1 pounds and I am ecstatic to have achieved 109.2% of my goal.  I have been feeling great, but the larger dose of Phentermine was caused [...]

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Chromium Picolinate

From the Jumpstart Medicine Handbook…
Chromium Picolinate is the most absorbable form of chromium, a rare mineral often deficient in the American diet.  Research suggest that chromium deficiency may play a role in the onset of diabetes.  Chromium works well with inositol to decrease bad cholesterol (LDL) and increase good cholesterol (HDL).

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39 Pounds in 5 Weeks

After 5 month on the medically assisted weightless program I have lost 39 pounds… This week I lost 5 pounds which is incredible (the results of this diet and program are remarkable and fast.) 5 pounds was 77% of my weekly goal of 6.5 pounds per week. This week even though I lost [...]

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Healthy, Happy, Wealthy, and Wise

I have been tagged by Fat Man Unleashed to write a 6 word memoir. His was Be About It!
My 5 word memoir is Healthy, Happy, Wealthy, and Wise.
At the end of the day, this is how I will remember my life.

Healthy — this one is pretty self explanatory, but it does require work [...]

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Weigh In #4 — One Month and 34 Pounds Lost

After 1 month on the Jumpstart Medicine medically assisted weightless program I have lost 34 pounds… This week I lost 3.5 pounds with was 70% of my weekly goal of 5 pounds per week. I attribute missing the goal to a later than normal and larger than normal (for a 1200 calorie diet) dinner last [...]

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Add Weight Loss and Fitness Bloggers to your Website

Apparently this has ability has been built into wordpress for quite some time but a friend of mine recently pointed up that it can be done (pfblogs popular posts added to sidebar.)  Here is the wordpress codex for this feature: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_rss.
To add the p2p lending news to my sidebar I added the following to my [...]

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Phentermine

With the program that I am on, I am currently taking Phentermine HCl 30mg.  With this post I wanted to share what my doctors says about this drug…  The page in my program is taking about 2 drugs at the same time Phendimetrazine and Phentermine.  I am currently only on Phentermine and have little or [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Phentermine”, url: “http://www.weightladder.com/2008/04/20/phentermine/” });

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Methionine, Inositol, and Choline (MIC) Injection

As part of the medically assisted weightloss program I receive a weekly injection of Methionine, Inositol, and Choline (MIC).  Here is what the packet my doctor gave me has to say about them…
These lipotropic agents belong to a class of substances that play important roles in the body’s use of fat.  Of these substances methionine, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Methionine, Inositol, and Choline (MIC) Injection”, url: “http://www.weightladder.com/2008/04/17/methionine-inositol-and-choline-mic-injection/” });

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WeightLadder Reset — 390lbs and Starting Medically Assisted Weightloss

Well nothing like tax day to make you take the plunge…  Recently I bid on and “won” the first month of a medically supervised weightloss program called Jumpstart Medicine with Dr Sean Bourke.  It turns out that I did receive a substantial discount by purchasing through the charity auction.  I am committed to this medical food [...]

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Resurrecting Weight Loss Blog

Well…  after making it through vacation last summer still on track I preceded to mail it in…  I fell off the weight loss wagon.  I am now starting weightloss attempt #778. 
What went wrong?  Commitment?  Desire?  Not really sure, but it is time to try again.
I expect to reset my starting weight and current weight once [...]

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Not Enough Golf

First Too Much Golf and now not enough golf.  Since my 3 days in a row I have yet to play again.  Now that I am on vacation for a family emergency it is looking like I won’t get to play again for at least another couple of weeks.
There goes any touch I had developed lately.  [...]

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Welcome to My Golf Blog

This a blog about golf.  The great maddening game of golf.  I will cover golf course reviews, golf club reviews, golf gambling, and golf news.
I try to play as often as I can.  I love to play.  I wish I played better.
Comments and links encouraged.

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Blog Starting Point

This is my weight loss blog.  This is a very personal journey.  I have struggled with weight my entire life.  Even though I played DI basketball I have never been thin.  This documents my weight loss as I attempt to attain my former playing weight of 255lbs.  I am starting at 370lbs.

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