Day 302 - Size L Sweatshirt

I mentioned that on Sunday morning I went to see a movie.  It's almost summer, and for the most part, all I wear is t-shirts.  Knowing how the movie theater set their air condition I bring along a sweatshirt to keep warm.  I've been wearing XL sweatshirt for at least 20 years, and the one that I have (2 years old) feel way too large and not going to offer the insulation that I need.

We found some unused L size sweatshirts from way back that I had attempted to wear a couple of months back.  Wearing it is still a challenge (I have to remove my glasses to fit my head through).  Other than the wearing and removing of this piece of clothing, the sweat shirt fits fine.  It's also L size, which I supposed is my current size clothing.

114/78/67 198.8lb 94 mg/DL

Day 301 - 130 Pounds Down

After the horrendous none-morning-sleep-in the past 2 weekend days, I opted for the next best thing.  I slept for 5 hours on Sunday afternoon in an attempt at catching up.  Whatever it is, I still don't feel anywhere near awake yet, even as I'm typing this at 6AM.

I was pleasantly surprised at the scale this morning.  197.4lb, which means I'm now 130 pounds down from day of the surgery.

More updates later.

106/70/54 197.4lb 102 mg/DL

Day 300 - End of Week 43

08-07-2010 Front

08-07-2010 Side

06-05-2011 Front

06-05-2011 Side

I swear, the folks in the other time zone don't want me to sleep.  They woke me up again this morning at 4AM, and once again, I cannot go back to sleep.  So I opted to start my day earlier.  It's ironic that on my weekend days where I tried to catch up on sleep, I didn't get anywhere near as much as I wanted?

In my exercise this morning, I walked for 3 minutes before realizing that I haven't use the knee bracer yet.  So I shutdown the treadmill and put up the bracer.  It definitely helps.  In the 3 minutes of free form walking, I was started to feel inflamed sensation on my left knee.  Once with the bracer on, while it makes walking more stiff, I don't get as much pain.  Now that the left knee is thanking me, Perhaps I should wear it on both knees.

111/74/52 199lb 96 mg/DL
Week to Week 1lb
Total Weight Loss 129lb
Body Mass Index 28.55

Day 299 - A Tiring Day

The work woke me up this morning at 3:48AM, haven't been back to sleep since.  By the time the call finished, it was time for my morning exercise, and I was running a bit late for my car's service appointment.  It was supposed to be a 2 hours service job, but they found additional repair that they recommended (and it was covered by warranty, which saves me about $378).  The only down side is that the additional work took another 3 hours.  Due to the fact that I ran out of time as I ran out of the house, my breakfast consisted of 1 small bag of beef jerky and lots of coffee.  Not the most healthy example.

After getting my car back, it's another race against time for me to get to Costco to get flower for my mother's grave.  The cemetery closes at 5PM, so I had to rush a bit.

By the time I got home I'm dead tire.  Fortunately I did the housework yesterday.

114/73/61 199.2lb 101 mg/DL

Day 298 - Adding New Information On Spreadsheet

I've decided to add 2 new column on both my Excel spreadsheet and the Google Doc spreadsheet that I maintain to track my weigh loss.  First one is Body Mass Index, which gives me a easy way to figure out where I'm at in terms of ideal weight relative to my height.  Second one is the Percentage Excess Weight Loss, with 328lb as the starting point, and 174lb as goal.

As of today, my BMI is 28.52 and my %EWL is 83.90%.  Consider that the surgical program's definition of success is loss of 65% to 80%, I guess I'm successful.  I do want to hit that 100% goal.

I also went back and update the Sunday posts to back fill the Total Weight Loss information and add BMI for referral purpose.

115/72/55 198.8lb 101 mg/DL

Day 297 - iLevel 359

We finished all but one boss in the current round of raid content last night.  I got 2 pieces of new gears, that finally pushed my iLevel up to 359, the current raid content level.  I'm going to do a bit of reshuffling, mainly re-gem some of my choices to get more mastery.

I plan to do some clothing shopping this weekend, mainly to get new gym shorts, t-shirts with pocket and short sleeve shirts with pocket.  I really need new gym shirts, since my old ones are falling apart.

113/75/48 199.6lb 93 mg/DL

Day 296 - Dizziness Update

It's been almost 2 weeks since the onset of my dizziness spell.  The situation have improved somewhat, now that I know what not to do to trigger it.  I know it's mainly my left side of inner ear balancing mechanism that's messed up, and I have a suspicion on why that is.  With me not wanting to take motion sickness drug (drowsiness), I guess I'll have to tough it out.

Blizzard push out the Winged Guardian mount on their store yesterday.  Of course, I snag it up for all of my toons.  No point in not getting it.  Now just waiting for patch 4.2 to get 4 more pets.

We did a comparison check on the glucose meter this morning, and it would appear that my machine is consistently 10 points higher than my father's meter.  So the numbers the rest of my family puts up is actually worse than it is, or my number is better.

112/77/74 199.8lb 105 mg/DL