Where I am we didn ' t get snow until a month later than usual . And Tokyo is a month earlier than usual ? Anyways . Weather is weird , man . <| sep |> It ' s common sense that unreleased equipment won ' t be included . By specifically saying released before 1200 AM 1125 PST , it ' s intentionally misleading . <| sep |> Women are superior on other ways . Like shoeshopping . The average male would die of boredom and exhaustion while trying to emulate the average female ' s typical shoe shopping session . <| sep |> Keep at it . Try and try again . The following will be a set of cliches , but they ' re true Just keep in mind that If you fail , fail better . If you fall , fall forward . If you fall down seven times , get up eight . I was Obese 2 for much of my life . That means I wasn ' t just Obese , I was a whole ' nother level of obese . I had to lose weight just to be obese . I wore XL and XXL size shirts . Sometimes I would get motivated and lose some weight . On my especially good runs , I would lose maybe 25 lbs . Then I ' d fall off the wagon and gain it all back , and then some . My best try was in 2007 , when I would wake up at 5 am to go to the gym , do an hour of cardio , then go to work , then do another hour of cardio after work . I got all the way down to 203 lbs . But then I plateaued , and I wasn ' t able to break 200 . And I wondered why I was working so hard . Why I was working myself to death just to stay above 200 . So , I gave up . And I ballooned back up to 250 . This time , my weight loss was kind of by accident . It was intentional , but it wasn ' t a concerted effort . I just stopped eating out . I also stopped cooking for myself . I needed something that offered ease and convenience and also something that was good for my budget . I started buying frozen meals like lean cuisine or fit kitchen or smart ones . I started counting my calories and stopped drinking soda . Slowly but surely , the weight started coming off . From October of 2015 to December of that year I lost 20 lbs . I already went down a suit size . From January 2016 to May , I lost another 30 lbs . By July 4 th I got below 190 . Today I weighed in at 175 . I ' m wearing size 30 waist jeans . I haven ' t done that since I was in middle school . I remember being in middle school and having to lay down on the bed and use all my strength to button my jeans . In just 6 lbs , I ' ll finally enter normal BMI range . I haven ' t been normal since probably 2 nd or 3 rd grade . But here ' s the thing . I still binge on taco bell from time to time . But if I binge on Tuesday , I ' m good the rest of the week . And it ' s not a binge day . I don ' t give myself binge days . I just know that sometimes I ' m gonna fall . But I make sure that my good days outnumber my bad . It ' s simple math really . If I have a calorie deficit of 1000 calories per day , then in a week , I have a 7000 calorie deficit . That ' s about 2 lbs . But lets say that I fuck up and binge on an XXL burrito , with 2 chalupas , cinnabon delights and wash it down with a large baja blast . Well . I ' m gonna have a 4000 or so calorie surplus for that day . But alas , if I don ' t give up , then I have a 3000 calorie deficit for the week . That ' s still a deficit . And as long as I have a deficit going , I ' m gonna keep losing . That ' s what I mean about fall down seven , get up eight . Make sure that in all your dieting and falling off the wagon , that your good days outnumber your bad . Because that ' s how you lose weight . Now , if I had nothing but good days , then I ' d be at my goal weight right now . I ' d be at 150 probably 23 months ago . But I fall off the wagon a lot . So , my weight loss is going a little slower . But It ' s still coming along . Don ' t give up . If you fail at weight loss , try again . Fail better . Fall forward . I kept a pair of jeans that were size 30 in my closet for 8 years . I told myself that I ' d fit into them one day . I used to try it on and well , I could barely squeeze into them unbuttoned , let alone button them . It seemed like a crazy idea . But I thought size 30 jeans fit people , so they ' ll fit me too one day . And now they do . And now , they ' re not even tight on me . They fit me perfectly . I might be down to a 28 or 26 by the time I reach my goal weight . I can ' t even fathom it But it could be you one day . Keep at it . Today you ' re down 5 lbs . In a month you ' ll be down 10 . If you just keep at it , you ' ll see that it gets easier and easier . When I got under 200 lbs staying on my diet became soooo easy . Because now I had achieved so much success that I was even more motivated to continue to reach my goals . I always said that if I could lose weight , I ' d like to get down to 175 . But my real goal was just to at least get to below 200 . When I reached 199 , I figured gosh , 175 is attainable . I ' ve lost 50 lbs , I can surely lose 25 more . But even though 175 was my original goal , I knew that I had set that goal long long ago thinking that it was unattainable . Now that I know what I can achieve , I have set my goal at 150 . I ' m just 25 lbs away from that goal . I ' ll be able to say that I lost 100 lbs . Keep going !