Life 2.0
Friday, June 29th, 2007
As of 2004 the CDC reports the average life expectancy at 77.9 years. If I’m smart, avoid getting creamed by a car running across Everett Mall Way, and try to life a healthy life I just might make it there. So, as I head into the latter half of my life it’s becoming very clear that I need to lose some weight. This might have something to do with my right and left feet tag-teaming me with Gout, one after the other. It’s at this point in my monologue that we pause for a station break—I weigh 354 pounds—there, I said it.
So, I’m going to give MediFast a good 3 month trial and see how it goes—the goal being a 12 month program. I am really amped up to get started and thankfully that looks like it might be Tuesday. Might strike you as odd to talk about this in such a public forum, I know, but I’m comfortable with who and what I am—and you should be too.
To keep me accountable I’m going to make weekly updates here on my blog where I’ll record my current weight and blood pressure. I’ll get monthly blood tests to monitor such things as cholesterol, uric acid (causes gout symptoms) and whatever else those white-coats normally do. 
Feel free to check back as often as you like. You’ll get to see a nice graph plotting these metrics and probably a picture of my face each week. As the pounds melt away the pictures will tell-the-tale and when I’m done with this project I’ll put them together into a nice time-laps animation to see 12 months in less than a minute. Fun, huh?
As of 2004 the CDC reports the average life expectancy at 77.9 years. If I’m smart, avoid getting creamed by a car running across Everett Mall Way, and try to life a healthy life I just might make it there. So, as I head into the latter half of my life it’s becoming very clear that I need to lose some weight. This might have something to do with my right and left feet tag-teaming me with Gout, one after the other. It’s at this point in my monologue that we pause for a station break—I weigh 354 pounds—there, I said it.
So, I’m going to give MediFast a good 3 month trial and see how it goes—the goal being a 12 month program. I am really amped up to get started and thankfully that looks like it might be Tuesday. Might strike you as odd to talk about this in such a public forum, I know, but I’m comfortable with who and what I am—and you should be too.
To keep me accountable I’m going to make weekly updates here on my blog where I’ll record my current weight and blood pressure. I’ll get monthly blood tests to monitor such things as cholesterol, uric acid (causes gout symptoms) and whatever else those white-coats normally do. Feel free to check back as often as you like. You’ll get to see a nice graph plotting these metrics and probably a picture of my face each week. As the pounds melt away the pictures will tell-the-tale and when I’m done with this project I’ll put them together into a nice time-laps animation to see 12 months in less than a minute. Fun, huh?
