I have had a bit of time to reflect on my last posting… and as I was walking into work today, I came to a rather unsettling realization.

I tend to think of myself as more athletic than I probably am.

When I was younger, I was an avid soccer and tennis player. I was never really in tip-top shape, but I could perform. I could run a mile without getting out of breath, and short sprints wouldn’t kill me. I used to play 90 minutes of soccer without much problems.

Now I feel my legs getting tired after walking up 2 flights of stairs. Yes, I’m sure this has a lot to do with me being overweight and basically not exercising. And yes, I know that I could probably get back in shape by doing some workouts. But somewhere in the back of my mind, I still feel like I can play 90 minutes of soccer without any problems, even though logically, I know I can’t.

Do you have an overinflated sense of physical prowess? Doesn’t it suck to know that as you’ve gotten older, you’ve lost some of your abilities through lack of use?

I’m pretty sure that I could take most of the people that ride my train. If you put me in the Thunderdome, I truly believe that I would come out victorious. Its not that there aren’t any tough guys, or that it wouldn’t be difficult, but I think given a chainsaw, I could be pretty competitve if my life was on the line. Plus, I’m just crazy like that.

And yes, this is the type of thing I think about with commuting. Sometimes I even scare myself… but then the voices tell me that it will be ok.

Today the train is moving quite slow. Apparently there is a train ahead of us having mechanical difficulties, which makes every other train behind it slow. I don’t know why this suprises me, but it does.

On a side note, I am posting this from the tri-rail train to West Palm Beach on my Samsung Blackjack Smartphone (AT&T). Isn’t technology great?

I just got one of those fancy cellphones with the qwerty keyboard and internet access… so I got busy and decided to try posting my first blog post from my samsung blackjack!

Ok… I know I said that my diet started last week. And in some respects, I did start dieting. I started by throwing out all the crap food I had in my house. This wasn’t really that hard, because most of the junk I had was old and needed to be thrown out anyway.
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This is kind of a bitter sweet holiday for me. My son lives with his mother in a far-away state, and I don’t get to see him very often. Its great to hear my son on the other end of the telephone saying, “Happy Father’s Day” and that is probably the best gift anyone could ever give me… but its just not the same as if he were here in person. I am grateful with the thought that my son actually loves me, and even though he can’t be here in person, he’s thinking of me.

This is supposed to be a day of celebration, of BBQs and family get-togethers… but as of right now, I’m here in my room playing online poker and typing out a blog posting.

But don’t feel bad for me, I have plans to meet a bunch of friends later this evening to have a “spa day” so-to-speak at a popular spa in Delray Beach… It will probably be just drinking and debauchery, but it just sounds better if you call it a spa-day.

Apparently, I’ve been involve in a trend, without even knowing it. Today, I was surfing through the web, and heard about “fatblogging”… or basically chronicling your weight-loss/gain in blog format. I guess I’m not the only fatty blogger out there.

On ‘fatblogs,’ heavy people weigh in

Ok, its been awhile now since I stopped worrying about my weight, and its starting to bother me again. I’m hovering at about 240 lbs. and it would be nice to get that down a bit.
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