Weigh in day!

After the bad day eating Friday, I was really nervous about weigh in today. No need to be though, I lost 10.4 pounds! That makes 22 pounds in two weeks and my weight is now at 375.2! I am hoping to be under 370 next week. I was doing a little math in my head and hear is how I hope this goes long term (yes, I know I should just focus on one day at a time, but its fun to plan too): If I can lose 8 more pounds by end of this month (total 30), and average 3 pounds lost a week July - December (72 pounds) than I can be at 295 pounds and 102 lost by January 1st! That would put me within 50 pounds of what would probably be my goal. Obviously, I have not been under 300 pounds in years so I am not sure if 245 will be a good weight for my 6' 3" frame or not, but it would have to be close I would assume. I know I will never be skinny, I just want to be fit and not obese.

Lets get back to now. Today I ate like crap. I went without eating until after our 1pm weigh in. Than I proceeded to eat 2 biscuits, ham and baked spaghetti...and that was just from 130 - 330. At home I had two baked potatoes (w/margerine), two biscuits, ham and a slice of cheese. The food was courtesy of a family friend (I just think of her as my cousin) and it was so good that I just lost all control (story of my life). She is an awesome cook and does catering. My mom was fortunate enough to get some of the leftovers she made to take some work off of her feeding my kids and my friends kids that she keeps while we work. I just happened to inherit some of it as well. I appreciate every bite of that good food...but starting back tomorrow, no more of that kind of stuff. Back to lean protein, veggies, grains and fresh fruit. Grocery day tomorrow, so I can restock on the good stuff. It really is one day/meal at a time. Today I just laid down at every battle and let food win. Tomorrow I reload and kick some butt! The scale is moving down and my confidence is moving up, things are going good and I am confident the non-weight loss issues in my life are going to get better also.

At home sick today

Maybe a minor stomach bug is just what I needed for tomorrow's weigh in! (just kidding, I am glad to be feeling better)

Woke up this morning with nausea and all the typical upset stomach symptoms. About noon I finally got up and moved around. I'm feeling close to good as new right now. For lunch I had a pack of tuna and an apple. I know it isn't much, but I was afraid to eat much (both from being blah this morning and the thought of weigh in tomorrow). Tonight I will have a healthy choice dinner. Right now, I'm just relaxing and enjoying time with the kids. Not much else to write, but maybe by tonight I'll have more.

Rough day

Slept in today until about 1 partly due to up too late last night, partly due to not feeling great. After a bad night (eating wise) on Friday and fried tortillas with mexican toppings last night, I needed a good day today. Didn't happen. I had one left over tostada (not bad), followed by turkey burger and baked potato (again, not bad). Come tonight though, it went south. Had four slices of frozen pizza, way too many honey roasted almonds and a rice crispy treat. All in all it wasn't as bad as my pre-eating well days, but with a weigh in Tuesday, I should have ate better. Tomorrow I have to be on my A game and not screw up, same for Tuesday. Not much else going on. Just frustrated today with how I keep falling down with my eating habits. There is always tomorrow and I do better at work anyway. I am really nervous I am going to have a gain this week for not watching what I eat well. Two days to make amends with the scale.

Son's birthday party gives cause to cheat...

And now I feel like crap for it! I ended up at the pizza buffet/arcade for my son's 9th birthday meal. I figured I would have 2 pieces of pizza, a salad or two and just watch my son have a good time. Here is what happened instead...

Had watermelon at work for breakfast...good
Had roast beef sub and small fries at Arbys...not tragic, first fried food in over a week. didn't add a jr. roastbeef to my combo or supersize it like I used to.

Then the nose dive into failure. Started with a salad. One bite into the funky lo-cal dressing on it and I knew I was done. So I figured I would get 3 pieces of pizza. Not as bad as it sounds since the slices are about 4 inches long and maybe 1 1/2 inches wide, about the 1/3rd of the size of a regular slice of pizza. So one slice of buffalo chicken pizza, one slice of bbq chicken pizza and one slice of bacon and onion pizza. Than round two. 2 more buffalo chicken and 2 more bacon and onion slices. Than round three. Pasta with alfredo sauce, 2 more slices buffalo chicken and one more slice bacon and onion.

The tailspin continued with a piece of birthday cake. (which, I planned that part. it is my boy's cake. It's not like it's a regular ol party cake or something, it's special)

And the explosion when I hit the bottom was when I had another piece of cake at about 9:30.

So damage control begins tomorrow. I have until Tuesday (the next weigh in) to get my crap in gear and recover from today's gazillion calories! The plan for attack is simple and is as follows:
Don't beat myself up over one bad day.
Get out of the house tomorrow (weather permitting) and walk/shoot baskets.
Eat lean and light!
Drink water all day.

The day was a weight loss adventure breakdown, but that is just a small thing in the day. Being with family and celebrating Austin's birthday was great. Watching video of Chloe's talent show performances from today made me proud to have such an awesome daughter. I am blessed with a great family! My friends are awesome to. I don't have many true friends and don't see them much now, but I know they are there for me and they know I am there for them. In the famous words of Ice Cube, Today was a good day!

Contest standings released

Today the weigh in results were released. I ranked 4th overall with 2.97% lost!

Have ate well today, but tonight almost went too dark side. Had an overwhelming urge to eat everything for about an hour. I'm good now though. As usual, not much else to say. Was really missing my ol' work buddies today, but after I texted them and heard back I was fine. I guess it will just take a little while to get used to them not being there. Well, I am not going to stay up as late as I did last night so I will close this post up.

I can't go back to eating like an idiot. I have did great so far and no food is worth screwing that progress up! The goal for next weeks weigh in on 6/15 is 7 pounds. That would put me at under 380lbs.

WEIGH IN DAY!!!

Let me get right to it...I lost 11.8 lbs this week!!!!!! I weighed in at 385.6. I believe that is about 2.96% lost. Was very happy and came home and carried the motivation into taking a walk tonight.

So for the rest of the day...Got my blood drawn for a health screening, got a lot of stuff done at work and had a good walk with the family. The big thing was the weight loss for week 1 for me! Tomorrow we should see where I rank against the others and I will post it tomorrow. So, off to bed I go with a smile on my face!

Monday Monday

The weekend is always too short. For a Monday though, I can't complain. Work was efficient and not too long winded. Took mom to store afterwards and while I was gone, Crystal and Chloe mowed the yard...Score! Ate good and healthy today. Now I look forward to the first elimination weigh in of the contest. The three people with the lowest percent of weight loss for the week are kicked off contest. Today I weighed and was down 10 pounds. Let's just hope nothing I ate today was high in sodium so I'm not up tomorrow. The weigh in is at 430pm!!!! Usually I don't like to eat before a weigh in, but there is no way I can go that far into the day without food. So the gameplan for tomorrow is watermelon at breakfast and a pack of tuna at lunch. This should cover me until I get home to make grilled chicken and veggies. It's late and I gotta take kids to school in the morn, so goodnight.