I haven’t been completely happy with myself lately.
I am happy with my life in general, and external things. In fact, let me preface this post by saying that I’m happy with my wife, my friends and my family. Even my job is pretty good despite the oncoming layoffs which I hopefully won’t be subjected to, but you never know.
I mainly see my intellectual and physical development hasn’t been where I’d like, despite an urge to advance in both areas (i.e. in more simplified terms I’m getting dumber and fatter).
This post isn’t meant to be a downer… my hope is I can improve on each of these aspects one by one. I think it’s completely natural to have peaks and troughs in terms of personal development. I think it’s when I identify a low that I make valiant efforts at trying to improve myself. Let’s see how things go.
I’ll attempt to post more details. One of the things I want to do is keep a better journal of my life, be it a blog or otherwise… it seems to be what all the cool kids are doing … or were doing 
Well losing about 20-25 pounds (of mostly fat) in the year before my wedding definitely had the intended effect of receiving positive comments from friends and family. I secretly had the intent of not just being able to lose weight, but wanting to help others lose weight too. There’s no reason to suffer through anything if you can’t use it to better yourself or others later.
Since I’ve met my current goal (160 by wedding), I think I’m going to have a new goal, and I’ll use this opportunity to walk people through the way I lost weight — sort of. I took a lot of liberties with my daily diet, and I don’t recommend that others do the same. I do recommend that people write down any drastic changes that they might be contemplating and their desired goals and discuss them with their doctor or other qualified professional. Everything that I mention in this blog is purely anecdotal and should not be construed as best dietary practices.
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160 pounds.
That was my goal weight for my wedding date, and I made it. There’s been a lot of interested parties as to how I lost my weight, apparently it’s visibly noticable. My pants are much looser too. And of course, I feel lighter.
As to what I did, it’s not all to different than Jeremy’s approach. Although I knew I didn’t want to rigidly count calories. After the wedding, I’ll try to concisely reveal what it is I did to lose weight, since a lot of friends and family have asked.
As for the wedding, things are coming together, and I am very excited. It’ll be a blast. A lavish blast, but still a blast. Katie and I can’t wait to see all of you who are coming in town.
