Watches as rewards
There’s more to this story, but the important part is that I have lost a lot of weight over the last several months by getting back to healthy eating habits, working out regularly, and maintaining strict sobriety. I’m not sure of the exact number of pounds I’ve lost, but I’ve dropped two shirt sizes (L to SM) and my waistline has gone down by four inches (33 to 29). I think the grand total is probably somewhere around 50 lbs.
ANYWAY, as a reward to myself for being able to fit into clothes I almost gave up on and donated to Goodwill, and for getting back to being a healthy and fit (and sober) boy, I thought I would buy me a righteous watch. Not sure yet what I’ll get, but the Hamilton Murph is calling me like the crack rocks called Pookie.
Have any of you done something like this? What were you celebrating, and what watch did you buy? I wanna hear about some wins!
(Okay yes I admit that this post is a bit self-congratulatory, but goddammit I think I’ve earned the right to chuff my own bits a little.)
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Congratulations, that's an impressive feat. Rewarding yourself with a watch is a great way of adding a reward to the feat and a meaning to a new piece in your collection.
Good job man! No shame in being proud of what you’ve achieved, keep at it! The Murph is a beautiful watch too!
Awesome!! I too went on the same journey and still at it!! Congratulations!! The best reward is feeling better about your physical and mental health!! The watches are extra bonus!! 🍻💪 also plus bringing sexy back is the best !! The missus is not complaining either!! You know what I’m sayin’ 😜🤫
Awesome!! I too went on the same journey and still at it!! Congratulations!! The best reward is feeling better about your physical and mental health!! The watches are extra bonus!! 🍻💪 also plus bringing sexy back is the best !! The missus is not complaining either!! You know what I’m sayin’ 😜🤫
Couldn’t agree more!
Good on you for doing the same thing! Don’t give up!
Couldn’t agree more!
Good on you for doing the same thing! Don’t give up!
Yeah! @Deeperblue @Stricko @whitesalmon and @Fieldwalker helped me achieved it as well!! 🍻💪
Great job, man!!! The 38mm Murph?
That's probably the best reason to get yourself a watch!
Great job, man!!! The 38mm Murph?
Thanks! Yeah, the 38mm. I’m smitten with it. 😍
I on the brink of a 100 pound weight loss. I have been thinking of getting the Hamilton Murph watches in both 42 and 38 mm to remember the effort.
I on the brink of a 100 pound weight loss. I have been thinking of getting the Hamilton Murph watches in both 42 and 38 mm to remember the effort.
Hell yeah that’s awesome!!
Good work on keeping committed. Hell yeah, chuff yo bits, treat yo’self…but please tell me more about this love affair for the Murph.
Good work on keeping committed. Hell yeah, chuff yo bits, treat yo’self…but please tell me more about this love affair for the Murph.
Thank you!
I mean, just look at this thing. It’s perfect—the proportions, the hands, the indices, the colors, all of it. And it all works together to create what I think is the ideal blend of form and function in an absolutely gorgeous package. It’s elegant and rugged and I f*#king love it.
Thank you!
I mean, just look at this thing. It’s perfect—the proportions, the hands, the indices, the colors, all of it. And it all works together to create what I think is the ideal blend of form and function in an absolutely gorgeous package. It’s elegant and rugged and I f*#king love it.
Alright, I’m hearing it. What are your thoughts of the Lorier Falcon II? And the Smiths Everest?
https://youtu.be/gSjM5B3QNlw
The Murph is pretty awesome!
Congrats on the hard work!!! 🎉
Definitely pick something up to mark this great milestone. It will remind you each day of your accomplishment. Congrats again.
Cheers, my dude! I've been on a similar trajectory, with peaks and valleys, since quitting booze last February. Especially appreciated this:
Very important in my case because despite certain obvious positive results, overall I've been far unhappier since getting sober. For...reasons. Anyhow, it's made it good practice in doing the right thing because it's the right thing, not because it yields any particular outcome.
ANYHOW. Definitely looking forward to hearing about whichever bit-chuffing watch you end up with!
Definitely like both of those, but I prefer the Smiths over the Lorier. While I like Lorier, I can’t see myself owning one.
Right-o. The Murph is quite smashing as well. My favorite detail about it is the Morse code on the seconds hand—the movie didn’t use Morse, it used binary. Oops?
Great going! being Canadian I have no idea what bits is but i'm too curious not to ask how you are chuffing them?
Cheers, my dude! I've been on a similar trajectory, with peaks and valleys, since quitting booze last February. Especially appreciated this:
Very important in my case because despite certain obvious positive results, overall I've been far unhappier since getting sober. For...reasons. Anyhow, it's made it good practice in doing the right thing because it's the right thing, not because it yields any particular outcome.
ANYHOW. Definitely looking forward to hearing about whichever bit-chuffing watch you end up with!
Sobriety can be a double-edged sword for sure. I like feeling healthy and not putting something in me that exacerbates depression, but damn if I don’t miss having a break from ever-present anxiety sometimes.
Right-o. The Murph is quite smashing as well. My favorite detail about it is the Morse code on the seconds hand—the movie didn’t use Morse, it used binary. Oops?
I have to wonder if they assumed more people would be familiar with Morse code.
I have to wonder if they assumed more people would be familiar with Morse code.
🤷♂
Wow!
Massive congratulations!
Weightloss is HARD so you should be rightly proud and celebrate however you wish 🍻
Wow!
Massive congratulations!
Weightloss is HARD so you should be rightly proud and celebrate however you wish 🍻
Thanks!
First and for most congratulations. Second, yes yes and yes. My fiance and I have established a budget for my buying throughout the year. which will be tailored as time goes on (still more on the novice side of this hobby). The company I work for provides pretty decent spot bonuses whenever one goes above and beyond. I've gotten two in the past 6 months or so and I typically will put half in the savings account and pretend I'm a responsible adult and the other half towards something nice for myself. the first time I did a preowned SKX009 and an Alpinist 157, and the last bonus was my newest from FC (to be seen at a later date).
Congratulations! If you choose the Murph I think you will be thrilled with it. I love mine.
Thank you everyone for the kind words. Know that every comment means the world to me, and I truly did not expect these sorts of responses when I originally made the post.
And to @Ichibunz, @ImNevix, @DougFNJ, @mjosamannen, @uhrensohn, @StNobody, and one person who PM’d me and I won’t out publicly (you know who you are), who are all on similar journeys, you are all absolute BADASSES in my book.
🤘💪❤🕉
This is the stuff I love to hear 🥳 I'm on the same journey. It's hard sometimes, but it's harder to be a self destuctive turd 😅
And there is always the: "you should deal with the roots of your problems". Maybe true, but you can't deal with shit when you body and mind is breaking down due to a terrible lifestyle.
Stay at it 💪 The Murph isn't my favorite, but it is nice. Only you know what you like.
I bought a my used Black Bay 36 after about 8 months sober, not to celebrate. Mostly because the sum was about the same I would have wasted on booze in 8 months 😅
Keep it up, your life will become infinitely better.
Well done, ODB.
Buy watches, the cure for overeating! Never gain weight again!
Spend all your money on watches and have nothing left for food....
Win, win.
I on the brink of a 100 pound weight loss. I have been thinking of getting the Hamilton Murph watches in both 42 and 38 mm to remember the effort.
Officially 2 pounds to go to hit 100 lost.