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I just read some article about how KFC has a new “sandwich” they’re calling the Double Down. The thing is that instead of buns, the sandwich features some fried chicken fillets as the slices and it’s packed with two pieces of bacon, melted slices of Monterey Jack and Pepper Jack cheese and a special zesty sauce.

It looks like a heart attack waiting to happen, but could also be quite tasty as long as the chicken isn’t all dried up. I may have to try one out…but just once. Any more than that and I’ll surely find myself topping 400 lbs before I know it and end up in one of those giant piano-sized caskets that was on that Jamie Oliver show. Luckily, for myself, my heart and my arteries, I’m broke for the weekend and the only food I have to eat is a bunch of broccoli, carrots, and Swiss chard. Nom noms.

The onset of the new year brought on yet another attempt for me to try and get back to some semblance of shape. My goal for Twenty10 on the weight front isn’t to get completely buff by the end of the year — not that I wouldn’t accept it if I did — but rather to transform from my morbidly obese state to where I’m Hollywood fat, aka Seth Rogan fat.

You know, it’s the kind of fat where you can be cast as the fat guy in most movies and get the occasional romantic lead and be believable in it. Not the fat that I’m at right now where you might get cast in a football movie where you play some fat ass that’s obviously too short to play football but gets cast anyway cause he’s fat or you don’t get cast at all because it’s funnier to get some skinny guy in a fat suit to play the role. In other words, if this year goes as planned I will make the transformation from The Nutty Professor to Seth Rogan.

I started the year at 328.0 lbs and got down to 325.0 lbs after the first week despite a hiccup last Saturday where Brandon’s girlfriend cooked enough food for twenty people and Justice and I scarfed it all down by ourselves while watching the Bengals sadly lose to the much hated Jets. Much beer was also consumed at that time, so the 3 lb drop for the week was quite surprising. This week has been going well and I’m expecting another respectable drop in lard on Sunday’s weigh-in. And, as always, you can follow my progress here.

Always being sick, getting over a cold or feeling one is coming is getting really tiresome. The Massachusetts winter is really kicking the crap out of my immune system and I think I’ve only had one completely healthy week over the course of the past three months. It’s probably not a coincidence that the healthy week was the one where I exercised every single day and ate really healthy, so maybe it’s more me crapping over my immune system than the wintery mess.

Whether it’s because I’m dealing with my first real winter in more than 10 years or just me not taking care of myself, it’s pretty clear that I gotta do the part that is in my control and make it a point to eat healthy and exercise religiously. I’ve already quit the dirty smoking habit that I picked up around last June, so that’s a start. Now I just need to get back on the anti-fatty path and all should improve greatly in my life.

Well, it hasn’t been going that well over the past few weeks. The morning of my surgery right before Christmas to have my gallbadder removed, I tipped the scales at about 295 lbs. Then after having an organ removed and being fed by IV all day and only eating a can of chicken soup when I got back home, I somehow woke up the next morning 12 lbs heavier at 307 lbs. No clue how that happened, to be quite frank, because I was honestly hoping for one of those hospital-inspired extreme weight losses for that day.

Things didn’t improve any after that, as I was ordered not to go to the gym for three weeks by the doctor and the snow and extreme cold weather made it near impossible for me to venture outside too often. As a result, I was pretty sedentary for my entire Holiday break and saw my weight balloon up to 310 lbs by this past Sunday. However, since the workout ban has been lifted I’ve managed to hit the gym more this week and I’m hoping to get back on track.

Do your part to help out mankind and I’ll promise to be a lot more timely with my Babe of the Week updates in the future. It’s a win-win situation.

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