Week 3 begins with an almost insurmountable lead gained by yours truly, the inimitable monkeypup.
(That’s right, kids, I gots me one hella fine vocabillary)

Monkeypup:
Starting Weight: 219
Current Weight: 200
Loss: -19

Monkeyhead:
Starting Weight: 225
Current Weight: 220
Loss: -5

Pending a drastic eating binge on my part or some radical type of surgery on MH’s part, I think this one’s mine.

Well, a week has passed, and the Battle of Tenaciousness is in full swing. ‘Head and I did our weekly weigh-in this morning. I’m happy to say I thrashed his ass with flying colors. All it took was working out twice a day for 40 minutes and cutting back the carbs. I’m already feeling better. Can’t wait to see where I am at the end of the month.

Monkeypup: -9 lbs (down to 210)
Monkeyhead: -2 lbs (down to 223)

Tenacious: Holding or tending to hold persistently to something.

Tenacious D: The greatest band in the world.

Tenaciousness: A word I made up.

The Battle of Tenaciousness: The show-down between two brothers, Monkeypup and Monkeyhead, to see who can lose the most weight in a month. The winner to be christened “Grand Master of the Universe.”

So..My brother and I are overweight. 40 lbs. overweight. When I tell people this, they are in shock, since I hide it so well. In fact, I asked two of my co-workers to guess my weight. They were each off by exactly 40 lbs. Whether or not others notice it, I notice it. My pants don’t fit, I’m out of shape and I want to change.

Here’s the problem. ‘Head and I are lazy fucks. We’ll start to diet and exercise, and as soon as things seem to be going well, BAM, back to our normal junk-eating ways.

But a solution came to me from the most unexpected source. VH1. More to the point, Celebrity Fit Club. Though we won’t have the luxury of trainers and dieticians, I saw something on the show that we could use.

Humiliation. What better motivation than that? Humiliation is the carrot we needed.

So. Once a week, ‘Head and I will be posting our weights on the site. On September 8th (the day before my 30th birthday), we will weigh in and declare the winner (hint: it will be me). It will be based on total weight loss, and total weight loss alone.

Starting Weight:
Monkeyhead: 225
Monkeypup: 219

Back to starving. See you later.