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Robert's "Time to Go" Clock
goatbert
Alexandria, VaRegistered User regular
Alexandria, VaRegistered User regular
Hello,
I've been working really hard on losing weight. I've lost 164 lbs so far. I started at 576lb and am down to 412lb as of today. I'm tired of missing out on my life - I sacrificed my twenties on the altar of fast food. That was supposed to be the best time of my life and I barely remember any of it because its all a blur of baconators, inactivity and sadness.
I do better when I have goals, though. I've been to every PAX East thus far, and I love it. It is always the highlight of my year, which makes it both wonderful and sad, since I have to wait another year to meet up with my friends. My goal this year is to be under 300lbs by PAX East (March 22nd is the rumor, not sure if there is anything official but that doesn't matter). The point of this post is - I'm trying to find that clock Robert had behind him in "The Office" episode of PATV. I want to have the same thing on the wall in my apartment, to help me remember my goal. I can find a bunch of dinky novelty clocks by Googling, but I just want a big cloak with a bright counter, always reminding me.
Does anyone know where I might find something like that? I did email Robert but he is a busy guy so I figured I'd try here as well.
I have to do this. I'm not losing another year to this.
Thanks!
I've been working really hard on losing weight. I've lost 164 lbs so far. I started at 576lb and am down to 412lb as of today. I'm tired of missing out on my life - I sacrificed my twenties on the altar of fast food. That was supposed to be the best time of my life and I barely remember any of it because its all a blur of baconators, inactivity and sadness.
I do better when I have goals, though. I've been to every PAX East thus far, and I love it. It is always the highlight of my year, which makes it both wonderful and sad, since I have to wait another year to meet up with my friends. My goal this year is to be under 300lbs by PAX East (March 22nd is the rumor, not sure if there is anything official but that doesn't matter). The point of this post is - I'm trying to find that clock Robert had behind him in "The Office" episode of PATV. I want to have the same thing on the wall in my apartment, to help me remember my goal. I can find a bunch of dinky novelty clocks by Googling, but I just want a big cloak with a bright counter, always reminding me.
Does anyone know where I might find something like that? I did email Robert but he is a busy guy so I figured I'd try here as well.
I have to do this. I'm not losing another year to this.
Thanks!
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Also, I don't know if you browse the PAX forums much between PAXs, but you might find this to be of interest: http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/159204/east-pax-east-2013-fitness-group#Item_307.
We also have multiple fitocracy groups going.
Also, 164 lbs? Holy crap that's awesome. Keep it up!
About a month or two now, I made a similar decision to the OP, that it was time to stop sitting around and saying I'd change my life, and instead do it. I'm in the process of losing water weight and fluxuating, just going on walks to start - I went from 456 lbs to sitting around 441 now, depending on the scale.
I'm currently using Allsport GPS to track my walking and MyFitnessPal to track food intake, but the latter is really unintuitive when you have to add each piece of your meal individually. How does fitocracy compare to that? And will such a program help get me into strength exercising? Right now I'm just doing cardio, 45+ minute walks as often as I can find time.
With myfitnesspal, I find almost everything I ever eat in the database already, and decent estimates for home cooked stuff that I usually just roll with and call it good. It usually only takes maybe a minute or two after a meal using my phone. I figure at -1000 calories a day, I'm figure I face a bigger risk of just getting sick of the tedium and quitting if I calculate all my recipes to the calorie, than the risk I face by being off by 100 calories or whatever at the end of the day using the built in estimates.
As for strength training, I am the worst possible person to ask as I have multiple congenital heart defects which more or less prohibit me from doing much, if any, strength training. I'm pretty much doing 100% cardio. While reading up on all this, I hear a lot about a training program(as in routine, not as in an app) called Starting Strength as a decent place to start with strength training, but like I said, I've never done anything with it myself.
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Thanks! And thanks to everyone else. I'm going to check out the PAX fitness thing.
maybe, it's like 550 bucks though so...
Not exactly what I wanted but better than the $300 ones I finally found that looked like the exact clock. Thanks for the help everyone. Going to finally check out that fitness thread now.
I echo Shogun's sentiment 100%
I maxed out at 360lbs and I felt absolutely horrible. I got winded so easily adn was exhaused all the time. and I am just now getting to 330lbs and it's getting better. I wish you all the luck in the world.
fantastic job so far
Thank you!