At our office, during the season of this most wonderful overtime, we’ve put together a competition called “The Largest Loser”. If you’ve never seen the show, the premise is that a bunch of people who want to lose weight will get together and lose a bunch of weight over 6 weeks. We’re basically doing that. Everyone who wants to participate in the 6 week competition will put up $10 and weigh in (last Friday). Winner gets the pot, minus $50 for gift cards for #2 and #3. As far as I know, 11 people signed up, so the winner will get $60. Not terrible incentive.
I signed up of course. I always say I want to lose weight, but I never stick with it. This time, I’m going to. It’s motivation, weekly weigh-ins, and mostly public. I have the support of my team at work, and most of ‘em aren’t going to try to sabotage me. 
Issue #1: I weighed in last week at 251.4 pounds (114.033 kg). This is wrong. The scale they’re using to weigh in, is digital. It’s quite..off. Mine is off by 20 pounds. I’m considering myself to have started at 271.4, for practical reasons. 3 other scales confirm that I’m always around 270ish for weight (122.469 kg :p)
I’ve set a goal for myself, according to the *real* scales. After the 6 weeks, I hope to be 250 pounds (113.398 kg). or, 230 pounds (104.326 kg) according to the broken scale of brokenness.
Thus far, I’ve kept myself under 2000 calories per day. Each morning, I wake up and have a fried egg between toast (230 calories). Then I shower and go to work. While there, I consume a monster (200 calories, but all the daily required energy I need to make it through another mind-numbing 10 hour day at work), and an apple. That’s another 270 calories. (Hey, we’re at 500!). For lunch, I’ve been bringing 2 sandwiches comprised of meat and cheese. This is roughly 460 calories. Between lunch and time to go home, I snack on these little korean wheat cookies, made with sesame seeds and such. 66 calories, low sugars, great taste.
So, by the time I come home, I’m sitting at roughly 900 calories to go. This lets me eat a sensible dinner + snack later, or splurge and have a delicious dinner..whatever I need to do.
I hit the gym last night. 20 minutes on the treadmill doing warm-up walking/jogging, with a mild spring about 15 minutes into it. Afterwards, I did some situps, and worked my upper body using the many machines available at my gym here at the apartment. After that, I did another quick sprint and cool-down walk on the treadmill. Workout length: 45 minutes, calories burned: 250-300. Should be able to go again today.
I might swim laps instead.
