Category Archives: Blogger Series

When I awoke this morning I felt anxious, knowing full well that I needed to weigh myself and check in with all of you good people. It was a good feeling, though, because I actually kind of missed that excitement after doing it every week in 2011. What would I weigh? Did I lose anything? […]

I walked into my Weight Watchers meeting on Tuesday night and nervously headed for the scale. I was trying to think happy thoughts because I was hoping that my first major goal of being below 300 pounds was finally reached. I have not been below 300 pounds in almost two years. I handed my weight […]

Just when I thought I was finally going to flawlessly succeed at this whole weight loss/fitness thing, life threw a wrench in my plans. I’ve been having issues with my car for a while, and last week it finally bit the dust… for now. I found out it’s going to cost a couple thousand to […]

As a lifelong freelancer, money is always tight. Hence, I have undertaken the Weight Watchers program without getting a membership through the company, avoiding the monthly fee. In order to fake a Weight Watchers plan, I began by researching the system on Wikipedia. After learning about the system and how it worked, I then found […]

We’ve all been there, dwelling on the Island Plateau feeling frustrated. We’ve been  working so hard. We’ve been sticking to our “dieting” routines, food planning, exercising, counting calories, not cheating etc. and taking tremendous pride in being very good. Then comes that time of the week when you go to your scale with anxious expectation […]

Let me explain my meal plan before and now — I feel like it’s essential to understanding my journey. Initially, I tried to lose my baby weight by exercise alone. I would spend quite a bit of time on the treadmill and never saw any real results. The only thing happening was that I was […]

Week 1 isn’t really the truth. It’s Week 1 on this cool site but Week 30 on my weight-loss/body/life transformation journey. I started this journey on January 4, 2012. Yep, that’s right, a New Year’s Resolution junkie.  Weighing in at a whopping 215 lbs., (even for 5’7 that’s a lot) I was using the ‘F’ […]

My name Is Mike Borassi and I was on the show “Survivor” three years ago. I made to the show in Brazil but at the last minute I was medically bumped off for being overweight and high blood pressure (175/ 95). I thought I was done, but I lost weight and had a jaw operation […]

I feel like I have started “the first day of the rest of my life” about 100 times already. The fact is that the first day of my life was the day I was born in 1987. We can be reborn, reinvented, but our life goes on and one day life will go on without […]

This morning was dramatic (like every other morning of my life): I had a stare off with the coffee shop’s pastry counter. SPOILER ALERT: The pastries always win. I need you to picture this: I always march towards the door of the coffee joint with like, THE BEST intentions. I hope to get in, order […]