Hanna tonight!

Me, Kevin, & Craig showed up. Craig did really good for his first
time. But left a little earlier. He rode the first 3 trails. Me and
Kevin ended up doing about 8 trail miles! My friggin saddle broke
again, well didnt break just bent, and I am still having issues with
the drive train. I am going to take it back up there tomorrow morning after I teach the concealed weapons class at shooters.

Doctors appt results

Since April 1, 2009

Cholesterol

LDL: 88 down from 120
HDL: 33 up from 28
Triglycerides: 55 down from 100

BP:142/72 down from 150

EKG: Came back perfect.

Weight: 343 down from 400!!


That’s from taking 500mg Niacin (Nicotinic Acid), 2400-4800mg omega3, and a multi vitamin a day.

Wii Fit

Played with the Wii tonight for the first time. I couldn’t use the Wii fit because I am over the 330lbs weight limit but I was able to use the Wii active which was an awesome workout!! I played it over at my buddy Eddies place and Dana even played the Yoga in the Wii Fit part and did really well. I really want one when I get under 330. Ride tomorrow at Hanna Park!!

Lunch time ride!

We went 10 miles, looked like it was going to rain the entire time but never did. The clouds just made it nice and not as hot. Me, Jim, Kevin, & Aaron went today. We are still on for Hanna tomorrow, we’ll see how many show up! Down to 343lbs. Today! Doctors appt. Tomorrow hope I get good news about my HDL.

Last night's ride with Kevin

20 Miles!! Go Kevin! I rode the first 17 on my Trek Road Bike and then got on my mountain bike and did 3 miles worth of trails off road across the street from my house and turned around because it was too wet. Hoping to ride today but it looks like it might rain!

Gym @ Lunch, Ride after Work

1 hour in the gym today at work. Me Kevin and Dana are going to ride at least 16 miles tonight. Then tomorrow at lunch, and then Friday at Hanna is the plan. I guess we will see how much of that happens!

 

The ride today

Just me and Aaron today. Jim was sick and went home early. Kevin has stuff to do at lunch and Todd says that he didn’t know about us riding even though I sent him the email yesterday. We went 10 fast miles. It  was good and hot but we had a good time.

SO lets make some updates

Well I am now with my Girl Friend of almost 2 years Dana. She is amazing.
I am sad to say that i let myself go again and ended up back at 400lbs. I started my weight loss program again on 4/1/09 and as of today am down to 347 again. So this will be the last time. As i am getting older this will get nothing but harder. Luckily right now it is somewhat easy. But I feel like I have dodged a bullet by not being in worse health by now seeing how I lived for so long.

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You can find them other places than just ATI's site There are 3 different models I would defiantly recommend the Plus it has mouse controls and is RF. I couldn’t be happier!

Later,

J.W.

Geting back into it...

Well I haven’t been riding or anything for like 2 weeks. Until last Tuesday when I started riding again. I believe what I did was pull my MCL in my left knee. Not entirely sure on how I did it. It was either at the gym while doing some lower body stuff or riding the day before. I noticed it on early Friday morning at like 3 A.M. I woke up and my knee was hurting like crap, at first I thought that it was just the way I was laying with my knee completely bent with my foot under my right leg. So I straightened it out and went back to sleep. Well when I woke up the next morning my knee didn’t really "hurt" but I could defiantly tell something was wrong it was very uncomfortable to bend my knee and hold it in the air. Walking didn’t bother me much but sitting with my knee bent was aggravating. So I just took it was for a while and went to the gym and just did upper body and cutout the treadmill for a while. Which I think I will still lay off of for another week or so because still being like 310 lbs. running isn’t the greatest thing for my joints.
Other than that I have gotten in to reading and strangely I have read all of the Harry Potter book and to my utter amazement they are awesome, I could not be more impressed, but now I have to wait for the last book to be released and it will probally be awhile.
I copied all the camcorder footage I have ever gotten onto the computer and put them in an .mpg format also, as to safe guard I won’t loose them and also make them more convenient to watch! I will probally be posting some of them on my website soon.
I sold my Yukon last week to an old friend that is now engaged. So now I have just the
GTO until I get me another truck, I think I am going to get like an extended cab 1500 Chevy or something like that just cheap and a truck not a SUV. With that money I refinanced my car and paid half of it off!! And got rid of the moronic GMAC Idiots, I hated doing business with them and will never do it again. I am also going to totally redo my 3rd bedroom into like a computer/entertainment room, and I also got some new pimp tight!!!! 19" DVI LCD monitors!!
B.J. one of my friends that had moved to Orlando for 2 years moved back last week also!
Other than that I have been good and just been keeping busy getting stuff around the house and
On my computer organized. So I will now resume the strenuous workout schedule and begin loosing weight again. To reach my goal of 280-300lbs. by Jan 1, 2006.

