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Day 40, 2 days left: The end is nigh!

Well, here it is, day 40. The end is right around the corner. I’ve lost around 35 pounds, shocked a few folks, but more importantly, I gained an interesting perspective on life, body image, and doing hard work just for the sake of doing it.

The last part was my favorite reaction to doing this fast. When people would ask, “why are you doing this to yourself?”, I’d tell them that it was just for the sake of doing it and half the time people would just keep staring at me and repeat the question.

It’s funny to me that some people just can’t wrap their heads around the notion that someone would choose to do something painful or incredibly difficult with no reward in mind or particular benefit. I did start this thing thinking it might be shared in the news. I mean everyone else that did this before me had been on stuff like CNN, VICE, and Men’s Health, so it seemed like something that could have happened, but that wasn’t the reason I did it.

I just wanted to do it for myself to see what it would be like and to have fun doing something different. I have lost a lot of weight, but I wasn’t interested in losing weight, I just thought that would be a fun measure of the time and changes that were taking place.

I decided to slow down on the scale progress photos because people were getting the impression that this was a diet. I have given up on correcting people on that and even started calling it a diet, but it’s really not a diet that I was doing, just a guy being a goof and taking advantage of my relative youth and health to do fun things I can learn from and maybe change a few things about my life.

I’ve got more to say in greater detail when I wrap this thing all up and give a sermon on the mound of pizza and burgers that is already being assembled for the end of my last day, but I will share this final thought…

On Friday, I played a music gig at The Blarney in downtown Toledo. It was an outdoor street party in a big tent and inside, there was a photo area where you could take photos for fun and they would project them up on the walls of the tent.

After our set, the guys in the band, their wives, and I went over to the photo area and danced and goofed around while taking photos.

Now mind you, I don’t like being in photos that much because I know what I look like, and, while it’s not exactly a bridge troll or sloth from the Goonies as I am known to describe, I know it’s not great.

(I will catapult anyone to posts something about me being down on myself or looking better that I give myself credit for straight into the Flint river!)

I am a tall, bald, broad shouldered guy with a very weird face and a bad smile. I mostly look like the husband in the ‘Jake, from State Farm’ commercial 5 years after the divorce. Despite all that, when the photos came up on the screen and I got ready to laugh at myself, something different happened.

I looked at the photos and when I saw myself, I was really happy with what I saw. I actually didn’t hate a single photo I was in. I mean there were some real bad looking ones but even those looked ok to me. I mean I know I looked thinner in certain photos but I also looked just as pudgy as ever in most of them and I was just as thrilled to see them.

And that’s mainly because I liked that I looked genuinely happy in all of the photos. I got plenty to worry about right now in life, trust me, I do and it’s bad, but at the same time, if there’s not a lot you can do to fix things, do what you can.

If you can’t think of anything specific you can do to make things better for yourself, just pick one path randomly and just grind it out all the way until it’s done and then move on with the pride of knowing it’s done and you did it. You’d be shocked what a good fuel that pride can be.

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Day 30: Thanks for all the shares!

Hey folks, just wanted to take sometime to say thanks for sharing my article in the newspaper. In addition to facebook, I've heard people saying they've seen it all over the place today. Someone said they saw it somewhere on reddit today too and I can't even find it in any of the subreddits I use. So believe me, I'm floored by the support and attention this thing is getting. Thanks to everyone for cheering me on and making me feel great!

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Day 25: Thanks to you all

I just wanted to take some time to say thanks for all the folks that have been so supportive of me doing this fast and also thanks to all of you people who I met at the Glass City Beer Fest last night who are apparently following my fast that I actually didn't even know. I don't see a whole lot of followers on the tumblr, and I know not everyone that likes a status or a photo on social media actually leaves any indication of liking it, but it was really staggering how many people stopped me to say they recognized me and are following me. I really appreciate all of the friendly folks that I met last night and made me feel really awesome! 3/5ths of the way done folks!

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Day 24: 252.2 lbs. 24 days ago: 278.1 lbs. 18 days left of only eating beer and drinking water for lent. I'm feeling great folks and it's all of off great craft beer. #beerpower #beerfast #craftbeer #nofoodnoproblem

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Day 24: 253.2 lbs. 24 days ago: 278.1. Just 20 more days of only eating beer and drinking water. Feeling great too. #beerfast #weightloss #craftbeer #adventure

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Day 23: I think I owe Muscle Pharm an apology. As you all know, it was doctor recommended that if I was going to do this beer fast, that I add a little protein to help my body be able to function while working at the brewery. Some days very little happens around here, a lot of days, a ton of physical stuff happens all at once. So I went with this stuff and do a 25g scoop every morning. It really makes a difference. I forgot once, had a crazy busy day at work, and then I started to feel like complete junk. I originally made fun of the alpha look of their packaging, but it's really good stuff. I'd probably be a complete mess with the amount of stamina that's often needed at my job. So if you're the type of person that would need to use protein powder, I'd recommend trying this one. It's good enough that you can live off of it, provided you're also drinking beer and water.