Posted by Patrick Corkum on May 5, 2010
So, it has been a little while since I have updated on my weight loss journey. The bad news first…. I didn’t lose any weight. In fact, I am up to 187.4. Argh…. So, I have to ask myself why. And here are the reasons excuses why:
- My body doesn’t want to cooperate.
- I have not been able to do much exercise because I hurt my achilles while playing golf.
- I had to eat out too much because I went on two trips.
Now, regardless of whether or not I have been able to exercise because of my injury (which has been quite painful), I had gone almost a full week eating only a very few calories per day and running on the treadmill for 30 minutes a day. After all of that, I had gained weight to more than I am now. I think my body has gotten to the point where it pulls calories out of the air. Either that or the energy companies need to obtain my body for scientific research in order to determine how to get more energy out of a system than goes in. I could be a millionaire!
Posted by Patrick Corkum on April 19, 2010
My wife, God bless her heart, has opinions about my physical appearance. Yes, I am sure this comes to you as a surprise! Well, my father recently retired from his job of many, many years and brought me the picture that he had kept in his office of me for the past 15 or so years. I am guessing that it is probably during my Junior year of high school. I am guessing this because of the fact that I was wearing blue jeans (before that I would only wear black). Also, I think that I might have been a little bit thinner in my senior. See picture:
So, it is not the best picture ever taken of me, but it isn’t THAT bad. I am/was a towering 5′ 5″ and in the picture was probably between 115 and 120 pounds. After seeing the strikingly handsome image of me in the picture, she proclaimed, “It’s a good thing that I didn’t meet you in High School. Yes, I am that shallow.” Ouch!
This leaves me in a bit of a predicament. Currently, I am a bit heavy. Okay, the stupid BMI things try to tell me that I am morbidly obese. This is a bit overkill (no pun intended). I can run a 5K faster than my wife who tips the scales around the 3 digit mark, so it isn’t THAT bad. That being said, I definitely need to lose weight. The problem is that my itty-bitty wife doesn’t want me to because she is afraid that I will lose my “cuddliness”. Basically, she is telling me that she would rather me be cuddly than healthy/alive. Okay, she really doesn’t feel that way, but she doesn’t want me to look like I did in High School (really, I think it is the hair she doesn’t like).
So, what is a big man to do? Well, I struck up a bargain with her. We are both science/technology/engineer/math freak (aka STEM freaks). So, I devised a method where we will optimize my health/attractiveness/cuddliness/etc…. What we are going to do, starting today is that I am going to start dropping the pounds by eating well and exercising. Then, on a weekly basis (Monday morning), I am going to blog about where I stand with my weight and fat% as it is reported on my scale. She is then going rate me in those categories that she finds so important (i.e. cuddliness) on her blog (www.theCorkums.com). Let the blogging begin!
As of waking up this morning:
- Weight – 186.6 lbs (which is low because I was like 190.2 just a couple days ago)
- Fat % – 30.9% (my water % is low in the morning which throws this number off)
Please, if I am to do this, I am going to need a whole lotta prayer!
