"Forgot" one of the worst ones...

I have only one small, out of focus picture from when I was well over 300 Lbs. (136 KG) taken when I was living an almost completely sedentary existence.

This picture was taken in the spring of 2005 when I was still a union local Secretary/Treasurer :

I hate this picture below now but thought it looked pretty good then as I had lost over 60 Lbs. from my worst above. 

April, 2009    234.1 Lbs.   (106.1 KG)

This was taken four months before I left for the bush and was down to 89 KG. Of course, taking it off is, in retrospect, the easy part. It's keeping it off that's the bitch.

November, 2010   168.6 Lbs.   (76.4 KG)

This is where I stand at the end of 2010, cycling between the low one sixties and the high one seventies with 180 putting me into an existential panic that all this effort is being lost. One of my metaphors is that of a leaky boat, out on a pond with my continuously and unrelentingly bail of water or will eventually sink.  The water is like fat, filling the boat and the bailing is burning calories.

Year End Fitness Progress Report (1)

Before I began using the blog to discuss water board issues, I had intended it to post reports on my progress, or lack of it. Since on 10 December, 2009 I weighed 178.4 (80.9KG) and today, after hiking well more than 1,000 miles with a 20KG backpack, I weigh 169.6! 

Not much progress if I look only at weight, which has fluctuated over a 12 pound range for the past 18 months. There are other fitness related issues  to discuss, however.

December, 2007      252.2 Lbs     (114.5KG)  

You can't tell from my expression, but I was rather pleased with myself as I had already lost at least 60 pounds from a high somewhere around (I wasn't weighing then) of 310 - 325 pounds (140.6KG). I had decided that I was going to backpack in the Australian outback and that I had to get into shape for the trip.

May, 2008      240.4 Lbs     (109 KG)  

Here, I was still 85 Lbs. over my ideal weight, morbidly obese, yet feeling pretty good at being at least 75 Lbs. below my worst.

August, 2008      235.6 Lbs.     (106.8 KG)  

While the ground was still smoking, the terrible forest fire which passed just across the river from Tobin led to a great deal of work attempting to reestablish water. I was to hike down the mountain from the Jackass Creek dam, some 450 feet of smoking ash, brambles and burned logs with a variety of officialdom six times. Pretty good means to take off a few pounds, 18 actually.

August, 2008      235.6 Lbs.     (106.8 KG)  

I am now a mere one year before my foray down under and was still way above what I was shooting for before heading into the bush.

April, 2009      217.2 Lbs.     (98.5 KG)  

I decided that I did not want to embarrass myself and by extension all Americans by falling off my horse when on a cattle station. I was concerned about being too heavy for the horse, though.

May, 2009      202.6 Lbs.     (91.8 KG)  

A mere 3 months before my flight, I'm beginning to feel progress is being made.

August, 2009      201.8 Lbs.     (91.5 KG)  

This is about as good as it would get but I managed to be below 90 KG before we jumped from the plane.

August, 2010      168.2 Lbs.     (76.3 KG)  

As a born again nudist I am extremely opposed to the notion that some parts of the body are capable of "indecent exposure" and with the Blog warning that this blog might be unacceptable to some, nonetheless the fig leaf is easier than complaints. 

They and others are posted uncensored on the Tribe website called Fit & Nude: 

http://tribes.tribe.net/fitnessnudism?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Tribe%5B33015ebb-4d50-48ba-835a-ad9192c10ddc%5D

August, 2010      168.2 Lbs.     (76.3 KG)  

Now, four months later in December most of the loose skin has reabsorbed. 

August, 2010      168.2 Lbs.     (76.3 KG)  

I actually like this picture which was taken on the "clothing optional" territory shared by myself and my immediate neighbors in lower Tobin Hts.