It's gone!

The weight I gained from the three week stupidity is gone! Today I weighed at our gym at work and was 11 pounds lighter than Friday!!! My weight is now 362 pounds. That is 41 pounds lighter than my 11/29/10 startup. I got to looking at my little notebook of weigh in totals, I was actually 405 pounds back in December of 2008. I thank God that I got my crap together and am going down the right path now!

I have found two new podcast that are pretty good. They cover some things I personally found do not hold true, but do offer a lot of good info. Once is called "Cut the Fat" and the other is "Dr. Fitness and the Fat Guy". These podcast, along with Fat 2 Fit Radio are great tools to use while I'm at work listening to the IPod.

A good friend of mine had a great idea for us to email each other what we ate and how we exercised each day. Even though I use myfitnesspal.com to track calories, it doesn't keep me accountable like showing someone else. Since we both have the common goal of health and fitness, this will be a good method of support. It's nice to have the encouragement and help of friends and family.

I am going to tweak the way I eat based off some of the info I have looked at. I am cutting out white bread, white rice, enriched pasta, potatoes, sugar, crackers and chips. I am also ditching any other processed junk food. I am going to commit to get back to eating only unprocessed foods and cut out fried foods. My diet will consist of baked/grilled chicken, turkey, fish and eggs and low fat cheeses for my protein. My carbs will primarily by brown rice, wheat pasta (occasionally) and oatmeal. All veggies and most fruits will make up the rest of my foods. I guess it will be a modified low carb diet, but no high fat meats and I won't be eliminating all carbs. It may sound like a complicated eating plan, but really I am just avoiding refined and processed foods. Lastly, I will be drinking at least 64 ounces of water a day and exercising at least 30 minutes a day.

As I said before, I have until July 23rd to lose as much weight as possible before vacation. I gotta get stricter and do this! That's all for now peeps.