George’s Blog

As many of you know, my discharge form the Navy was under less-than-desirable circumstances. I still managed to escape with an Honorable discharge, but it was, to date, my biggest failure.

I was kicked out because I was fat. I was Too Fat To Serve.

Thus the changing of all of my screen aliases from NukeEMUSN ( Nuclear Electricians Mate US Navy) to TooFat2Serve.

Recently, my doc noted that I have high blood pressure. Not high enough to medicate, but high enough to mention it. Couple that with my other body issues (feet, back, knees), and I’m slowly killing myself. At the very least, I’m working towards a major body-breaking event.

So I need to do something about it. I’ve needed to do something about it for quite some time now. I have let it go too long. I feel like Bilbo in “Lord of the Ring,” right before he pulls a disappearing act.

Problem is, I don’t quite know WHAT I’m going to do about it yet.

We’ve adjusted our home eating habits and I’m being careful about what I get when I’m in the city. Probably going to adjust it more, but given that I’m an eating machine, it’ll take time to adjust.

So that leaves my nemesis; exercise. A word that I hate so much that I can’t spell it correctly without a spell checker.

I’m way too cheap/broke to join a gym. My foot/knee problems make running a no-go. So I’m going to have to get creative with it. Active video games and calisthenics.

I’ve tweaked a Google Docs spreadsheet as a fat-o-meter. It’s on the right side there. I’m going to track my weight loss on here. I hope you readers (all, like, 5 of you) will keep me accountable.

My first goal is 220lbs. The graph is only going to November 21, but my goal is that weight by about January 21. Slow and steady on this one.

Hopefully, by this time next year, I’ll no longer be too fat to do anything.