Let's get it started

Welcome! This is to be the first of many entries as I talk about my life and about things that I think are important - if you think that just sounds like it's my soapbox, you're right, but you can respond if you like and we can debate once and a while as well.

While I'll probably talk about a variety of topics (Baseball, coaching kids, college basketball, golf - gotta love that guy Eldrick - , poker, politics, shoes, clothes and my views on the American Fraternity) the bulk of what I write about will be about my quest to lose weight. You see, I'm fat. Not need a forklift to move fat, or breaking chairs fat (even though I've done that, but not for a while), but I'm a big boy. I'm not going to tell you my weight, at least for now, but i will tell you my successes and my failures. I'll talk about what works for me and the fun of trying to figure out how to get the things I love (gummi bears anyone??) and still get to my goal weight of 199. Really its not about a goal weight, but about a goal size: I want to be able to buy pants at the Gap!

So with that being said, here we go. I hope you come along for the ride and feel free to comment.