Weight loss

OK, so here's the before shot. Yeah, I know, supremely gay pose. I have no doubt that more gay men find it attractive than do straight women. What can I say, I had just gotten off an 8 month deployment and had been drinking and thought "I'm in really good shape, I ought to document this for posterity and/or online dating purposes" So i did, and ever since this picture has kinda haunted me. It's just that when a kid who's always been just a little soft around the midsection suddenly finds himself in shape and drunk, there are many worse things he could do than take a photograph of himself in his barracks room while still wearing his stupid rigger's belt (tool). I wish there were a non-asswipe pose picture of me in this condition, but at that time in my life I didn't do a lot of shirtless photography and never really took more, so this is all i've got to show what once was. I hope to replace it with another similar one where I'm in the same shape, but maybe in not quite as homoerotic a pose.

I probably weighed 170-175 pounds in this picture, which was taken in March of '02. I was doing 30 pullups and running a 20 minute 3 mile and spending my weekends drinking, smoking, and being uncivilized. By June taco bell had gotten me back up to a beefy 190, where I bounced around +/- 5 lbs till I got out of the corps and promptly got up somewhere close to 210, where I stayed +/- 5 lbs till I started doing triathlons, which has taken about 10-15 pounds off.


So he'res last summer... 205 or so, blech. Note the beginnings of man boobs.


Today i weigh 196. I want to be in the 180's by April, and by the Half Ironman, back down to the mid/low 170's.

Let's see how I do! Will keep you updated...










Why does it feel so good to put this embarrassing, personal crap on the internet for all to see? What is wrong with me?