PROJECT Halve Me Alex Pierpaoli's Anti-Corporate, Anti-Cruelty Vegan Journal

PROJECT: HALVE ME

What is Project: Halve Me?

Project: Halve Me is a self-imposed, self-designed experiment in shaving off half my current body weight. The experiment is driven by the switch from a processed, corporate-food, omnivorous binge-a-thon to a mostly vegan/vegetarian diet*. The switch is being made for philosophical and spiritual reasons as well as healthful and nutritional ones. Losing weight, body-fat, is a personal goal of the project, however, decreasing my impact on the world around me and spreading the word about the benefits of vegetarianism and Veganism are also what's driving Project: Halve Me.

My current weight is not only a result of simply eating mass quantities of food, it is also the result of years of fast food consumption. The effort behind Project: Halve Me is intended to radically alter that lunatic course towards self-destruction and continued karmic agony.

Project: Halve Me is Alex Pierpaoli's Anti-Corporate, Anti-Cruelty, mostly Vegan*/Vegetarian, On-Line Weight-Loss Journal

*-why do I say mostly, or predominantly, vegan? Because I occasionally eat dairy and/or eggs and I don't want my lapses in discipline or acts of culinary indiscretion to taint the concept of Veganism. More about my take on veganism here

May 22nd, 2009 474.4 lbs (down from 517 in 2006, photos below taken on June 5, 2009)

Probably a bad choice of shirt for these shots but I'm already MUCH lighter than when these shots were taken...

It's not the eighties but it seems my hair has almost grown into a tail completely on its own.

Why do I feel the need to pop a double biceps pose in every set of progress pix? Probably because I saw Pumping Iron at too impressionable an age.

Measurements: Chest 65 inches (normal) 67 inches (expanded) Waist 72 inches

My Goal weight is Half of where I started...I was 517 or so at my very heaviest so for this Project to officially Halve me, I would have to get down to 258.5 lbs or less. But anywhere in the 255-245 pounds range will be OK with me.

Above is a production pic of me as Uncle Gary in Geno McGahee's upcoming Family Secret, taken June 7, 2009. Click the picture to learn more at Webhead Entertainment's Site

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9/27/09

~~Fuzzy~~ Chubby Math

481 starting weight...half of that is 240.5, my eventual goal weight

273 days or 39 weeks until I’m 40 years old

5 pounds per week in order to reach 286 by 7/1/10

4.5 pounds per week in order to reach 305.5 by 7/1/10

4.0 pounds per week in order to reach 325 by 7/1/10

3.0 pounds per week in order to reach 364 by 7/1/10

3 + 31+ 5= 39 days until shark & airplane time…450 at shark time?

8/3/09

~~Fuzzy~~ Chubby Math

477 starting weight...half of that is 238.5

332 days or 47 weeks until I’m 40 years old

4.5 pounds per week in order to reach 265.5 by 7/1/10

4.4 pounds per week in order to reach 271 by 7/1/10

4.2 pounds per week in order to reach 280 by 7/1/10

4.0 pounds per week in order to reach 289 by 7/1/10

3.0 pounds per week in order to reach 336 by 7/1/10

31 + 30+ 31+ 5= 97 days until shark & airplane time…414 at shark time?

7/22/09 473.8

6/18/09 OK, so I've gained back 38lbs since May 31st of Last Year and that is really not good for me health-wise or considering my goal is to LOSE weight, not gain it. So here I am again and all set to start taking my health seriously and this project seriously and actually posting stuff on the interwebs as was intended. My eating has been all over the place but mostly out of control, hence the 30+ pound gain. My big problem is that quite often when feeling self-loathing & self-destructive I slip right into eating grotesquely large portions of an All-American Fast Food diet. And lately the Drive-Thrus have been calling and I've answered. So much of my overeating has been omnivore eating which works on several levels because it allows me to hate myself for binging far more because I know how much non-human animal suffering and environmental destruction I am contributing to with my gorge-fests. It really lets me feel very loathsome about myself which in some bizarre way is of course the goal. Figure that one out and you get a gold star.

6/14/09 463lbs

6/10/09 466.8 lbs

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