I write this from the belly of the beast... or rather my room at the Royal Amsterdam Hotel. I have just started off my latest trip and have awakened to my first morning of the trip in AC.

I'm little reluctant to share this but I think it will be of value to the board. One of the things that I am investigating is "Will this trip be any different". You see, I have just lost 115 lbs. No surgery, just a medically supervised VERY low calorie diet and moderate exercise. I'm not finished and still have a long way to go... BUT... You can't lose that much weight and have it not be noticed.

I KNOW that to the average prostitute, how fat is your wallet far exceeds how fat your gut is when she is deciding whether she will go with you. I have always had a great time and as Merlin and MongerX can confirm, I'm a total GFE addict.

You can see it in their eyes. "Oh my gwad... that HUGH fat guy is trying to engage ME...". Praise the Lord tht women are wired differently from men. This does not stop them from having crazy monkey sex with you. They often seem to enjoy it as much as I do. I try to bring more to the party than just cash. As you work your way up the food chain, it does have more negative impact. I REALLY feel stupid when walking hand in hand with some totally hot number.

My guess is that it will make no significant difference in straight up mongering. I will be looking to see the effects in the overall trip.

Good for you on the weight loss, you should be proud. Enjoy, I look forward to the report.

Congrats on the weight loss. As you no doubt know the airline food isn't all that great anyway. Hope eating at the Y is allowed on your new diet.

Congrats, Smitty, on the weight loss. It ain't easy, and whether the girls respond or not, you'll notice other differences as a lean, mean mongering machine.

Hope it's a great trip.

As someone who lost 35% of his body weight and has kept it off for over 15 years, I applaude you.

Keep it up and enjoy the new you!

Size 34 pants always have a bigger selection than 42's anyway....

Dude, the Colombian dudes flying the SAM turboprops will be especially pleased with this development :-) (inside jk)

U actually did quite well for yourself before in the hobbying, I can only imagine how much stellar it'll be for you now.

So, now I gotta find another dude that's bigger than me so I look runty in comparison :-)

All right, Dude, congrats on the weight. Wish I was there with you, instead of behind this desk at 8:00pm. Oh, well, later in the year....

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So, now I gotta find another dude that's bigger than me so I look runty in comparison :-)

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Smit, Great job. 3 years ago I lost 170#'s. down from 255 to 205 and dumped a 120# bitch. The differance in my life is amazing. I now bounce between 198 and 210. The girls did notice and the sex was better than it had been in years and I am now working on staying below 200 with food choices and moderate excersize including liberal amounts of enduro sex sessions.

Congrats! You just lost 70% of my total body weight , and probably more than a lot of those little pinays weigh soaking wet. Shedding that much excess baggage is bound to improve your life in countless ways. Here's to hoping mongering is one of them. Have a blast man!

Shit you just arrived in AC now. Are you staying there until we meet up and take that side trip on Feb 19? Or have you pans changed?

Smitty, congrats on the shedding of pounds and nutritional improvements. I don't imagine you'll notice much difference with most girls, but with some of the newer/less experienced gals, I'm sure you may notice they are more enthusiastic to join you.

MX, I did not want to delay this trip and neither did I want to want to miss out that side trip.

So, I swallowed hard, cleared my scheduled and whipped out the old MasterCard. Another NWA ticket

I thank all of you for your encouragement and congratulations.

I can tell you that the improvement in my performance and enjoyment of sex is remarkable. My life has improved in countless small ways.

I am only just over half way to my objective. I still have a looong way to go and the truly hard part (keeping it off) is yet to come. The folks at the HRA have ALL noticed and commented. I admit that I am uncomfortable with sharing this but I think it is a valuable data point for the board.

OK, bugger off now

Way to go Smitty! That's a lot more than when we had lunch at the Thai Temple, and definitely better than surgery.

I'm a little behind on my reading here, I know I'll enjoy this one.