the weighting game

I was never what you would call "svelte" even in my most active, most brimming with testosterone, having hair on my head, time of my life, i was a big man. This is pretty hard considering i am 5'11 so squat is the word of the day. Now lets fast forward a few thousand bacon cheeseburgers and a brewery of beer, and i weigh approximately the same as a female lion, or a side of beef. Now, having lifted weights I just chalked it up to getting bigger, but it was all a lie. there are plenty of people who weigh less than I who are as strong as I, and there are a heck of alot of people who can run further than i, and i think i could as well with about a rucksack worth of fat off the body.
as of today, i have lost approximately 10 lbs doing little more than cutting out my beer during the week, and fried foods, but i would love to be down at least 50lbs by the time of the race. So I have to bring up the most dreaded of gym equipment, the scale. I weigh myself every 7 days, and i am hoping for a slight decrease in weight each week from the simple addition of working out 5 days a week from 3, ans well as the cardio of the running, but will this be enough? when i start to loose significant weight i will burn less calories because of simply not working as hard carrying the weight.( ain't that a stinker, being fat actually helps you lose weight) so i am toying with some sort of diet modification and man i do not want to go there. Either way I will keep you informed.
as for the training all went well, i did miss one day of running due to bad weather which means i am going to have to come up with an alternative for jogging on the dreary cold days. and i finally made it to "big plates" on the weight training, a whopping 50lbs added to the bar, kinda fun considering i was squatting and pressing around 300 lbs.