Results. Or Lack Thereof.
Other than my preliminary research, I have been working at this for 5 solid months. I realize this is a project measured in years, so I am just getting started. I also realize that when I get to a certain point, I have to make this more sustainable so I do it all the time. I can say that the exercising and dieting has gotten easier than at first. Cuz it was no pile of cupcakes to get started! (Gawd! I miss cupcakes!)
Inspiration
Alan Ritchson from Reacher
I do have a few confessions to make. Some of my inspiration comes from a few people. Don’t get me wrong. I don’t EVER aspire to look like these guys. I will be happy losing a spare tire and not calling the paramedics when I look at a treadmill. But you find hope where you can get it.
Alan Ritchson, who plays Jack Reacher on the Amazon series Reacher is one. Besides being a monster at 6’5″ and about 240 lbs, he seems like a genuinely nice guy who openly admits he is addicted to cookies. Who doesn’t love a muscle-bound lunk with a cookie addiction! Married to the same woman for 20 years. A grown-up haircut and no visible tattoos, I literally have to peel Melinda off the TV every time he takes his shirt off.
In OUR Family?
Kaysen Fisher, my great nephew (well, maybe an ‘okay’ nephew!)
One of my other sources of inspiration is a little closer to home. My great-nephew, Kaysen Fisher, son to my niece Lisa Fisher.
I don’t know what she fed this kid as a child, but he swelled right up.
Kaysen Fisher
Proof positive he was adopted and has no Metheney DNA in him! Kaysen got into fitness and getting jacked while in football and continues to walk the walk. I have a personal belief that he is an alien from a distant planet and that our atmosphere and gravity seem to agree with him, but that could just be me watching too many old episodes of X-Files. Switched at birth at the hospital. Something! Regardless, this kid is a monster. Am I ever going to come close to this in my old age, oh hell no! But, I’m glad somebody in the family line doesn’t look like a Mr. Potato Head.
BEFORE
The Ugly Truth
I hope you really enjoy some of these photos. They have pretty much never been seen before (and THAT is NOT an accident!) and will never be seen again. Some of these are from when Melinda and I got married 27 years ago (obviously the BEFORE pictures) and some a few decades more recent.
TODAY…
I’m over 100 lbs lighter than when Melinda and I got married (and still she kept me!) and nearly 60 lbs lighter than when I started this dedicated obsession 5 months ago. I still have some fat around the mid-section and arms I am determined to lose, but one fitness guru described losing fat as dipping water out of a pool: “you dip it out one bucket at a time, you can’t just dip it out the deep end.” I am down about 3 clothes sizes and the Grinch in me is fighting off buying new clothes, despite Melinda threatening to throw out my old jeans!
TO DATE
55 lbs later. I started this mess on Jan. 23rd and 5 months in, I easily have another 20 to go, but would be happy with 10. Clothes are fitting better and I am getting that Old-Man-Shar-Pei face. (Eh. Brad Pitt wasn’t exactly losing sleep over my looks anyway!) As soon as I get the weight down, then I start building what I have into a leaner body mass. I will up my caloric intake to human levels again and still maintain a caloric deficit, but not as extreme as I am aiming for now. The ultimate goal: not be a fat pig. Until then, I will just have to settle for slightly pudgy, but awesome husband!
Remember this stuff?
- Dec 2023 – A1C (average glucose levels for 3 months) = 7.6 (normal is between 4-5.7), 269 lbs (that doctor’s scale is a lying bastard!)
- Dec 2023 – Triglycerides (cholesterol from meat) = 173 mg/dL (normal = 0-149)
NOW: - March 2025 – A1C 5.6 (BELOW Pre-diabetic!) Dropped 1.1 pts in 2 months and 2 pts in 2.25 years.
- March 2025 – Triglycerides = 98 mg/dL (normal = 0-149), down 75 pts in 1.25 years
- June 2025 – Weight – 214 lbs down 55 lbs in 5 months!
The Journey Continues…
The Journey is only getting started. Only about 20 more years of it left to go. I would love to be the most jacked corpse in a box!
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