Guest Post : Sean Platt / Wednesday Weigh-In April 22, 2009
We have a special guest today at Blog To Fit, none other than Writer DadSean Platt. And he has a confession to make.
I was fit once, before love reduced me to a soft gooey middle for the second time.
When I first met my wife, I was at my ideal body weight. Always lean and rarely hungry, I felt like I had enough energy to climb a mountain and run down the other side. I went to the gym several times a week and never missed a workout. I ate well and made sure to get great sleep every night. In short, all cylinders were firing and life was good.
My wife and I were courting one another and though this was a magical time, it didn’t take long for our constant meals out to become constant meals in. My wife Cindy is a sensational cook. One of her favorite things to prepare is pasta, which also happens to be one of my favorite things to eat. Because she is a wonderful soul, Cindy would spend nearly every night making me a pound of pasta in sauces I would have previously dreamt of had I had the imagination to crave something so amazing. Because I often endeavor to match her generosity, I would spend nearly every night inhaling noodles to memory.
All semblance of a balanced diet melted alongside my once trim middle. My relaxed life fit my new relaxed jeans.
A few years passed until we found ourselves pregnant with our first child. Double doses of delicious for her meant double doses of delicious for me. I was eating for three after all (I think I actually said that once).
I remember the moment I knew beyond shadow I needed a change. I was standing beneath a scalding shower as I realized I was knocking on 30’s door and needed to do a better job of staying in shape. I could look at my family tree and easily extrapolate the girth of my own trunk if I didn’t do something to change my patterns.
So I did. It was back to the gym with rhythm, routine, and renewed dedication. I carried my commitment until it grew too heavy, right around the month we moved into a new house and opened a preschool.
It’s been lying forgotten on the floor since.
I was able to ignore it for a while without it making much of a difference. My days were spent on my feet, chasing toddlers and bouncing all about. But in the last six months as I’ve transitioned to the life of a writer, I’ve started to spend the majority of my daytime minutes sitting (and sometimes eating peanut M&M’s).
Guess who’s getting fat?
Uh… yeah, that would be me. But I had another one of those epiphanies over the weekend. No more for me. I’m ridding myself of sugar for at least a month and I won’t miss a single day of exercise for a long, long while.
No one will ever live inside this body but me, it will be mine until the second it produces breath no longer. I know I must to all I can to keep it running clean, yet am sometimes so willing to trade a momentary surge of false satisfaction for the forever my body so rightly deserves.
One of my best friends recently said, “forever isn’t as long as it used to be.”
He’s absolutely right.
Sean Platt is a dad, ghostwriter and man who knows what he needs to do.
Now, for the weekly Wednesday Weigh-In
David Wright
This week, I had birthday cake. Lots of birthday cake to celebrate my son’s second birthday.
I told myself I would be good, but I am powerless in the presence of cake. I’m like Tara with her chocolates!
And once I had the cake, I was already off the wagon and what’s another few bad food choices? Like those chips we bought for the party? Man, we bought a lot of chips!
So, yeah. Shame is my name this week.
However, I am glad to say the cake is now gone. And I’ve got no other junk food in the house, so everything is back on track.
The stats: David Wright
- Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 350 lbs.
- Goal weight: 250 lbs.
- Weight 2 weeks ago: 326 lbs.
- Weight today: 326 lbs.
- Amount lost this week: 0 lbs.
- Total lost since Nov. 19: 24 pounds
Tara Cain
I’ve had a disaster this week. I’ve been nosedeep in work and so end up thinking ‘bugger, I haven’t eaten’ and so snack on the first thing that comes into view when I crawl into the kitchen.
It’s usually toast or a biscuit or a chunk of cheese which I wolf down so fast that a mere half an hour later I’m starving again.
I haven’t exercised, I’ve grabbed a chocolate bar on the way out of the petrol station to ‘keep me going’ and I’ve basically turned into a large gelatinous blob.
Getting over this Easter slump has been harder thatn I thought. I ‘meant’ to go to a pilates class today but went to lunch with a friend instead. I ‘meant’ to walk into town, but watered the garden instead.
I need to get off my fat ass and get motivated again!
The stats:
- Starting weight Wed. Nov.19: 168 lbs.
- Goal weight: 140 lbs.
- Weight last week: 164 lbs.
- Weight today: 164lbs
- Amount lost this week: 0lb
Now it’s your turn. Share your success (or setback) story with us.
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Hey – no gain is good!
I’m down 2.4 lbs from last week. Still have some vacation poundage to lose – but I’m getting there! Details in comment luv.
Today I walked all over hell and creation for the biggest neighborhood rummages in our town. 3 hrs (with hills) baby! Can’t wait to see what the scale shows for that tomorrow!
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I applaud you guys for making your weight-loss goals public. It has a way of holding you accountable. I’m in the same situation which is why I started my blog a year ago. I returned to a long-time love of mine, cycling, to help shed the poundage. Good luck in your goals.
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Great post, Sean!
I’m holding around the same… a couple gained last week, a couple lost this week. My body fat, which has been dropping, seems to have leveled out. It’s time to start upping the exercise (of which I’m not doing enough of).
