The Scale is Laughing at ME!!!!

First of all, this has been a very stressful week. Stress and weight lose do not go together. While I was on vacation I lost 5 pounds, I get home from vacation, go through a very stressful week and lose 2 pounds, oh joy. But that is not what this post is about, it is about the scale laughing at me this morning, that's right, LAUGHING. 299 is a mini-goal. This morning I get up, go into the bathroom, get on the scale and it was just like being on the biggest loser, I swear it, the scale reads 298.6, 301.1, and then stops at 300.0. I mean seriously, 300.0, not 300.1 or .4 but .0, come on!!!! It is not that I am unhappy about this, I am excited about it, I have lost like 87 pounds now but how often do you get on a scale that measures you by the point something and you get .0? Well, 300.0 it is which means that tomorrow... 299!

The Race to 299

I don't know if it is a race but I am watching the Biggest Loser and "Race" just made it sound cool. 299 is a goal, not THE goal, but a goal, a big one actually, and I am almost there.... I am a little afraid to weigh myself over the next couple of days. I am afraid that I won't get there as quick as I want. Getting on the scale and seeing 302, 303, 301, would be disappointing. It might sound silly to you but that is how I am feeling right now. I mean shoot, 299 would mean that I have lost something like 80 some pounds, that's a lot. Of course the official scale is at the Doctors office and I get my next fill on April 21 and I am pretty sure I will be under the 299 mark by then, I hope, with no plateau, I hope. Did I mention I was a little scared? So, the race to 299 is on and I will be VICTORIOUS!!!!!

home from Vacation...Another Month

We just got home from 5 days away and now wish we were still gone! You know when you leave all of the issues at home, go away for a week and come home, you hope your issues have disappeared, nope, there they are just waiting for you to pick up where you left off.... Vacations have a way of adding pounds. Your schedule is off, you eat out, or you munch because you are sitting around. I lost 5 pounds while we were gone!!! I am sure it had a lot to do with the hiking we did and watching my food intake. You don't have to gain weight on vacation and still have fun.
Now that March is over, I lost a total of 18.8 pounds which is still almost 7 pounds more then my monthly goal.

Dinner at a Restuarant

Last night we took Shayne and Tristain out for their birthdays, 18 and 25, amazing... Anyways, we went to Mizu, the Japanese Restaurant where they cook right there in front of you. Lisa and I shared a meal and to be honest I was not sure how it was going to go. Will I eat to much, not enough? It turned out great, the cook would put stuff on my plate and on Lisa's and I would then put stuff on Lisa's plate too. I ate enough and was satisfied, and Lisa had food left on her plate. It was our first venture out like that, kind of a trial run for next week when we are in Canada on vacation. Eating out, how will it work? It will work just great, and, this morning I dropped 3 pounds which means I am into the 300 single digits now, 308!

73 Pounds So Far

Well, today was my second fill. When they call your name to go back and see the doc the first thing you do is step on the scale... it can be a scary moment. You want the scale to show that you are reaching your goal, that you are doing things right and that the $15,000 you just spent was worth every penny. Well, here is where I am at to date. I tipped the doctors scale at 393 when I started this process and today it read 320, yep, 73 pounds! Wow. Over the last three weeks I have lost 13 pounds, my goal is to lose 12 pounds a month which means for this month I have already exceeded my goal. When you start eating food the weight lose is going to slow down and it will fluctuate as you try to figure out how much you can eat, what your calorie intake is and how much you are exercising. We figured that I am taking in between 1200 and 1300 calories a day. The doc told me today that my calorie intake can not be any lower then 1000 a day which means I am right about where I should be. Oh yeah, the docs scale and my scale at home say different things, it has to do with what I am wearing, or not wearing and the setting of the scale. So when my home scale says 313 and the docs scale says 320 it is saying the same thing. Thank you for you continued support and I sincerely hope that you are still going after a healthier life and losing weight with me.

Third Biggest Loser Pose

Tomorrow morning I get my second band fill and hopefully some questions answered. I am trying to figure out how many calories I should be eating per day? 4 to 5 small meals or 3? What about fat and carbs? When you have been lead by food for so long it is kind of nice to be leading food. Meaning that instead of hitting Jack in the Box because I feel like it I am planning my meals for the best nutritional value. Once I get that figured out I can then stop having to plan my meals, I can just live my life. I am getting there, I slow step at a time. And yes, scroll down to see the Third Biggest Loser pose, I know, I know, scary but I am seeing the difference. I walked into the doctors office at 383 and this morning I was at 313. :)

Just Another Day

Well, I think I am getting settled into somewhat of a routine. I know I not dropping weight like I was at first but that is to be expected and I am not disappointed about it, as long as my weight lose continues and I continue to eat right. It is a challenge to find a place to eat lunch. Yesterday I stopped at QFC and got a piece of baked chicken, took the skin off and had the meat. It certainly was not something to write home about but it worked. I was really running yesterday, I went from one thing to the next and by the time I had a moment to even stop and eat I was hunger. Deciding to stop at QFC and not Jack in the Box was a big thing for me. Because I am not doing bread there was really nothing for me to order and a fast food place anyways and no, I am not going to order something and take the bun off. Do you know how much fat and grease and stuff is in that processed meat??? Yuck. So I am figuring it out, a protein shake in the morning about 730, a boiled egg and a piece of celery with Laughing Cow Cheese on it around 10 to 1030, usually soup for lunch between 1230 and 130 and a protein drink around 430, dinner by 7. All small meals along with 30 min walk in the morning and 40 min cardio machine at the club in the evening, yep, just another day....