January 2011

Fantastic Weekend

by Stephen Vinson January 31, 2011

This weekend was amazing! Saturday, Will and I did our long walk on the Mercedes course. It was such a beautiful day that I decided to walk around Rail Road Park and take some pictures. (And Will was an hour late, ha ha.) After our long walk, Will “Brotha Wife” Nevin and I had a [...]

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Absolutely Alabama – I can only say WOW!

by Stephen Vinson January 28, 2011

Thank you again to the Mercedes Marathon organizers, Fox 6, and Fred Hunter. The Absolutely Alabama segment was fantastic!!! Here’s the link to the video on the Fox 6 site: http://www.myfoxal.com/global/category.asp?c=195956&autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=5513035

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Thank you Fred Hunter, Fox6, and the folks at the Mercedes Marathon

by Stephen Vinson January 28, 2011

Starting tonight at 9pm on Fox6 in Birmingham, AL, Fred Hunter did a story on my blog and walking the upcoming Mercedes Half Marathon. The Absolutely Alabama segment will also air during newscasts this weekend. They will post the video to their website, and I will post it on here, so stay tuned if you’re [...]

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Weigh In, Meeting with Dietician

by Stephen Vinson January 26, 2011

Sunday’s Weigh-In: 396 LBS Yesterday’s Weigh-In: 399 LBS Loss for the week: +3 LBS Starting Weight 02/01/09: 632 LBS Total Weight Lost Since 02/01/09 : -233 LBS Thankfully, I only gained three pounds!!! I over did it this weekend with food and alcohol!!! Meeting with Sonthe Sonthe and I met this morning and I had to [...]

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Food Blog South 2011

by Stephen Vinson January 25, 2011

This past Friday night and Saturday, 120 bloggers, including myself, attended the first Food Blog South, a food blogging conference, in Birmingham, Alabama. Friday night there was an opening reception at Jim ‘N Nick’s Bar-B-Q in Five Points South, and the conference was hosted at Woodrow Hall in Woodlawn. The conference was a smashing success! Shaun [...]

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Bad Day Yesterday, Today, and FoodBlogSouth

by Stephen Vinson January 21, 2011

Wow! Yesterday was a terrible day for me. If you follow me on twitter, I did just a little venting of my irrational thoughts yesterday. My apologies for polluting your feed. And, thank you to those who tolerated it and offered support. By the way, I did delete a lot of those tweets in case [...]

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Weigh In, Meeting with Sonthe Yesterday, and I’m Recruiting Supporters

by Stephen Vinson January 20, 2011

Sunday’s Weigh-In: 394 LBS Yesterday’s Weigh-In: 396 LBS Loss for the week: +2 LBS Starting Weight 02/01/09: 632 LBS Total Weight Lost Since 02/01/09 : -236 LBS This week I have moved my weigh ins to Wednesday. My prior weigh in was last Sunday. I gained two pounds Meeting with Sonthe (my dietitian) Yesterday Sonthe was [...]

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First Episode of Heavy

by Stephen Vinson January 18, 2011

(Above image from Heavy’s Facebook Page) Although I’ve auditioned for a couple of different weight loss reality shows, I don’t normally watch them. I typically will watch the first episode of biggest loser every season and quickly lose interest. Last night I kept seeing a lot of people tweet about Heavy, a new weight loss [...]

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This Morning’s Appearance on Talk of Alabama

by Stephen Vinson January 17, 2011

I was, of course, really nervous about going on TV this morning, and was pleased with how the segment went. I wish I had said more, but I really wasn’t prepared with what questions were going to be asked. I’m just going with the flow on this Champions for Health project. It is fun!!! Here’s [...]

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Weigh In & Is It Easy To Walk 13.1 Miles? No It’s Snot!

by Stephen Vinson January 16, 2011

Last Week’s Weigh-In: 402 LBS This Week’s Weigh-In: 394 LBS Loss for the week: -8 LBS Starting Weight 02/01/09: 632 LBS Total Weight Lost Since 02/01/09 : -238 LBS I’m FINALLY back in the 300′s. Back on December 5, 2010 I was at my lowest weight of 398 pounds, but the holidays arrived, and I [...]