Weigh-In Wednesday Week 17!!!

Welcome to Weigh-In Wednesday. Week 17 Edition! A few posts back I commented on the kinda sorta "plateau" I felt like I was hitting in the mid-sixties. I was having so much trouble losing more than one pound in a week, and I just felt stuck trying to get over that magic "30" number. Part of that was slip-ups on my part I'm sure, but I still felt like it was a make it break it kind of time, where I was going to stay at around 30 pounds down, or be able to move past it and start having a 2+ pound loss week. 


This week felt like a great one all the way through. I started seeing better results on the scales and I was able to keep up my pace running and biking like never before. My food intake was also pretty solid. So......

17 Weeks Completed 

119 Days Down 

Starting Weight -- 294

Week 16 Weight -- 263.8

Today's weight -- 2-6-1! So that's another 2.8 pounds down!

Total Weight Loss to date = 33 pounds !!!

Back to being a loser. Almost 3 pounds lost just this week. SUCCESS! 

The first before pic, is me and my Dad at my wedding in June of 2010. The second pic is from about one week before I started this lifestyle change.  People keep telling me my face has really changed lol, so decide for yourselves. 

Before Pic... 

Before Pic ... Face Shot 

After 17 Weeks

And from the Side 

Like I was saying earlier, this was a very productive week, and hopefully I'll be able to replicate a similar result this week coming up. Next week's weigh-in Wednesday post will be coming to you from Wild and Wonderful West Virginia as we'll be heading up there to spend Thanksgiving with the family. 

Some cool things from this week: 

Took Jaimie to see my friends over at Chainwheel Drive in Clearwater and picked her up a bike so she can ride with me. Great bikes over there. If you need one, check em out! We did an astonishing 15 miles on the bikes on Sunday afternoon. Nice work Jaimie, even if your legs were on fire afterwards.  

I am beginning to think I can survive on rice cakes, almonds, fresh fruit, dried fruit, and low-fat string cheese as my snacks. Gets the job done, and also tastes pretty great. 

My goal for this week coming up to get into the 50's bracket. Whew. I can do it. 

Thanksgiving will present a challenge I'm sure. But I'm just going to make sure I plan accordingly. You better believe I'm gonna enjoy that meal ;-). 

Thanks to all the people that have come up to me, messaged me , or called me with encouragement! I was helping out at the Outlet at Starkey Road tonight, and it was so cool to have so many of the students and leaders come up to me telling me they could really tell the difference. Special thanks out there to Justin, Erik, Luke, Will, Jacob, Bobby, Brian, etc etc etc. I also have some great supporters at work that have kept me accountable with food and helped me stay focused. Don, Sean, Erik, etc etc. Thanks for asking me "is that part of your diet." Excellent work. 

I love the support , and it's great to have that extra motivation!

My mom sent me this quote today and I'm going to use it for the post. 

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." - Conrad Hilton

I have a bike, and I'm not afraid to ride it...

Happy Sunday Everyone!


I hope you've all had a great weekend . Mine was pretty much jam-packed but it was a blast.


I started out Friday night with an Improv show with Strangers and Fools at Smiley's Coffee House for their back to school Friday night live. We had an awesome crowd come out and it was a good time. FYI we also have some shows coming up at "The Box" Theater in Ybor in September, and also we were invited back to American Stage Theater Co. for another show on September 24th at 10 PM. Come out and see us and laugh. After the show we went out for food like we always do, and I am proud to say I successfully resisted the delicious temptations at Steak N' Shake and just made do with my cherry limeade beverage lol. What was unique about this experience, was that I never even almost ordered something. The temptation was minimal, and all I could think of was progress , progress. I'm sure a burger and fries wouldn't have killed me, but it sure would have slowed me down. 


On Saturday, I woke up with one mission in mind: Get out there and find a bicycle! I realized a few days ago that I'd never actually bought a bike, just been given them as gifts when I was younger. So I reached out to my friends etc for help. Thanks everyone for the great ideas and suggestions. Special shout outs to my brother-in-law Dan Crider and Dr. Kris Dewitt for pointing me to Chainwheel Drive Bicycles, a great local bike store here in Tampa Bay. They were happening to have their summer sale this weekend so it worked out perfectly. The people there were awesome, so if you're looking for a bike around here go see them. They have great deals. They let me test-ride about 3 different bikes and helped me find one that fit my body type. Another cool thing is that the color I wanted wasn't built yet, so they built me the color I wanted right there in the store for no extra $$$. Super Cool. It was about a $500 bike, and I got it for $350. After adding a kickstand and taxes etc it was about $387 all said and done. Not too shabby. I went with the Raleigh Venture 3.0 (see pics below). It's a hybrid style bike (thanks Bob Koechig) and I love it.

I went out for a 50 minute ride today on the new ride and it was great. It felt really good to be back on bike. One of the worst parts of the ride was riding through a giant cloud of gnats lol. When I got back and looked in the mirror most of my face and neck were covered in them. Gross.  That's a pic of me with the bike, after I got off most of the gnats. Rough pic I know. This blog is beginning to look like a scrapbook of me and the bike so lets move on haha.

Food News:

I had some great food at First Watch this weekend. My wife and I were craving breakfast. When this happens we usually go to Lenny's, Bob Evans, or the old classic Cracker Barrel. There are so many great breakfast diners around here, and one of my favorite foods in the world is good biscuits. I knew there was no way I could go there and not get one sooo.... I wanted to go somewhere a bit healthier with less temptations and still good food.  So we decided on First Watch. I went with the Power Wrap (see pic below). It was so good. 470 calories and TONS of protein. Try it, you'll love it. It's egg whites, mushrooms, spinach, onion, and swiss. 

I've seen significant progress again this week on the scale and that has been very exciting. Thanks for all the support and encouragement on this journey. 

“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” ~Henry David Thoreau