half a decade later, where am i at?

this is a special day, belive it or not…

…seis de mayo!

not a holiday for most, but it is for me.

you see, five years ago i was tired of how i looked, and did a drastic low-carb diet and for the first time lost weight. i had been a long-haired, scraggly, big guy – five foot eight, two-hundred and SIXTY-EIGHT pounds. that’s what the scale said five years ago today…

…but labor day of 2k3 i was down to 217. and pretty much stayed there until alex moved in and i started eating crappy. i’d gotten down to as low as 209 since, but after she moved out when and then we broke up my weight went up to 230 or so and stayed there until the last couple of months.

thankfully today i weighed in at 220.

…and plan to drop even further by the juneteenth bar-b-q. at my age (i turn thirty-seven this year), it ain’t as easy as it used to be.