Love Is an Orientation » My Own Biggest Loser http://www.loveisanorientation.com Counterculture. Faith. Love. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:45:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Weigh-in #4 and Upcoming Blog Series http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/weigh-in-4-and-upcoming-blog-series/ http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/weigh-in-4-and-upcoming-blog-series/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 23:57:00 +0000 Andrew Marin http://cjjsa.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/weigh-in-4-and-upcoming-blog-series/

Current Weight: 248.5 lbs.

Weight loss since last weigh-in: 1.5 lbs.

Total weight loss thus far: 11 lbs.

I haven’t weighed under 250 lbs. since May 2008—that’s exactly one year ago! Sweet. I’ll be weighing myself in again on Monday May 25th.

Also my next mini-series on the blog, starting with my next post, will be about the language in this culture war that drives each community further apart, and keeps us talking past each other instead of to each other.

Much love.
www.themarinfoundation.org

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Well, I have to be honest … I haven’t worked out in forever! Drat. And since, I was scared to weigh myself. But when I did this morning it was a lot better than I thought. At least I’ve been trying to eat better?! But starting tomorrow (AGAIN), I’ll be working out. Please pray for me that I’ll have consistent motivation to get my butt to the gym each day.

Current Weight: 251.0 lbs.

Weight loss since last weigh-in: 1.7 lbs.

Total weight loss thus far: 8.5 lbs.

I’ll be weighing myself in again on Friday May 1.

Much love.
www.themarinfoundation.org

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Today is January 28th and it’s time for weigh-in #2 for My Own Biggest Loser competition with myself.

Current Weight: 252.7 lbs.

Weight lost since last weigh-in: 3.3 lbs.

Total weight loss thus far: 6.8 lbs!

My next weigh-in will be in three more weeks on February 18th.

Much love.
www.themarinfoundation.org

]]> http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/weigh-in-2/feed/ 0 Weigh-in #1 http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/weigh-in-1-2/ http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/weigh-in-1-2/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:25:00 +0000 Andrew Marin http://www.loveisanorientation.com/2009/weigh-in-1-2/

I weighed myself today, like I promised I would do, exactly 3 weeks after I started my shrink-me-down-to-somewhat-normal-sized-again-please workout and diet.

I checked in at 256 lbs even. That is a loss of 3.5 lbs.

Not bad considering I gorged myself during Christmas (which in my world constitutes December 23-28) and then again on New Years (which in my world constitutes December 31-January 2).

My next weigh-in will be on January 28th.

Much love.
www.themarinfoundation.org

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This is going to be my first entry letting everyone know how fat I feel. After just getting off of my brand new scale (that I bought just for this fun adventure) I weight 259.5 lbs! That’s right, I weight like 260. Wow. By far and away this is the fattest I’ve ever been. Let me explain—as I feel like I need to somehow justify my crazy weight gain:

1. This is in part due to my first year of marriage (really though, not so much)
2. I gained 21 lbs. in 7 weeks as I wrote my book
3. I gained another 6 lbs. editing my book in three weeks
4. I quit working out
5. I quit eating healthy
6. I decided wearing sweatpants was the best form of comfortableness, so I went with it

All together that adds up to a gain of 39.5 lbs over the last year. A couple weeks ago I had to break down and by some new pants because I can’t fit in any of mine. My sweet looking wardrobe has been serious stifled because I can’t really fit in any of my clothes either.

The question is, why now am I choosing to try to lose weight? I think now’s a good time to start changing my health because:

1. It’s before New Years, so technically this isn’t a New Years Resolution that I’ll end up failing at.
2. I’m tired of getting winded after walking up a couple stairs
3. My stomach gets in the way of me putting on my socks and tying my shoes
4. I’m embarrassed standing in front of so many people talking about being a distinct Christian when gluttony and being obese are both just as bad as any sin anyone could imagine.
5. But most of all, I’m not comfortable in my skin or with myself in this roly-poly state.

And since I’ve clearly not been able to lose weight on my own (or technically, even care about losing weight), I’ve decided to make it public. If nothing else, I’m going to totally embarrass myself in front of everyone if I don’t work hard and lose weight because I’m going to write a post about my progress every 3 weeks from here on out. I’m doing this like Diddy. He did his whole weight loss thing on MTV, and as far as I know, MTV has way more viewers then my blog. Plus, what about all of those people on the Biggest Loser? Would you get up on national TV in a pair of spandex with your fat hanging all over the place? No thank you. To spare you that thought, here are recent pictures of me in all of my glory. The first one is the day I turned my book in to my publisher. Minus the beard (that was an experiment gone wrong), my belly still looks the same.


And this second picture was taken Nov. 21, 2008 as I spoke at the Youth Specialties national convention in Nashville, TN. As you can see by my belly, even my trick-of-the-eye sweater isn’t hiding it too well. Drat!

Just in case you’re wondering, here’s the timeline of how I got so fat:

-I weighed 110 lbs. in 3rd grade (yeah, I was the fat kid for a while)
-Around 8th grade I came into my own … grew 4 inches and gained a lot of muscle.
-Playing three sports in high school helped a lot! I weighed about 185 throughout.
-Playing Division I baseball in college REALLY helped. I was 195 lbs. of solid, six-packed muscle—benched 315, squatted 450 and could do abs all day long. Ohhhh, how I long for those days!
-After I got hurt and my career was ended, I hovered around 210 (which was still healthy)
-Then I got tired of working out and so I quit. I shot up to about 225 pretty quick—where I have been for the majority of the last 4 or so years.
-When I got married on Nov 3, 2007 I was 230.
-From May 1-July 7, 2008 writing my book I went from 230 to 251.
-Then a couple more pounds here and there (because hey, when you’re already fat, who cares about a few more?)
-Finally, the three weeks I edited my book I went from 253.5 to 259.5.

And here we are today.

So here’s how I’m going to lose the weight:

1. Cut all of my food portions in half
2. Eat three meals a day (I have a problem with overeating, so when I start it’s hard to stop—I’m not one of those 6 small meal guys)
3. No pop or no dessert
4. Work out: Consisting of cardio, weights and then abs

What is my goal weight … well, I’m not too sure. All I know is that I would love to get back down to my married weight first. So I’ll say the first goal is to hit 230, and then we’ll reassess. If all goes well, I would eventually love to get back down to about 210! :)

Hope it works! We’ll find out my progress on January 7, 2009.

Much love.
http://www.themarinfoundation.org/

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