Yes, I’ve gained 18 pounds since my last weigh-in two weeks ago.

My current weight is 474 lbs. It’s time I get back to basics. I’m going to revert back to logging my food on the blog.

Where things went wrong:

• I just gave up for 2 weeks.
• Excuses! I keep making excuses.
• Ignored my weight. I did not monitor my weight.
• Did not blog…. I tend to do better when I blog often.
• Skipped workouts

It all stops today!!!

My primary goal is to eat less than 2000 calories per day for seven days. Danny and I are working on another walking schedule right now since my foot has healed.

Here’s a question that was asked by Christine yesterday:

Hey Stephen! I love your photos and enjoy seeing them, but I’m perplexed by them too. What happened to updates about food, exercise, weight loss? I have no idea how you are doing on your weight-loss journey. Are you still “in the game,” so to speak?

Hey Christine, thank you for asking. Yes, I’m still “in the game.” But I’ve been in a slump lately.

Also, I hope the pics aren’t too annoying. They are off topic.

Last week I skipped my weigh-in, and my eating and exercise has not been on track.

Here are my excuses:

• I got the munchies when I started taking antibiotics for tonsillitis. I don’t know if it’s possible for antibiotics to make a person hungry, but I was.
• My Aunt died, so I just ate whatever I wanted.
• I only like to workout in the morning. If I miss my morning workout, I’ve missed my workout. Oh well…

Earlier I was texting with Emily, and she asked what was one thing that I would like to change everyday for the next seven days. I’m going to eat less than 2000 calories every day for the next seven days. I’ll report my progress every day.

My most pressing goal is the 200 lb loss milestone. As of my last weigh in I’ve got 24 lbs to go, but since I haven’t been doing well, and I’ve skipped a weigh-in, I don’t know where I’m at now. I’m going to weigh in the morning. Like Sonthe says, “before you lose 100 lbs, you must lose 5.”

Now that things have settled down at home and I’m feeling better, I’ll start my workouts again.

I just want some consistency!!!!

One great thing happened on Sunday, my cousin from Atlanta told me that she’s lost twenty lbs and is swimming an hour a day because of my blog. That felt good.

“Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband, cuz they’re rapin errbody out here.”

Well, at least my truck blended in. I wonder what the neighbors thought when I pulled up. “Damn, a computer must have blown up.” (I try to laugh at everything life throws at me, it’s better than the alternative.)

Today is a sad day. My Aunt Carol passed away last night from a staph infection. She was a sweet, sweet lady. I loved her, and I will miss her.

Carol lived with her brother and his wife. My Uncle found her this morning in her bedroom. I received the news while getting ready for work this morning.

When I arrived at the trailer this morning, there was a crime scene unit and a few police cars there. Since she died in the trailer, they had to conduct a small investigation, but the coroner did determine that her cause of death was from a Staph infection.

A couple of weeks ago Carol was bitten by a bug on her neck, and the bite had swollen up to the size of a large grapefruit. Carol refused to go to the doctor, but instead called her doctor, and he prescribed her some antibiotics. Well, Carol got sick from the antibiotics. She got so bad that she couldn’t get out of bed the last few days. The entire time this was going on my Uncle and his wife kept begging her to go to the doctor, but you can’t force somebody to do something that they don’t want to do. The bite did shrink, so Carol thought the antibiotics were working, but she was just getting sick from the antibiotics. Well, come to find out, the antibiotics did shrink the wound, but the staph infection was what was making her sick. Well, I guess her heart couldn’t take any more this morning. When my Uncle found her, Carol’s cat was laying beside her looking at her.

The major issue this morning was getting her body out of the trailer. Carol was a big woman. I would say she weighed somewhere around 500 lbs, and she stayed in a tiny bedroom that was big enough for a twin bed and dresser.  Once the coroner arrived on the scene and did their thing, the fire department was called out to remove the body. Two fire trucks arrived, fortunately without their lights and siren. I was assuming the worst that the trailer was going to have to be cut where her bedroom was, but all they had to do was cut off her bedroom door, and they were able to transport her out the back door. My Uncle and his wife went into their bedroom, and I sat outside in my truck while all of this was going on.

I really loved how the Alabaster Police Dept., Fire Dept, and Coroner’s office handled the situation. They were very respectful and professional.

The whole time I was there I thought, “I don’t want that to be me one day.”

This weight is coming off. I’m sick and tired of dealing with this obesity shit!!!

I hope I’m not being disrespectful to my Aunt for posting this, but I don’t want my family and friends to go trough what I went through today. I don’t want a bunch of firemen to have to lift my body out of my house when my time comes.