First off I have to sadly admit that it took me a shocking amount of time to design the above graphic thumbnail picture for this post. My desktop publishing days are long behind me and either the Pixlr site that I use or Mildred herself is showing signs of some compromise, but there was some definite lag when dealing with multi-layer complex font designs on top of background imagery. Not sure where the problem lies. But the real problem is me. With my achy wrist, and my impatient attitude, not to mention my lack of familiarity with the tools, I'd be fired on my first day at any half decent web graphics design studio for my incompetence for sure.
What is Operation Epic Twenty you may ask? Well, it starts today, April 30th and continues on through, at least, the day my feet, clad in their new $200 pair of custom-made diabetic athletic shoes, step across the figurative rope that has just figuratively dropped, allowing me through the main gate of Epic Universe on June 2nd.
And what is this month-long journey you ask? Well that's where the "Twenty" comes in. It's my endeavor and determination to go from my current weight of 294 pounds to at least 274 pounds. 20 pounds in 33 days.
"That's crazy," you may say, "it can't be done!" To which I point to this post and retort "Oh but it has been done before, behold the proof!"
But of course, the big factor then, if you read the post from 2013, is I had my good old blue and white Capsule O' Confidence, the Rainbow Magic. The exercise, portion control, careful calorie counting, healthy food options, I guess I can do all of that, oh, I almost forgot, as I also mentioned in that post when I mention "pink cloud," abstinence of alcohol; well, we'll just see about that, but I guess I can promise to keep it at low levels.
I am at least adding the other blue pill to my regimen, Alli. Yep. I still had 44 pills left over from the last time I bought a bottle. That'll last me 22 days figuring two meals a day, one pill per meal. I figure I can also pop some metformin PRN, I always have plenty of that to go around.
The new shoes I mentioned, (by the way, insurance paid more than 75% of the cost so I only paid about 45 bucks for these) are very, very nice, comfy and spiffy looking sneakers which really help my walking since they're not only diabetic, but beefed up with orthotics and Morton Extensions for my hallux rigidus issues. So now I have no excuse to not get out and do some daily walking, right?
In the very least, I should be able to pull out that little cycle exercise contraption.
We'll see how this all goes. This isn't the first time I've tried to pin weight loss goals on wanting to get my butt on theme park rides before. I wasn't successful that time though. But like I love to quote the original Hulk roller coaster "This time I think it's going to work!"
But even if I get halfway there and only lose 10 pounds, it should put me in better standing to at least get on several of the rides. Methinks even if successful in losing the full twenty pounds, at 6'1", 274 lbs., Stardust Racers will still be a challenge.