The cup is here, the cup is here!

My "Onesville" cup has arrived from Zazzle.com. This may not seem like a big deal to you, but it is to me. I have been doing very well on this diet, so far. In fact I am ahead of the weight loss schedule because the self tracking of all that I eat and thinking about being proactive about the weight loss.

Designing this cup was very easy and putting it together took a grand total of about 30 minutes from the time I came up with the idea (as I was drinking my latte, writing one of the first blog submissions) until I hit the order button.

Visual motivation and completion of a plan are very important for me in doing this, or any goal for that matter. By having this cup stare me in the face (as well as having this graphic on my computer as my desktop image), almost every day as I drink my morning cup of Latte helps keep me motivated. The questions I pose are these:

1. Is $20.00 too much to pay for a single coffee mug? Answer: Yes, $20.00 is wayyy too much!
2. Is $20.00 too much for a tool to motivate you daily to lose weight that will save your life and make your life much, much more enjoyable for the next 20-70 years? Answer: That my friend is an incredible bargain

So choose your question carefully to see what the true value of something is to you.

If you want a little bit of inspiration, consider making something like this for yourself. It can be as simple or complicated as you like. You could spend nothing on it and make it with crayons and paper or you could have the local city bus have it plastered on the side in a screen printed advertising sign. Maybe ask for the bus that goes past your house every morning as you walk out your front door.

Possibly, take a picture of the scale, like I have in other posts, and print it out, and stick it to the wall near your scale, so that when you get on the scale and maybe, perhaps, just possibly, you have let that extra pound slip back on, you have a visual reminder that you have lost that pound before and you can do it again. Call it self accountability if you will.






This may work for you, it works for me.

Very Best,

"Onesville"

Getting my Joe on the way to Onesville

Is there nothing you can't make on the Internet? I figured if I had my morning coffee in this, it would keep my mind thinking in the right direction.

Less than 20 bucks manufactured, packed up and delivered to my front door step. Probably in less than a week.

If you want one, I think there is a way for me to make it available on Zazzle, but I am not sure.

Here's to you and me keeping on our goal. If you are going to try to get to Onesville, let me know in the comment section below.

Very Best,

"Onesville"

Thanks for the props "Slim Cache"

Well, I have done lots of things online, but never have I had such a quick response as this.

Slim Cache did a nice, and very humble post about my new journey to 199 lbs., or as I have heard it called, "Onesville" (probably on Jason's blog)

• "On the way to Onesville"

It is sometimes hard to understand how we impact others lives, and yes Jason, you know about this one because of my new blog. But I would suggest to you, that for every person you know about that you have impacted in some way, there are dozens or hundreds that would never mention it to you. If you are lucky, sometime in the future you will find out. So my best guess is that I am not the only one you have inspired to work toward better health.
Very Best,
"Onesville"

Easter is the start, 270 and counting down to 199 lbs.

Hello,

I have been very inspired by the gentleman who lost over 100 pounds between his birthdays, Which happen to be on Easter Day, April 12th. He achieved the weight loss and recording it on his blog called "slim cache" Check it out.

He really went all out to do the right thing by getting down to a proper weight, in the past year he reached his goal weights on time and did a photo journal of himself. I suggest you check out his website.

As everybody else in the world has seemed to be on the yo-yo diet, so have I, back and forth, but the forth, as in moving steadily heavier over the years and has seemed to prevail by a couple of pounds every time.

Time to turn the tides.

I am also going to do an Easter 2009 to Easter 2010 weight loss, On Easter Day I weighed 270.0 lbs. and I hope, No scratch that, I will be at 199 pounds by next Easter morning, while my children, wife and I look for Easter Eggs, on Easter Morning 2010.

How am I going to do it? The best weight loss for me was 15 years ago. I did an extreme diet trying to drop 30 pounds in about 2 months. I'll tell you more about that on the next post.

Last year I dropped about 20 pounds down to 250 and felt great, lots more energy and lots of enthusiasm. But I put it all back on this last year and was about to keep going... time to stop. I have a ton of great clothing that would fit at 250, so I can lose that weight and have the nice clothing until that will become too big, then I can buy some nice clothing and get rid of all this old worn, way too big (but getting smaller on me) clothing.

So here is a start. I am a not too much of an exhibitionist so I think I will keep this to text and void of any real personal information. At least for now.

Male, early 40s, mildly athletic, or at least used to be, have great endurance but doesn't like running but likes walking and love to swim.

Swimming has been very easy for me as I was training for 4.0 mile outdoor swim. I trained all winter and the week before I did a 5.0 mile swim in 3.5 hours nonstop (and I mean to say, I stopped one time to adjust my goggles, that's it) I was in great shape but for some reason I couldn't drop weight. Swimming has challenges to be used for weight loss, but I'll touch on that in a later post.

On April 12, 2009 I weighed 270.0 Weight loss goal 199.0 (to get me to "Onesville")
Goal weight date is 199.0 on April, 12, 2010.

Some other benign stats. My waist 40 pants are getting very tight. I wear an XL shirt and they are tight. My fitted Shirts are getting tight around the belly, and that has never been a problem for me before.

Any comments would be appreciated.

Very Best,

"Onesville"