And with a **thud** it begins...

Well shit.... The above picture can be looked at in two ways. One: "You're a fatass Mac and how you managed to put on MORE weight than you lost during the last biggest loser is beyond comprehension" or Two: "Hells ya my man. With all this extra lovin' you packed on winning this contest is going to be like taking candy from a baby."

I'm thinking I'm going to go with the later.

The second Strathmore's Biggest Loser is starting today and once again, I feel like I'm in desperate need of a change at my waistline. Last April about 20 people got together and I managed to finished on the bubble (3rd place overall and 1st one out of the money). So far I'm the only one to have weighed-in but I'm expecting about 10-15 people to give it a go. Last year my buddy Jason and his friend Gabi took 1-2 respectively. Every seen "White Men Can't Jump?" Ya... I think I got schooled by Woody Harrelson. But I digress.

To give myself a little bit of a competitive edge I went hog wild over the last two weeks of vacation and put on at least 5-6lbs just by sitting on my ass and eating Christmas goodies. I ate a honey bun for good measure on the way into work this morning and here I am at 268.5 lbs!!

(Shit do I have my work cut out for me or what?!)

Got a long day of work ahead of me with zippy chance for the gym tonight but starting tomorrow morning, I'll be back in the gym seeing what can be done about this abomination that I call a torso. (I mean that in the most loving way possible)

While this go around of the Biggest Loser isn't accepting any outside-the-building competitors, my girlfriend Megan is supporting me by going on a diet too. It'll be interesting to see where her will to lose weight stops versus where my will to win money begins. Either way, I don't think I would be able to do it at all without her support (and not eating McDonald's in my face). So I got that going for me... which is nice.

Tomorrow I'll give a full tail of the tape as well as a report on how the gym went... its been so long that I wouldn't be surprised if they've changed the wallpaper on me. Hell... the gym might not even be there anymore for all I know. Oh boy I'm excited!