How Do You Prove Who You Are? :-)

[arontius]

.....At work we have these cards that we use to access our computers, 'Common Access Cards' or CAC's. They are also used as forms of identification when we access other Naval installations. And on these cards is a picture taken of you so that you can be placed face to name.

.....The picture on my card was taken five years ago. And yesterday I had to go into the security office and get it renewed as it was about to expire. The lady taking my information looked at the picture and looked at me and looked at the picture and looked at me. Then she went and grabbed her supervisor, who did the same thing.

.....They were apologetic, but they couldn't visually determine that the card I gave them actually belonged to me as the picture bore very little resemblance to me now. I was quite amused as they electronically took a couple of fingerprints to verify on the computer that I was actually who I said I was. Took them about a half hour to go through this routine.

.....But I got my new card. The lady who took my old card made a copy of the old card and gave it to me. She said she doesn't normally do that, but she thought that I might want to keep it as a reminder. She had my old statistics up on her computer and asked me my height, eye color, hair color, and then weight. I told her 255 pounds. She stopped and asked if I really weighed 550 pounds five years ago. And I told her that yes I did. :-)

.....Actually, the whole thing made me want to lose a little more. I was down to about 230. I crept up to 260 and have hovered between 250 and 260 now for about four months now. So that's my new range without really exercising or watching what I eat very closely. Not too bad, but could do much better. Will have to work on that.

.....But was a better way than usual to start a week. :-)

.....Aaron.

Comments

[redbowofdl.livejournal.com]

Holy Crap, that's incredible, you lost 300 pounds? I met you at September Crown 2005 and when I saw you again at Candlemas 2006 I didn't recognize you and had to ask someone who you were. I did not realize you had lost so much weight. I struggled to get my weight down from an all time high of 189 just before I turned 40. Losing 30 pounds felt like a huge achievement to me. 300 pounds is mind boggling! I'll bet you have good dieting advise you could share.