Kevin W. McCarthy

The Professor of On-Purpose

Health & Fitness

Ready, Set, Lose

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Last evening my Take Shape For Life food arrived.  This morning I weighed in at 230 pounds on my scale.P1020932
I don’t have the nerve to show my "before" pictures yet.  Vanity, I guess.  But I decided to at least post this photo of my scale.  Nice feet, huh?

I decided to track my weight.  In talking with Lori I discovered Take Shape For Life provides a free web site to track a number of things.  Lori give me my log in information.  I’ll dig around there and see what it holds.  Chances are I’ll just use a spreadsheet.

Today I begin to Take Shape For the Rest of my Life (I hope).

Gotta lose some weight – Part 3

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Perhaps I’m obsessing about this.  I’m glad I have time to prepare
myself mentally before starting the Take Shape For Life program.  Once
my food arrives, I think I’ll be in the right frame of mind.  I feel a
lot like getting ready to play "the big game" as in sports.  There’s a degree of performance anxiety mixed with wanting to get out there to prove to myself I can do this.

True confessions here.  The first 35 years of my life I was an athlete.  It was a part of my vision of myself.  Since I hurt a knee and stopped competing on the tennis court, I’ve gradually added weight every year.  Now at age 53, I find myself with all this extra weight.  Somehow, I’ve adjusted my self vision to accommodate being a fat person.  None of this, in my case, has to do with genetics, hormones, or whatever.  It all has to do with choices… bad choices.

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Gotta lose some weight

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I HAVE to lose some weight! January 1, 2008, I weighed 239 pounds!  On a 5' 9" frame that is a lot of weight even for someone with a stocky build. Since January, I've been exercising and eating better. To a degree I was successful and got down as low as 225, but tended to hover in the 228 to 232 range. Better, but not good enough. I have a killer sweet tooth. Something had to change. A couple of days ago, I committed myself to…

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Tennis and On-Purpose®

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I was watching Wimbledon and marveling at Roger Federer’s play.  It seems all of life for me has lessons about being on-purpose and this was no exception…

Roger Federer
Men’s #1 Player in the World

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