Daphne’s no longer a pagan. :-)

I’ve been wanting to setup a new Ubuntu server here at the house for testing applications locally without having to run a VM. I wanted to get something small and fairly silent. Luckily, or tragically, however you look at it, my youngest son found out that sitting on a laptop isn’t a good idea. Now the boys don’t have their own laptop. :-)

It’s my birthday today! I also weighed in today, and I have a loss. I now weigh195 lbs, so I lost 6 lbs in the first week. Apparently this is normal for men on Weight Watchers in the first week. I would assume that the loss will now trim back, although I lost 2 points on my daily point allotment.

Everything is going well, although I do notice that I’m not quite filled at meals. I’ve been eating more fruit and taking the single point hit here and there. I sneaked on the scale the other day, and I’m unofficially losing weight (4 lbs). So, who knows. I think I lose points daily as I lose weight, luckily we only weigh in weekly.

Ordered some new furniture for the porch the other day, and it all came in today. After I finished mowing the lawn and doing some other chores around the house, I headed over to Sears and picked it all up. After some assembly, it was all setup. The furniture is a bit bigger than what we had before, we opted for the coffee table setup with 2 chairs and a love seat. We didn’t do enough dinners on the porch to justify getting a normal table out there, plus this feels a bit more relaxed.

I’m afflicted by some sympathy weight due to our third child being born, so I’ve decided that I need to get back into shape and lose the baby fat. Ok, maybe it’s not baby fat, but I would like to lose some weight. I’ve decided to try Weight Watchers without attending or joining.

We have all the guides, cook books and slide rules due to previous diets by the wife (other two child births), and since she’s working off the real baby weight once again, I get to work off my lazy weight. I started yesterday and clocked in at 201 lbs. Which for my height would put my BMI around 28, so I’m officially fat. I’ll keep this updated with some non-technical stuff with my progress.