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The next ques­tion on Form­Spring is,

“WHEN IS YOUR GODDAMNED BIRTHDAY!?”

I think I know who this one is from.

I hon­estly haven’t been excited about my birth­day since I grew too big for the ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese. (Hey, the two-story one in San Jose was amaz­ing!) Too bad I can’t be six for­ever like Calvin. My 21st might have been a slight excep­tion to this, but even then, I didn’t do much. I’m really not a “Super Sweet 16″ kinda guy. It’s just another day and I want to do the same thing I want to do every day… just chill with some good friends and fam­ily if pos­si­ble. No cake, no presents. Includ­ing “BERF-DAY PRE-SENT!!!”, Vince T.

Hon­estly, I feel like birth­days are just mark­ers to show I’m one step closer to the end. Weird Al states it best:

I usu­ally get more intro­spec­tive and moody about how much I still want to do. And now it’s start­ing all over again, Alice H. Thanks.

But to answer your ques­tion, I don’t think God ever damned my birth­day, so I don’t have a god-damned birthday.

Time for another Hacker’s Diet update.

Keep going! 10.9 lbs to go!

Weekly loss: 2.2 lbs. — Daily deficit: 1118 calo­ries.
You will reach your goal of 155 lbs on 2009-05-07. (239 days early!)

So far, I’ve lost 34.5 lbs of mea­sured weight (4.7 lbs in the last week) and 29.2 lbs of “real weight” (2.6 lbs in the last week). When I was doing the fam­ily chal­lenge, I had slid back to 15 pounds lost again.

Haven’t fully imple­mented the diet plan I men­tioned last week, but I was try­ing to watch the white carbs. Being sick helped me lose weight again. I should just try to be sick all the time.

The 100 Push-ups and 200 Sit-ups Pro­grams are going alright, although I am hav­ing more trou­ble with fin­ish­ing sets now. That might be partly because of the sick­ness, and the fact that I pushed the pro­grams back a day because of it. Don’t know how things will go with the exhaus­tion tests at the end of this week.

One day at din­ner this week, my par­ents com­mented on my weight loss. They said I looked thin­ner over­all, but that my gut was still big. Not sure how to take that. Thanks also to Will N, Michow, and Vince T for your com­pli­ments. Espe­cially Michow, who empha­sized that my gut was smaller.

Time for another Hacker’s Diet update.

Keep going! 13.5 lbs to go!

Weekly loss: 1.9 lbs. — Daily deficit: 970 calo­ries.
You will reach your goal of 155 lbs on 2009-05-15. (231 days early!)

So far, I’ve lost 29.8 lbs of mea­sured weight (2.5 lbs in the last week) and 26.6 lbs of “real weight” (2.1 lbs in the last week). When I was doing the fam­ily chal­lenge, I had still only lost 16 lbs at this point.

I still had some prob­lems with por­tion con­trol, but doing bet­ter than last week. More willpower still needed, though. I’m also going to try this diet plan. I’ve done some of it already by cut­ting out fatty meats and not drink­ing calo­ries (except my pro­tein shake, but that counts as a meal for me). Luck­ily, I don’t get sick of foods eas­ily, so the lack of vari­ety shouldn’t be much of a prob­lem for me. Hope­fully I can get back on track to hit my goal before my birthday.

The 100 Push-ups and 200 Sit-ups Pro­grams are still going strong, and I think I’ve got­ten some other peo­ple to try them. (I’ve heard of Will N, Vince T, and Joe M check­ing them out.) If you are doing the pro­grams, drop me a com­ment and let me know how it’s going!