Quick Challenge

To inspire me to hit the 60 lb mark for next week, I've set up a challenge. If I don't make it, I will buy Adam this!

Whew!

This was a close one. Again, yet another week without exercise, another week with my customer from hell, another week of celebrating yet another something. And while this may be my worst weekly loss, it's still almost a pound and it's in the right direction. Today was another hard day, my customer is a casino and we had to have lunch at their buffet. But I don't have to go back for at least a week, so back to exercise and normal eating routines!

Oh yeah, 1.4 lbs to go for 60 lbs!!!!! ;-)

Weight Tracking Summary

Your current weight: 214 lbs
Weight change since your last recorded weight: -0.8 lbs
Total weight change to date: -58.6 lbs

Another Good Week

I wanted to get to my 60lb loss in 3 weeks, was hoping to just chill out and relax on the weight loss thing. I haven't been able to exercise now for 2 very long weeks, because I've been stuck at the nexus of all evil, one of my customers. Apparently negative stress has it's weight loss advantages. Probably bad for the heart and blood pressure though! ;-)

But now after this week, 60lbs is within reach. I don't mind if I don't make it, but I hate to miss it by just a few ounces!

Anyway, nothing much since last week, except I got through my birthday unscathed and still had a lot of fun.

Today's Weight: 214.8
Weekly Weight Change: -2.8 lbs
Total Weight Change: -57.8 lbs

Birthday Wishes

So lucky me, seriously, that my birthday landed on a weigh in day. The reason is that I'm quite sure dinner had more calories that I'm allowed in 2 days. It was a seared Ahi with a wasabi cream sauce, fried wontons and rice. It was accompanied by 2 beers and since it was my birthday, a piece of decadent chocolate cake. But hey, it IS my birthday, right? And it was AFTER my weigh in, and I got all week to lose it!!! Sara made me promise I wouldn't count points today and just have fun, which is exactly what I did.

We had dinner at a restaurant along the water on the other side of San Diego bay. We drove there, but just as we were leaving a water taxi pulled up to drop some people off. Lily and I decided to take a ride and took the water taxi back across the bay and Sara picked us up in the car on the other side. It was a really nice night.

So as a present to myself apparently, I also had good news on the weigh in side of things:

Today's Weight: 217.6 lbs
Weekly Loss: 2.2 lbs
Total Loss: 55 lbs

55, I love that, nice even numbers. So the next goal of course is 60 lbs, but I'm going to give myself a break and budget 3 weeks for that. I have not exercised in over a week and a half. I have been living in the 95th circle of hell during that time at a customer, my worst one ever. It's early morning and late nights every single day. But between that, burning off this dinner, and the fact that the lighter I am the harder it is to lose weight, I think 3 weeks is an ok number.

So after 60 I'm knocking on the door of being under 210. And when I do that, wow, you know how HUGE being under 200 would be. It would be my singular focus. I think I'll cry. But those are my goals, I feel like it's so close, I had given up ever being in this position again.

It's taught me a lot to go through this, AGAIN. The first time was easy, but I let myself go and I was too proud to go back and seek help at weight watchers before it got out of hand. That won't happen again. I'm not saying that I won't struggle, just that I won't be too proud to go back to WW. And then of course, the fact that it's never too late, and you can do it again, even if it is hard. Looking back, it's only been 5 months and I've lost 55 lbs. I'm a new person, and that really wasn't too long. In fact, I've been enjoying the benefits since the first week.

Either way, time to enjoy the rest of my birthday.

New Goals Achieved

I forgot to write about this before, but I had a hidden goal that I wasn't sure I'd make. Or at least, I thought I might make it at the nose. I weigh in on Thursday, and next Thursday is my birthday. Well, I wanted to be in the "teens" (21x lbs) by my birthday. I thought perhaps that I'd have a chance by next week, but I barely scraped by this week.

Current Weight: 219.8 lbs
Weekly Loss: 2.8 lbs
Total Loss: 52.8 lbs

New Goal: 210 lbs by fathers day. Another VERY aggressive goal, but if I'm even close I'll be REALLY happy, that'll put me in good shape for being under 200 lbs by WI. I do know that these big weekly weight losses will taper down, but I'm not complaining now.

It could be harder

So being on jury duty the last week opened my eyes to how lucky I am to have my job. I really enjoy what I do, but that's not it. It's the flexibility. My 9-5 job at jury duty, then taking care of Lily when I got home until she went down around 8pm, left me with little time and even less energy to work out. Usually when I've gone to the pool or for a run it's been in the middle of the day, between appointments or just during a down time.

Lucky me!

Before & After

BEFORE

AFTER










30 more pounds to go, but will I LOOK LIKE THIS?











well, as long as I DON'T LOOK like this I guess!

Pictures to come

It just doesn't get any closer. In reality, I probably didn't make it because I ate less than normal today before weigh in to stack the deck in my favor, but either way I made it!

Today's Weight: 222.6 lbs
Weekly Loss: 2.6 lbs
Total Loss: 50.0 lbs

With jury duty I can't post during the day, but I'll post my promised before/after pics as soon as I can!