I’m Stuck

I'm Stuck!

I’m stuck. I’m stuck on 246 and I’ve been there for three days. I’ve eaten more and I’ve eaten less but there’s nothing I can do. The scale doesn’t budge.

Sure, I’m down eight pounds in ten days but it’s frustrating not being down ten pounds in ten days. I was losing a pound a day until two days ago. I feel like I’m heading down an upwardly moving escalator.

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My Poor Uncle Sam

Uncle Sam

Wow, for the first time in my life I am ahead of the curve on something!

I must be the last guy in the world to know about Twitter, the 30-Day Blog Challenge and something called an iPhone. I was even late to the South Beach Diet supper table. The book has been on the market for six years and I just picked up a copy two weeks ago.

Before you know it, they will be making cars that can run on gasoline and batteries!

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Finders Kippers

I Like Kippers

Okay, I’m old and I’m fat. I thought I had eaten and drank just about everything available to me in America… but this morning I had kippers for the first time.

“Could we have kippers for breakfast, mummy dear, mummy dear?” — Supertramp

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Mr. Beer Belly Goes Global

Going Global!

Wow! I was just looking at this site’s analytics (okay, so I don’t have a life). It appears that MrBeerBelly.com is starting to get a lot of visitors. (Thank you everyone!)

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. As far as I can tell, beer is the “Official Beverage of Planet Earth”. Just go to BevMo and you’ll see that just about every country on the planet has their own brand.

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A Week Without Pizza or Beer

Pizza Delivery

Phase 1. Week 2. Day 1. Down 6.6 pounds. But who’s counting?

This South Beach Diet thing really seems to be working. A few years ago I was on Atkins and I lost about 35 pounds but I dreaded every minute of it. Steak, cheese and pork rinds for months on end. Ugh! At first it sounded like redneck Heaven but after two weeks of it I had fantasies of running the local Domino’s Pizza kid off the road and stealing his warm red bag of pizza. Yes, I went from dreams of Angelina Jolie to pizza jacking. So it was inevitable that I would fail at Atkins.

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