What's Going On?

I just completed 6 straight days where I used the treadmill. My legs are so stiff that today I just walked, I couldn't run. I have been averaging over 15,000 steps a day. That is about 7.5 miles. About 33% to 40% of that was outside in the one of the worst winters on record. We had a snow storm Saturday another one today. I've just been grinding out the miles. I have completed 38 days of the 50-day challenge. I am well past 500,000 steps and will easily meet the 600,000 step goal.

I have lost about 20 pounds but could lose 20 more before reaching my short-term goal. I believe I have turned the corner regarding food intake. Today I went to Barbarians Steakhouse for lunch with my Vancouver lawyers. Due to the high caloric intake I skipped dinner entirely. I consumed way too much  food at lunch.

Yesterday I attended an after work industry function. I consumed zero alcohol. I ate sparingly. In the past I would have drank several beers and made poor food choices. I walked home from the function. In the past I would have cabbed it home. I then hopped on the treadmill for 40 minutes.

I spoke to M at the function last night. As was the case last year she can't tell the difference in my weight. She is good at encouraging me but doesn't think I have lost an ounce of weight. She also complained about how I draw her in the cartoons. She doesn't like the crazy hair. I told her that was my signature.

I bought a coat from Eddie Bauer last year. The zipper broke within 1 or 2 days. As the coat also had buttons I never took the coat back to the store. Bereza believes that they installed the zipper backwards. He has a "zipper guy" in The Bay store. He claims the guy can fix my zipper for $15 and will throw in a bowl of soup. He has been all over me to visit his zipper guy. Yesterday one of the two buttons failed. I am down to one button during the coldest winter in a generation. Instead of going to the zipper guy I bought a brand new coat for $49.99 at Marks Warehouse. I kept the old coat with the option of taking it to the zipper guy. I would then have two functional coats. The homeless guys in Toronto are dressed better than me. They are actually giving me money when I walk down the street. I leave the condo with no money and I have $5 by the time I get to work.