Hi all…I have to post a day early because my wife and I are scrambling to get ready for an extended holiday vacation to Arizona and Nevada. Good news is that I dropped a few pounds!

Weigh-In…Tuesday? – December 15, 2009 from The Fitlanthropist on Vimeo.

Can you spot what changes from the first part of the video from the next? (Other than the 0.1 lb. weight gain, that is…)

Double Weigh-In Wednesday – November 18 & 25, 2009 from The Fitlanthropist on Vimeo.

I have been so incredibly busy this week with a conference in Cleveland, and with other things with my doctoral degree work, that I haven’t had much time to post! I even had an opportunity to do a weigh-in Wednesday, but I just haven’t managed to get the video up…I’ll do that very soon, because tomorrow is…weigh-in Wednesday. Joy.

In the meantime, I’m just going to try and validate my blog through Technorati:

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Argh!! Something is up with my scale. It either needs to be recalibrated or needs a new battery. All I know is I stepped on it this morning and could NOT possible weigh what came back. It’s just not humanly possible to gain what the scale was telling me in a week…yeah, the number was that big. So, I’ll get to fixing it soon and will hopefully have an update soon. Keep your fingers crossed that it’s a loss! But I’ll be honest…I don’t know that it is!

I will be dropping pounds and raising money for Free Arts of Arizona!! It was close and came down to the wire, but it was fun to watch. Thanks to all of you that voted. I wish that I could raise money for all of them at once, but this first go around, I need to make sure I can make a legitimate attempt to earn money with weight loss in mind as well. I would not count out The Andre Agassi Foundation or Nuci’s Space for future goals.

So, now the real work begins. Time to step up and find the donors. Who will match me? Who’ll take my challenge? Who will at least give a little? And who’s willing to send me a cool product for a giveaway?

Stick with me guys, this is going to get interesting!

Just a quick post, guys–voting ends tomorrow at 6 p.m. EST. If you haven’t voted yet, look to the right and choose one of the three charities. Whichever one has the most votes tomorrow will be the charity I “lose” for. I’ve already lost 3 lbs (which I hope I’ve kept off this week) that will go toward the donation (and yes, for some reason, the Traineo thing says 4 lbs, but I won’t mislead you, it’s 3).

I hope that once the charity is chosen that I’ll notch up my work. I need the motivation!

As much as I like the funk of this design, I am weighing the options of redesigning to something slightly more user friendly. I think there are a lot of things that are buried in pages people don’t often go to, and these things are important. Things people should probably know about in terms of donations, etc. Unless there’s an overwhelming dissent, I’ll most likely be changing the scene up a little bit.

If you DON’T think I should change anything, please, I’d like to know about it.

This one is definitely shorter, but evidently I need to extend my arm a bit when filming!

Weigh-In Wednesday – November 4, 2009 from The Fitlanthropist on Vimeo.