Health is a motivation to help me trim down. Living longer, disease free are others but my main reason at the moment is to find a mate. I am not bragging but I have had many, many girl friends in my life time. I’ve even married a couple of them. I like thin women or at least normal size women. The problem is that they usually don’t like fat, beer belly, middle aged guys. Having these two problems it is only logically that one of us needs to change. Guess who? Me!

I put my Babe of the Day Photo Online, not to be a male chauvinist pig who discriminates against women but rather to keep the eye on the prize. Is it a 22 year old size 4? No! A woman around my age size 12 and under but they don’t have many photo shoots for 35 year old and older models so I had to settle with the gorgeous younger models. If this offends you then I apologize but you don’t have to ever click on the link.

If anyone ever tells you that they are losing weight for anything and looking better isn’t one of them then they are lying to you. Everyone wants to look better even if health is one of the issues.

Today, along with Weight Loss I am going to quit smoking. Smoking is something I have done for the past 22 years and I have tried to quit before but today is the day. I had a cousin that just died from Lung Cancer and I found out this morning on Mothers day that my ex-mother in law now has cancer. Both of them smoked and I am seeing a correlation here - duh!

I am doing the Nicorette gum. It usually holds me over during the day at work but I am just going to keep on going and say enough is enough. $4 x 2 = $8 per day that I usually spend. That is $64 per week not even counting gum. Which is $3328 dollars I can save a year. That will pay for a cruise - heck it would even pay for a personal trainer. Good bye and don’t come back in my life - ever.

I am putting together my gym bag. The goal is to have everything I need together so that I can go to the gym early in the morning and then straight to work. I am not saying this is the end all and may not even apply to women but here is what I am taking:

1. Gym Bag
2. Lock & Key
3. Work Clothes & Shoes
4. Pair of underwear & socks
5. Comb or brush
6. Deodorant, cologne
7. Shampoo, soap

My plan is to get up between 4:00 am and 4:30 am and drive to the gym by 5:15 am when they open. I will wear my gym clothes on the way. This will let me throw my gym bag into the locker and start working out immediately. Thirty minutes on the treadmill or elliptical machine will get me to around 5:50 am. I will then head to the shower, taking along my gym bag so that I can have access to the shampoo and soap. Drying off and changing clothes puts me to about 6:10 am. Dry my hair with the gym furnished hair dryer and out the door by 6:20 am. and drive to work by 7:00 am.

I’ve done this before and I think I can even beat that time but it is an approximate schedule that I would like to make a daily activity in my life. I think I will have to shave at home before I go because I have never seen it done at the gym and it would probably not be appreciated at the gym either? My main problem is getting to sleep early enough to do this on a consistent basis.