Later,

J.W.

Just riding along...

Well I have been riding alot lately. Did 24 miles yesterday and even more last week. Been to the gym Mon, Tue, wed, and today. Was going to go outta town this weekend but that plan got smashed by a few things maybe next weekend.
Things are going good still at work we had a cook out today. My buddy B.J. that moved to Orlando a while back is moving back to jax this month, that’s cool. Leeanna is like 4 months pregnant. Daniel had fallen off the earth but has started calling again some what.
This week I am defiantly going to go see the Dukes of Hazzard; I think that is going to be an awesome movie.
Me and Brian also found an awesome place to hang out. It's free also but I can’t tell you where it is cuz then it will be too crowded :).
But other than that my mother is doing alot better and things are going pretty good right now.

Later,

J.W.

By papa...

Well Monday morning at 11:20 my grandfather died from complications from cancer, lung problems etc. He was 84 and had been in the hospital for the past 6 months. Luckily I was there when he passed with my grandmother, uncles and my mother. Even though we weren’t that close it still hits home real hard and I will miss him alot! But it’s for the better; he had been in pain for so long and didn't deserve what he was getting. Also it was a painless passing, they had been worried that it was going to be a painful death but, luckily it wasn’t. I am down to around 310 lbs. I put up some new pictures on my website. www.thelug.com/images/weightloss.html
Things are going great I am still riding and working out all the time. So I just am living life!

Later,

J.W.

Chuapthingy...

Well last night I rode 26 miles on my trek that’s the first real ride I have had on the bike it was great I loved it!! I a down to 315lbs this morning. I had a crazy flat on the goat Monday morning I had like 8 bubbles in the side wall luckily I made it to work ok!! Seeing as how the night before I had an expressway run to 140mph!!
This weekend my grandma calls me up and says I found a kitty and its outside and going to die if you don’t come get it??????????? WTF is that lol. So me and Brian go over there and get the cat and stick it in my tub at home till after dinner and a movie. We named the kitty rocket! Went and saw wedding crashers this weekend twice and I was literally the funniest movie I have ever seen it was awesome I loved it. There is nothing better. The next movie I am really stoked about is Doom with the rock it comes out in Sept. I got my 3rd season of Red Vs. Blue also I love that stuff it is hilarious! Got Richard and Nicole to start going to the gym with me that’s a god send cuz it was getting boring going by myself now that Jeff quit and doesn’t workout any more. Hung out with josh and Mel again this weekend, and then D.J. later on that night. Head from Daniel and B.J. Also but for god sakes where's Chad he is still MIA I guess he doesn’t love us anymore?? Well I got a raise at work finally and it was about time I need/deserved it!! Well back to work!

Later,

J.W.

Am I turning into a roadie

Well Saturday I picked up my new bike I ended up getting a Trek 2100 I am very happy with it so far. I haven’t taken it on any long rides yet but what I have done I love. I still have my hoss dee lux but I just wanted something for a different type of workout! I have still been working out, my gym was closed this weekend and they opened the new one this morning so I will give it a try this afternoon. It is supposed to be like 10 times bigger it is in an old food lion. It takes up the whole place! I am down to 323 lbs. as of this morning. There are pics of the bike at my website at www.thelug.com/images/hossdeelux.html . With the rain and everything I haven’t been able to do any yard work lately so I still have alot of branches sitting in the back yard. I will catch up on that soon!

Later,

J.W.

Howdy yall!

Hello, well it has been a few weeks since I have posted anything. So let me get up to speed, I was at a small plateau for the last few weeks, it started before my birthday and it didn’t help that my birthday came around and I took the week off. I am down to 328lbs now. I have still been riding and going to the gym. I haven’t been able to do any yard work really because it has rained for the last 2 weeks basically. But all the main bushes are cut down all I have to do is haul the rest of them out to the front to be picked up! Not too much other major stuff has been going on just getting ready for the cruise in Sept. The 3 day weekend was nice also! I put some pics of my truck up on the website in the pictures section, and added some other pics also. Well I am getting back up to speed now so catch yall later.

