Upcoming trip

Well...it is that time again. This summer marks the 20th anniversary of my departure from the Davis County Community School District. Yep....we all know what that means....I'm old.

Carolyn and I are leaving soon to attend the reunion. We fly into Des Moines and then travel on down to Davis County to have an all-too brief party at some party cabin in the woods.

I haven't seen the majority of my classmates since graduation. I did attend the 10th reunion and that had a decent turnout, but I hadn't been to any of the other reunions. It doesn't help that I currently live about 1500 miles away.

The organizers for the reunion put together a Facebook group, so I have felt the need to face the evil that is Facebook so I can pretend to communicate with my classmates. So far about the best I've done is send and recieve friend requests. I did get in touch with my old neighbor and swap some brief "what have you been up to for the last 22 years". Twenty-two years since she left our sophmore year and didn't actually graduate with the rest of us.

Could be an interesting trip......

Brief Update

I know, I know.....I haven't been posting much lately. I'd love to say it's because I've been having an online affair with my Xbox360, but the truth of the matter is I've simply been very busy at work.

Seriously......I think I've taken one lunch in the last two weeks, and I usually squeeze in a work errand while I'm at it.

Fortunately for me, I really don't need to eat lunch much anymore. After my boss lost something like 80 pounds on his diet, he "encouraged" me to see his doctor and undertake the same diet. It's not really a big secret: I'm fat.

And by fat I mean I was 5'10" (Well.....5'9 & 3/4") and 270 pounds. Now I was considered "obese" back in the Air Force at 189 pounds. Since I started my diet I've lost about a pound a day and I weighed in this morning at 236 and change. My doc thinks that I should probably be 210 or so. That suprised me, but she has been doing some math on the subject while the Air Force's Fatboy Program wasn't so much math, but "cross-reference your height and the difference between you neck and waist measurements on this 1950 insurance chart".

That really wasn't a joke......

Anyway, I've got about another month to go, assuming that my weight loss is steady. It helps to go to the gym, but when work is so hectic that I'm missing lunch and taking work home.....that's hard to do.

Details on my diet....probably should throw that out there. I'm taking some synthetic growth hormone twice a day and eating 500 calories a day. Yep, 500 calories a day. I haven't really been hungry, which is a "side-effect" of the diet. I basically eat two meals consisting of one fruit, one vegetable, and 3.5-4 ounces of lean protein. It's not just any fruit, vegetable, and protien, but "approved" foods.

Very typical day of eating:
Apple or orange around 11 AM
1 Cup of non-fat cottage cheese seasoned liberally with Tomato, Basil, & Garlic Mrs. Dash and some hotsauce around 1 PM
A cup of salad with some "everything-free" dressing* around 3 PM
A chicken breast sauteed in one blended tomato (with Habenero, garlic, and spices) around 7 PM
Another apple or orange around 9 PM

That's it. I've been blessed to find in the diabetic section of the store some dressing that is carb-free, sugar-free, gluten-free, calorie-free, and probably something-else free....and it tastes pretty good. It's on the list of stuff I'll be eating when I'm off the diet.