December BP

 

Weight Loss and Retired Guy

I am pleased to report that I have lost four pounds and quickly moved away from the terrible weight I reported in the last post. I'm feeling pretty confident that I will be able to lose this weight as I'm feeling pretty motivated.

I'm going for 40 pounds, that will get me to and even 200 pounds which I feel is a good weight for me. With four pounds off I'm a tenth of the way there.

I'm back to walking. I've been going to Northtown Mall and walking there like all the other old people. I'm walking 1 1/2 miles every time I go and I'm shooying for a goal of completing the walk in 20 minutes by the end of January.

My first walk was 25 minutes and I managed to take two minutes off that yesterday.

I'm not really calling tthis next thing a New Years Resolution although you could easily categorize it as such.

I want to be drawing more. I've pretty much stopped doing anything artsy and in the process, I've lost a lot of knowledge on how to operate Adobe Illustrator.

So I've started a new Blog where I'm going to post a cartoon a day.

www.the-retired-guy.blogspot.com

I've put up a page that says it is starting January First. I already have about ten cartoons in the hopper.

I'm really having fun doing this. The tough part is coo\ming up with ideas. But now that I'm in that mindset, I'm finding they appear to me fairly easily.

I'm getting a couple of good ideas a day and I've been drawing since the 19th when I first thought of the idea.

I'm using Procreate on my i pad. It's a great graphics program that I have only touched the surface of. It is so complex and loaded with features.

I watched a couple of instructional videos on YouTube to help me learn it.

I've developed a character called Retired Guy. See below.

I kind of want to fashion his persona as a Super Hero. You know, here comes Retired Guy. He is definitely based on me and the stuff I go through day to day. But as they say, write what you know!

I'm getting ideas everywhere, especially when I'm on a walk. 

There is potential here to earning some money from this but that is going to be a ways down the road. For now, I just want to draw more. If money comes from it later, that is a bonus.

 

    

Merry Christmas

I received a lump of coal from my body this morning. I weighed 240.6 pounds. That is my heaviest ever and I really mean it this time when I say, nay...exclaim, it stops here.

I'm sure it had nothing to do with all the crap I ate yesterday. Let's see...cookies, cheese and crackers, a giant piece of delicious prime rib with creamy mashed potatoes, all topped off with two large glasses of eggnog. 

As I said, it ends here!

Update: After being up for a while and a very healthy visit to the bathroom, I re-weighed myself and found I lost a pound. So I have started my path back to a fit weight.

As I said, a very healthy visit to the bathroom.   

Heavy Stan

Yesterday I weighed in at 238 pounds. This is the most I have ever weighed and it ends now.

Fortunately, the scale displayed 237.2 pounds this morning so I'm heading in the right direction.

I've been hoovering at 234 for the last two months. I can't seem to get below it. Frankly, I'm not trying that hard. I'm hoping I now have the motivation to lose the weight.

As always, my progress will be chronicled here.

Sleep Score

So far this month, I have been very successful with my BiPap usage.

Every nightly score has been either 99 or 100 points. 

I had a range of 9 consecutive 100 point nights up until December second. I had another 99 last night that broke my current streak.

I tried for the longest time to get a perfect score but it alluded me for months. I get 70 points just for using the contraption for seven hours. If I’m trying for 100, the other 30 points are where I run into trouble.

I know it’s a weird thing to keep track of, and even weirder to mention it, but that’s my life now.

By the way, I don't believe that any of these scores translate into whether I slept well or not.

November BP