J.W.

22 WOW!!

Well today is my birthday. I turn 22 I know that isn't old but man I remember turning 12 hehe. I have been riding alot and kind of calmed down on the gym a little until i drop a little more weight, but I am still going steady, I am at 330lbs. right now. I plan on doing alot this weekend. Sorry I haven’t posted alot lately I have actually been doing a decent amount at work. I will update soon.

Later,

J.W.

21 wet miles :)

Well last night I had one of the best rides I have had in a long time I spun most of the time giving myself a great workout. I had the leg burn come back I hadn’t had in a long time. We ended up riding 21 miles and about 5 of it was in the wet dirt lol. It was great. Sold my laptop yesterday and I have had it for 1.5 years and the first night the other guy has it he gets a virus and I have to friggin fix it blah! So that’s what I am doing at work today! Yeah. Well back to work and fixing a computer fun fun!

Later,

J.W.

And the verdict is...

Not that I really even cared but I was really surprised that he was found innocent on all 10 counts, I thought that he would be found guilty on at least the giving minors alcohol. But o well I never thought that he molested the kids but I do think that he is a strange, strange man!! Because of the nasty rain I haven’t been doing a whole lot lately. I haven’t been able to do any lawn work, ride my bike since last Thursday; I haven’t been to the gym much either trying to wait for breaks in the rain to do the lawn. If it doesn’t rain today I will probally go riding. I am holding steady with my weight at the current time at 336lbs. Helped my friend brian all last weekend on his car trying to get the new motor in on time so he could go to work on Monday, we did it!
I saw Mr. & Ms. Smith on Sunday it was a great movie, I really enjoyed it and will probally go see it again. I haven’t had a chance to see Star Wars EP.3 again but I want to see it again before it leaves the theatre.
I am going to start back at the gym this week hopefully if I can get some of this yard work done if not then I will have to go on the weekends!
Well I guess I will get back to work it is flag day here and we are all wearing our flags, so not wearing a work shirt is nice for once. Well back to work later yall.


J.W.

Go fast errrrrr... I mean slow...

Well I got the dents all fixed on the GTO Dent wizard guy did a great job can’t even tell!!
Went to the track last night, the weather was super crummy it was in the 90's with 100% humidity, muggy, with fog in the air. Shouldn't even have been racing it was so nasty. Car went 13.828 @ 102.86 with me driving. With a lighter driver the car went 13.6 @ 104.15. Most people were running about half a second off! But regardless I learned how to launch and race my car better and I had some fun.
I picked up a garage door opener for my shop yesterday and will be putting that in this weekend!! That should be lots of fun and interesting to see how many things I can screw up!!
Went riding Tuesday night had a good time rode about 15 miles in the dirt it. We are supposed to go riding tonight and I will be going to the gym tomorrow.
I will also be starting my new experimenting on the home link system being installed in my GTO I will keep everyone updated!
Weight is holding steady at ~335lbs I will hit the gym and bike harder next week and get back to a more rigorous schedule. And I am still eating right! I am just in a slight plateau which will take a few days to jump out of.
Well back to work.

Later,

J.W.

Another day another...

Well last week wasn’t that all exciting. Went to the gym everyday, went riding twice, worked that’s about all I did. I got my new rims on my bike for the off road tires they are real nice.
I am currently debating on what to do about my truck situation, I think that I want to get a quad cab 4 door 2500 Silverado, instead of my Yukon, I want a 4 wheel drive and it would be nice to put alot of cash in my pocket. I guess we will see what happens.
I am also thinking about putting a stereo in my new car, it is hard to listen to a factory system after using my system in my truck for so long they make a nice head unit that I want for the gto I am thinking about getting from Kenwood. I am going to do some yard work this week before the trash man comes to get the yard trash so it doesn’t sit there fro a week again.
My weight is down to 337lbs things are going good now I just need to bump it to that next level.
Night before last some little ****ers found it necessary to paintball my cars in my front yard well luckily I keep the gto in the garage right! HAHA of course not I left it out because I was driving it to work the next day, well I got a nice little dent in the rear quarter from one of there fing paint ball it isn’t horrible but it is the point of the matter. The dent guy here at work is going to take it out tomorrow for free. I will find those little *****'s and give them a piece of my mind... Well back to work.

Later,

J.W.