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Sean – I wish I had seen the writing on the wall when I was younger and that I would have maintained the motivation and dedication that I once had. It doesn’t get easier as you get older. It only gets easier when you stick to it — but it’s always easy to slip back to bad habits.
David – I have been so tempted this week to stop at the grocery to buy a big box of ice cream — just for me. I know what you mean about being powerless, so I just drove on by, barely, without giving in. I can only imagine what my weight would have done if I had given in — and I’m NOT dieting, just limiting my snacks.
Tara – I may be going back to work for a period of time and that poses a risk to my fitness program. I’ll be “nose deep in work” and the snack machines will be a very short distance away — I’ll be just a couple of doors down from my old office which was right across from the snack machines. I may have to do an hour at the gym before work and another hour after work just to keep from slipping back — assuming that the contract is approved.
I slipped a little this week. Only made it to the gym 4 days and I gained 1.4 lbs.
However, I also made some decent progress. Details in CommentLuv.
Started November 1, 2008 at 285.6 lbs
Last week = 263.4 lbs.
This week = 264.8 lbs.
Difference = + 1.4 lbs.; -20.8 lbs since starting
Initial goal: 210 lbs.; 54.8 lbs. to go!
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Hey, nice to see you here Sean!
I joined the gym 9 months after baby, and now I have absolutely no excuses not to go. You see, I actually have no choice because I became a fitness instructor so if I don’t show up, a lot of people get *really, really* mad at me.
Obviously, I made that choice with a clear mind.. and it’s about turning something into a habit. Teaching as a habit, is one that will be extremely hard to break, and, the side effect is that I absolutely love the journey I take my class on week after week.
So, good for you in taking 30 days off sugar. Good luck to you.
Daisy
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I’ve been struggling with my weight since puberty and its definitely winning the battle. My heaviest at 5 ft 2 inches has been 185.3 lbs. I am now inching around 160lbs partially due to being laid off of work in February (being depressed) and switching to a different form of birth control. I love to cook, love to eat, and love to write about food.
Like most people, diabetes and heart disease are prevalent in my family and now at 31 years of age, I’m starting to get serious about living better. The only problem is that the cake, pizza, pastas, burgers, and fries taste better than ever. Three years ago I quit smoking and at that time was at my all time thinnest of 135 pounds. I haven’t been able to get down to that weight since. But I will keep trying by eating better and exercising.
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Great motivational post Sean, really appreciate your candid words.
I gave up sugar for 3 weeks of Lent and boy did I learn what it does to your system. I went through headaches, moods, feeling like crapola – but none of that amounted to a whole hill of beans when you compare it to how I felt when I had sugar again after the 3 week break. Oh boy!
I think it’s a great thing to do and am going to climb right back on board with you.
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Enjoyed your post, Sean. Who would have thought you could make weight gain such a great, literary read!
I fell back into some of my old habits of eating sugar-filled desserts this week, and the result was no weight loss. I think the only reason there was no weight gain is because I managed to work out every day, even twice on some of the days. Seems I have no problem sticking to an insane exercise routine (kickboxing, weightlifting, spinning, plyometrics, you name it), but man am I challenged when it comes to giving up the sweets! I love, love, love them!
Sean, you mentioned knocking on 30′s door and realizing you needed to get in shape. I used to tell myself that when I hit 40, I’d finally stop eating like a kid. Well that ship has left the harbor. Based on my actions this past week, I’m starting to think it might be closer to 50!
Enough negativity. Next week, I will do better.
Starting weight – 132
Loss this week – 0
Current weight – 128
Loss so far – 4 lbs.
Goal weight – 120 (but 125 is more realistic)
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Hi Sean, great post. David and Tara – count me back in! I have regained almost all of the weight I lost last year (20lbs) and I’m really embarrassed to admit that. I could use excuses (bad experience with ex-husband was the jump off point from the diet) but the fact is: I am a fat blob. I’ll be doing a weigh in on Wednesday…first I have to find a weighbridge to use.
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Hi Sean, I enjoyed reading your post. Weight gain seems to be a side effect of many happy (and not so happy) marriages. I was 55kgs when I got married and a few years down the track I’m now pushing 70kg. Eating the same as my husband was my serious downfall, along with sudden access to the tools of laziness – a car and financial means.
David and Tara – I’m with you on the snowball effect. I’ve not eaten well over Easter and a nasty virus knocked out my ability to exercise. It seemed once I started down the slippery slope it was difficult to get back up again.
I am on track and reminding myself *why* I’m doing this, is key for me. I need to be healthier for myself and for my family, we deserve better than someone who is tired and unfit, feels sorry for herself and can’t keep up.
Rachel’s last blog post..Off the Couch – Fitness for Free
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Great post Sean! Jason and I are doing the same thing right now- getting our butts back in shape. I just signed up for a Zumba class with a friend. It’s so hard to find the time with little ones, but you are so right that we owe it to our loved ones to take care of our bodies. I have neglected mine for too long. I went from Marathon runner (40+ miles per week) pre-Gus to zero exercise post-Hollis. We went bowling on Friday and Jason and I are sore all over today…that’s a sure sign we’re out of shape! Thanks for the motivation!!!!
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