2010: On My Way to 210

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A year ago, I was in bad shape.

An herniated disk was the worst of my problems.  Having escaped the  bounds of my vertebrae, the disk tissue was compressing my sciatic nerve.  Overnight, I went from mind-numbing, crawling-on-the-floor, screaming-in-pain agony to complete numbness in my left leg, hip to toe.   There were one or two other health issues afflicting me; the only other one that was causing quality-of-life issues is a middle-aged thing ( I turned 40 last April), and that would be anal fissures.

Luckily, quite luckily, both issues were resolved non-surgically.

Due to these problems, my weight ballooned.  I had once told myself that I would never exceed Homer Simpson’s weight of 239 lbs.  (That’s his usual weight not counting the episode he intentionally got to 300 lbs to get on worker’s comp allowing him to telecommute.)  I know that I was above 240 lbs, and I believe I peaked at 245.

Getting From There to Here

1.  Started running.  Trained for and completed a 10k in September.  Then I got swine flu and pneumonia, and so I’ve only run twice since.
2. Over the summer, became a vegetarian, then a vegan.

Those are the two big factors.  By November, I was around 220 lbs.  I’ve been as low as 215 lbs.  After travelling for the holidays, I checked the scale, completely paranoid that I’d gone back above 220.  But no.  Even after the many fantastic meals at my in-laws, I’m still 218 lbs.

Link Love

• MacDaddy over at Get Fit Slowly shops for some wardrobe updates to highlight his weightloss.
• He also provides a year-end wrap up.
• FrugalDad provides a Frugal Diet Plan for 2010
• Mary encourages weightloss by small steps on John Is Fit.
• Michael, also at John is Fit, discusses mindset in weightloss.
• Matt, at FiveCentNickle, writes on the financial impact of obesity.
• Chris Pirillo offers 50 weightloss tips.

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