Matt's struggle

Wedding Photos!

2006-04-15T16:12:00.000-04:00

Here are the super snazzy wedding photos. The smiling beauty is my new wife. The blond hair lady is my wife's best friend Nan. The guy in the red shirt is my best friend David. David's wife Joy took the pictures. I'm smiling just looking at these.

Laura & I married on St. Patrick's Day!

2006-03-21T15:46:00.000-05:00

Laura and I are married! We eloped on St. Patrick's Day! We're very happy.

Circus

2006-03-09T14:32:00.001-05:00

I went to the circus 2 or 3 weeks ago and had a blast! All the kids there were thrilled. My fiance & I are children at heart and we had such a wonderful time. Bello the clown is so much more. He can do any stunt the other guys can while entertaining.

Quick Updates: Laura still has chicken pox. That sucks.
My eating & exercise battle is still that...a battle.
Received the proofs from 01comics.com for Leather Jacket Guy # 1 in full color. Barry Gregory & co. did a great job coloring & prepressing this baby. Ka-Blam.com is the publisher. Very exciting. More news and preview images to share in the coming weeks.
I'll be at Heroes Con in Charlotte, NC @ the 01comics booth. The convention is June 30-July 2 this year.

This blog

2006-03-08T13:28:00.000-05:00

I'm not sure how often I'll be posting on the blog here. I'm in the midst of driving back and forth to see my fiance about once a week. We'll also be moving into a new apartment in Charlotte in April. Lots of change and traveling going on while working as well.
Who knows though I might end up posting a lot of stuff that hasn't made it on here yet.
Thanks to all who post here, on Digital Webbing, and the folks who email me.

Doing well so far

2006-03-01T10:07:00.000-05:00

Laura is doing alright. She's sleeping a lot but good rest always seems to be the best cure for recovering. She has chicken pox.
We have an English Springer Spaniel that has a ton of energy so I'm in Charlotte taking care of the both of them.

I walked at an awesome little park by a lake Tuesday for an hour. The park is within walking distance of a laundry mat I was using in Asheville. Great location. My eating habits are improving but not 100%. It's a change for life.

Chicken Pox

2006-02-27T13:31:00.000-05:00

My fiance has chicken pox! Crazy. She's doing alright. She had them as a child so two doctors are perplexed. UPDATE: It is chicken pox.

Walking & food update: walked 40 minutes before work today. I ate a chargrilled sandwhich plain, no fries, & diet lemonade. Not a bad start.

Mall walking day two

2006-02-26T12:33:00.000-05:00

Woke up late but managed to walk 22 minutes before work. I will stay after work and walk some more.
More later.

UPDATE: Walked another 55 minutes after work! Yes!

Guns N' Roses: Use Your Illusion I & II

2006-02-26T01:20:00.000-05:00

I'm up late cleaning and writing a bit. I pulled out these two G N' R CDs. I'm almost done with the first disc. Pretty crazy. The rock opera stuff is really overproduced in a good way. That's great but it also has some fun punk/glam rock stuff plus blues tunes. I'm really enjoying Guns N' Roses again. Now if Axl will finish up the new album and release that sucker all would be well.

Walking baby!

2006-02-25T11:48:00.000-05:00

And so it has begun! The great fat-ass walk-off. I started walking @ the mall today before work. It was raining outside so I wasn't going to walk but the mall solves that problem. I might have a mall walker shirt made just for kicks.

I walked for 45 minutes @ a fast pace. Talked to another walker and he says he walks three miles a day with his wife and they stay thin because of walking.

UPDATE SOON

2006-02-16T21:30:00.000-05:00

This blog will be updated soon.
Thank you for your patience.
Matt

Sometimes I'm an ass

2006-02-04T12:50:00.000-05:00

Sometimes I'm an ass. It's true. I was in Charlotte visiting my lovely, talented, & thin fiance. I ate a whole box of Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls over a three day period. I'm on a diet so that sucks of course. The horrible part was that I didn't buy a box to replace the one I finished off. That was rude which was not like me.
Laura called me up to ask me where the box of Swiss Cake Rolls was in the cabinet. I suck. I am drinking lots of water. I walked Elvis our dog about four times a day while I was visiting. Now I'm back in the mountains working so I need to walk on my own. Any regular exercise at this point has to help! Sorry Laura.

Charlotte!

2006-01-30T19:04:00.000-05:00

Little trip to Charlotte. I'm having a blast with Laura my fiance, Elvis the springer spaniel, and two cats Muj & Harley. I'm eating good portions and walking with Laura and Elvis.
Good start. No fast food either.

Going to Charlotte

2006-01-28T16:35:00.000-05:00

I'm going to see my fiance in Charlotte!
I can't wait.
The diet is going alright. I'll be walking Elvis A.K.A. Little Bear (our dog) for the next four days.
Can't wait to see Laura!

Stripes Moment

2006-01-25T12:35:00.000-05:00

I loved the movie Stripes with Bill Murray. One of my favorite actors of all time since I was a child. Well today I had a "Stripes Moment".
I tried to do some push ups at work. Six push ups is not much. Way to go Fat Matt!

I remember growing up I was always skinny and wished I had a gut to rest my Coke can on. Be careful what you wish for.

