Last week when my friend & coworker Jeff informed me he had cause to celebrate (his wife upped his lunch allowance, which now permitted him to eat out more often) how did we mark the occasion? By going to the Golden Palace Buffet, of course!
If you’ve never been, it’s a wonderful thing. There’s a long table laden with steaming metal hot-trays of everything on a Chinese menu (and then some). I’m partial to the crab rangoons. It’s all you can eat for $8.00, and if you’re not planning on going back for seconds (or thirds) then you have no business eating there.
So after we filled our plates and sat down, an attractive woman approached our table. She said “Hello Doug? Remember me? We worked together many years ago.” I said “Um… hi! It’s nice to see you again, gosh how long has it been?” (Nope, not a clue who she is—a name or date would help.) She said “Well, I left in 1996, then got remarried… my last name is so-and-so now.” She asks how I’ve been, I say just fine and ask how she’s been, she says just fine, there’s an awkward pause & she says “Well it was nice seeing you.” I say “You too Ms.So-and-so” and she laughs and says “You can still call me Joy!” and walks to the buffet. My buddy Jeff says “Who was that?” and I tell him his guess is as good as mine. And just as we’re about to begin our Chinese gorge-fest, it dawns on me: JOY??
Here’s me and Joy at a coworkers barbecue sometime in the 90s. She doesn’t look anything like this now!
I jumped up & headed to the buffet and said “Hi, please forgive me for not remembering, but are you the same Joy that sat right across from me at the Dept of Aging in 1995?”
She laughed and said “Yes Doug!” I told her I was sorry I didn’t recognize her right away & that she looked terrific. She laughed again and said thank you, she’d lost the weight 15 years ago and it’s been awhile since she received any compliments about it. Wow.
I went back to work, thought about it the rest of the day, came home and dusted off the digital scales I haven’t stood on since May. It wasn’t pretty. I thought “Well, I DID graze at a chinese buffet today, I’ll wait a couple days and try this again…” No difference, still the same godawful number. I knew I needed to set a new goal, start posting my weigh-ins again.
I’m going to update the table below every week until… I don’t know, 2014? Or until I lose 25 lbs, whichever comes first. (This may turn out to be one big-ass chart… wish me luck!)
GOAL: DROP 25 LBS & LOSE MY BUDDHA BELLY
| Date | Weight | Gain/Loss | Total |
| Aug 16 | 233.50 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 23 | 232.00 | -01.50 | -01.50 |
| Aug 30 | 231.00 | -01.00 | -02.50 |
| Sep 06 | 234.00 | +03.00 | +00.50 |
| Sep 13 | 232.00 | -02.00 | -01.50 |
| Sep 20 | 231.50 | -00.50 | -02.00 |
| Sep 27 | 231.50 | 0.00 | -02.00 |
| Oct 04 | 230.50 | -01.00 | -03.00 |
| Oct 11 | 231.00 | +00.50 | -02.50 |
| Oct 18 | 231.00 | 0 | -02.50 |
| Oct 25 | 231.00 | 0 | -02.50 |
| Nov 01 | 231.00 | 0 | -02.50 |
| Nov 08 | 232.00 | +01.00 | -01.50 |
| Nov 15 | 233.50 | +01.50 | 0 |
| Nov 22 | 234.00 | +00.50 | +00.50 |
| Nov 29 | 235.00 | +01.50 | +01.50 |
| Dec 06 | 237.00 | +02.00 | +03.50 |
Okay I give up, this is clearly not going in the direction I wanted (and the holidays are not helping)! Laugh it up Buddha, but I refuse to give up—I’ll be back in 2014!
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