But my Patriots are going back to the Super Bowl so I really have nothing to complain about this week.

Slowly but surely moving in the right direction.

This one is my new favorite. I still don't know how the song goes, but this becomes an instant classic at the 2 minute mark.

This is not trick photography, and this is not the same photo from last week. This is a photo I took just a few minutes ago.

The bad news is, I didn’t LOSE anything. The good news is, even after the bad weekend I had, I didn’t GAIN anything. So, if I can just be that much better this week and weeked, I’m bound to lose something.

This past weekend I didn’t work out at all - but I was back in the gym tonight and will be tomorrow and Wednesday as well. Thursday night I’m playing virtual golf with my buds so there is no gym that night.

Friday night I’ll be back in the gym - Saturday, if I do get in it’s before the Patriots game. And Sunday, back to the gym.

Hopefully next week’s number is a little smaller.

Just a little…

Mozzarella sticks, couple steak tip salads, pizza with football, sub for lunch. Yeah, not a good weekend. Oh, and I didn’t hit the gym all weekend. The most exercise I did was go to Salisbury Beach with my wife and dog for a walk - so here is som proof of some physical movement…

Not really looking forward to the weigh-in tonight…

Well, I didn’t go work out tonight like I planned - but as promised here is the first of what I hope to be 52 weigh-ins.

248.5 lbs. Actually less than what I thought it was going to be. So it looks like my goal is going to be 198.5 lbs by the end of the year. That number scares the hell out of me. Not sure I’ve weighed that little since middle school.

I’m not sure how perfect this scale is - but this is the scale and the number I am going with, so this is where the 50 lbs is going to be counted off of.

Check in each week (planning on Monday nights) for the weigh-ins and to track if I am going to achieve (or even come close) to my goal.

I know what you’re thinking when you see this - ONLY 50 LBS? But let me be honest - this is me a couple years ago. A former co-worker just sent me this picture the other day and I couldn’t believe how huge I’d gotten.

I remember one time getting on a scale and it topping over 300 lbs. It wasn’t until I had to do something about it for my health that I ever changed anything. The good thing was, I was eating so bad that the simple changes I made resulted in a bunch of weight being lost.

I am pretty sure the lowest I remember getting was about 234 lbs. Of course I haven’t always been a good boy and actually went back up to about 259 lbs this year.

I know what you’re thinking - here we go with another weight blog where the guy just yo-yo’s up and down, but I’ve really made a change in my life recently.

I discovered something called exercise.

The apartment my wife and I live in has an exercise room that I can access 24 hours a day. From the end of the Thanksgiving weekend up until Christmas day, I exercised almost everyday (I may have missed 4 or 5 days in that month).

This is my on Christmas Day 2011. Depending on the moment and the scale I am using, it appears that I may have lost 7-10 pounds in that time - but something else has happened. I’ve actually grown to LIKING exercising and MISSING it when I’m not doing it.

This bodes well for me because it becomes less of a chore then and more of a part of life.

Besides a long dog walk the other day, this week hasn’t been very good as far as exercising (or food choices go). Both my wife and I had this week off and we’ve just been relaxing up in Laconia NH at my in-law’s house (they’re in FL, making it much easier to relax).

So, when we drive back home tomorrow - it’s back to the grind, back to the gym, and back to real life.

Tomorrow, is when I give my first official weigh-in. I want to use my own scale so I can judge exactly how many pounds I am losing over the next year.

Happy New Year - I hope you stay with me as I take this journey to lose 50 pounds in 2012.