This has been a difficult week for me diet wise. This is the last of my addictions. I've never been a smoker. I rarely drink anymore. I know I can do it though.

Big thanks to my fiance Laura for being so supportive while also dishing out some tough love! It's hard for me to take that tough love sometimes. I appreciate your patience. "I appreciate 'ya."

Thanks for all the support here and over @ the www.digitalwebbing.com boards. You guys and gals are the best.

Saturday morning update

2006-01-21T12:02:00.000-05:00

No soda or junk food yesterday!
160 oz. of water. That's called a flush! Heh.

Water me down.

2006-01-20T16:29:00.000-05:00

Whoa! So far today I've downed water. No soda. No junk food into my body.
It's 4:27 PM. Only 2 1/2 hours left of my work day.
I do have to pee every twenty minutes but that's what depends are for...right?

Fight Club or Step In to a Slim Jim!

2006-01-19T22:12:00.000-05:00

Ok, a little off subject on the diet for a moment. I was almost in a fight last week.
I sell health insurance in a mall. I know. Anyway, last week I was signing up a young lady and we heard some "loud talk" coming from the cell phone booth next door. There was a young guy upset with a cell phone salesman. This went on for about ten minutes. I asked the young lady I was signing up for health insurance if she would like me to call security. She said no. Well another five minutes goes by and there is loud cursing. I'm a little upset but again the young lady says it's alright. I guess the young dude has had it with the cell phone guys and walks away screaming and cursing at them. In the middle of the mall next to our kiosk. The young lady says, "watch your language". The young punk says to F you B word. That's the one word I can't stand when used to a lady. I'm mad and I say F you. He says F you fatty. Now it's on. I say get out of the mall. He proceeds to say you want a piece of me? I say a piece of what. He's about 5'10" skinny and a little punk. I tell him to leave the mall while walking towards him. He backs up and goes over to the food court to sit down with his friend who looks likes he's mortified to be seen with this nutjob. I see the skinny kid talking and looking over at me. I decide to call security since he isn't leaving but looks like he's up to planning something for revenge or something. The punk then decides to throw the chairs as he leaves. He doesn't throw them at me but still crappy. Cue the mall security five minutes after all the "action" is over. Quite a bit of excitement for the middle of the day at the mall last week. One of my friends Kristy who manages the ProActiv cart said I was smiling the whole time. I forgot I do that. I always have this evil grin when get into a good fight or argument. Oh, the other funny thing is the cell phone guy comes up with the kids name, phone number, and address. The punk bought a phone and felt like he had been wronged. The guy is banned from the mall now.

Setback

2006-01-17T13:55:00.000-05:00

Well, I had a great time in Charlotte visiting my fiance, friends, and family.
I really did horrible on my diet. I gained four and-a-half pounds since last week. I'm up to 292.5 lbs.
I know all I can do is get back on the horse and go at it again.
I'll have at least another post tonight.

The most important person in my life

2006-01-10T22:51:00.000-05:00

Laura is the most important person in my life. I was going to keep this blog only for my weight loss struggle. The real struggle has been for about ten years gaining weight and now trying to dump it. Anyway, Laura and I have been friends for about twelve years now. We have dated off and on during that time. We lived together for a little over a year. I broke up with her due to a "dark period" in my mood disorder. I have been recently diagnosed as bi-polar. I go to therapy. I take one medication and I feel really great. After two months apart I asked her over for supper Christmas night. I asked her to marry me. The crazy woman said yes! I love her. I'll be moving back to Charlotte, NC @ the end of April. The above picture is me, Laura, and Elvis the wonder dog.

Ok, food wise wasn't the best today. Subway 6" meatball sandwhich, dorts, diet lemonade. Snack: big pretzel and water. Supper: nachos from mexican place near house. I did drink one 8 ounce glass of sweet tea. I drank nine 8 oz. glasses of water today. I really need more than that since I'm 288 lbs. & 6'2".

No soda on Monday!

2006-01-10T14:14:00.000-05:00

This is me @ the food court about 15 feet from the kiosk where I work selling health insurance. Check out this link to Digital Webbing dot Com's chit chat forum. Some nice people had serious and funny advice. Digital Webbing Is a great anthology comic book. I had a story in Digital Webbing Presents # 1-3, # 6, & the convention special. Ed Dukeshire is the publisher, a comics pro, and a great guy. http://www.digitalwebbing.com/forums/showthread.php?p=904304#post904304

Saturday and Sunday night

2006-01-09T02:04:00.000-05:00

Well, Saturday night I had Long John Silvers. Fast food fish? I had fried shrimp. Who ever came up with this idea? Why did I buy it? Why did I eat it? Man, that was bad.

Sunday night after work I picked up McDonald's fast food. Time to watch Supersize Me again.

Holding steady

2006-01-08T13:51:00.000-05:00

Well, here I am holding steady @ 288 lbs. I forgot to mention I'm 6'2".
I messed up this week. I've had pizza, chicken, burgers, and the worst ever: fast food seafood.
I'm a chump who's addicted to food.

It has been created

2006-01-01T16:08:00.000-05:00

Well, here it is. I've created this blog to track my success/failures with improving my body in 2006. My goal is to track at least my weekly progress with weight loss and exercise.
Ok, I'm starting off @ 288 lbs today: 1/1/2006.
Wish me luck!
Matt