Alpha Review

Benefits…… After dieting for a while I think we all need to remember the benefits of loosing weight to help fend off boredom and complacency. Based on SS’s last blog, she sounds bored and un-motivated. So as I thought about her last blog, I looked at my own progress and whether I am seeing some of the benefits.

Benefits that we are all shooting for are pretty obvious, they include, to feel better, to look better, to get into smaller clothes, better health, and of course better sex. And then there are specific personal things that you want to achieve. Anyone who would like to add to the list please do. In reviewing our progress we tend to focus the short term, namely what that nasty scale says. It is good to look at these overall benefits also.

As I review these, I find some significant progress:

• Do I feel better? Most definitely!
• Do I look better? I think so, at least I feel like I don’t look quite as much like a whale.
• Smaller Clothes? Pants size from a tight, barely get them button, ready to pop open 44 to a comfortable 42. Shirt size, wore the smaller Scoutmaster shirt last night and it didn’t feel like the buttons were going to pop off.
• Better Health? Took my blood pressure this morning, and for the first time in months it was down to where it should be! 123/84 (I’ve had trouble getting the diastolic below 90, finally!)
• Better Sex? Yup! More stamina and flexibility, and contrary to some comments on this blog, no shrinkage!!
• Personal Goals: I have three big ones. First I have Sleep Apnea. I know if I loose weight I can get that under control and get off the CPAP pump. This is important because it makes camping with the Scouts and sleep on the boat much more enjoyable. Still have a way to go on this one but I’m encouraged with my sleep patterns lately, more restful. Second, to ride the Millennium Force rollercoaster at Cedar Point again. Last year in August I was at Cedar Point with the Scouts and I was too fat to fit in the coaster chair and get the seat buckled. It has one of the smallest seats in the park. I’ve road it before, and I will ride it again, cause it is a lot of fun!! I figure I’ll be close in about 15 lbs. less than now. Third, next year I have signed up to chaperone the Scouts to the BSA Seabase in the Bahamas Summer 2007. I need to take pretty strenuous physical before I go. So I need to be in great shape. I’m feel right now for the first time since I signed up that I am making good progress towards that long term goal.
  

That is where the Alpha Male is at. Let’s hear how the rest of you are doing?