| Height: | 172.7cm |
| Start weight: | 310.00lb |
| Current weight: | 267.20lb |
| Goal weight: | 155.00lb |
| Lost to date: | 42.80lb |
| Remaining: | 112.20lb |
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Today's my weigh-in day for the January-May "summer challenge" group:
267.2
-1.2 this week
-17.4 since starting MF 1/4/12
-18.4 in 2012
-42.8 overall
I've taken 6.5 points off my BMI!!
I've taken 42.8 of these off my body:
I'm not sure where (or how) Arby's got the tag line "Good Mood Food" because I have been in a pretty darned good mood this past 5 weeks not eating their food.
That was until I saw the commercial for their "Jamoca Cream Pie" - anyone that is a cream pie lover and likes their jamoca shakes... well, could be your thing!
Oh.My.God!
Things to NOT do to yourself when on a diet: buy a slice of pie!
Well. Let me tell you, friends.... I bought that slice of pie and by the grace of God, I only had one bite!
Seriously!
Jay thought I got it to "reward myself" for having done so good the past few weeks. Well, you know what?? I'm not a dog, I'm not rewarding myself food any longer!!
I wanted to try it, so I bought it and had one bite, put the rest away. Now, tonight is "baking night" because DS17's youth group is having a bake sale fundraiser this weekend for their trip to Tijuana.
Right now, I have 2 8" heart-shaped cakes in the oven baking and then I will bake 2 more.
Talk about testing myself tonight!! And, thank goodness Medifast knows how to do chocolate right and I have a brownie or soft bake cookie I can have for my own dessert in a little bit!
Have a great OP weekend, friends!
Sub-titled: I lost 16 freaking pounds in January!! 
1/1/12: 285.6
1/31/12: 269.6
Whoop! Whoop! WHOOP!!
"Oh my gawd" - Bart Simpson
I belong to "several" weight loss support groups here online and one of them is doing a January-May "challenge" I guess you could call it because they want to be swimsuit ready for summer.
I'm going on a cruise with my hunny at the beginning of May, so it's seemingly fitting, even though they're aiming for Memorial Day weekend, you know....?
Anyway, since Jan 1st was a Sunday, we have Sunday weigh-ins for this group...
268.8
-2.6 lbs this week
-15.4 since I started Medifast on the 4th
-16.8 since Jan 1st
-41.2 overall - WOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!
I have taken 6.1 points off my BMI from the heaviest!!
I don't want to be skinny. I'm not in this for the new clothing, even though my hunny says he'll buy me an entire wardrobe when I get to whatever my doctor and I call goal weight.
I have bought a couple of items for along the way to fit into (at like clearance prices) because it is important to look and feel good (and pretty) along the way and then will donate them out to Our Sister's Closet when I shrink out of them. That is a "charity" for ladies that are getting ready to transition from unemployment to the work world: for interviews, etc and to look nice on the job.
I am in this for the health. I need to look at my mother sitting in that hospital bed having had her 2nd hip replacement surgery (both done now) in 3 ish years and she's either got borderline Type 2 Diabetes or she's in denial at actually having it, she has COPD and she's got a family history of heart issues and something "wacky" with her pre-op EKG that almost caused the surgeon to cancel 10 minutes before surgery.
I don't want that to be me. I don't want to say breast cancer is "easy" because I know you can die from that too, but I want breast cancer to be the only worry in my future. Not high blood pressure, diabetes, COPD, high cholesterol, heart issues, etc etc etc.
THIS is what drives me to stay OP each day.
YES, I know "they" (WW, etc) say 1-2 lbs per week weight loss is healthy, but the plan I am on, "they" say if you follow the plan, you can lose 2-5 lbs per week safely and they have a great transition and maintenance plan that I intend to get to and follow to stay at goal weight forever when I get there.
I hope you are all having a great weekend and making plans for a 100% OP new week!! Onward and downward!!
Oiy!! OMG!
OK, so I started the day taking mom to the hospital for her hip replacement surgery. I was there 5-ish (yes, a.m.) until 7:30 when they took her in to the O.R. to put her to sleep.
Went to work and they were having team potluck today: soups, chili, stews was the theme, so there were lots of creamy soups and chilis and LOTS of bread/rolls and cookies for dessert. Oh, there was 1 salad.
I had salad and a tiny touch of chicken chili (it looked the least harmful) and NO BREAD OR COOKIES!!
OMG go me!!
So. fast forward to 1:30 p.m. and I got off work and was going to go check in with my mother real quick before going home. I got there at 2 p.m. and she was STILL in the recovery area. HOLY CRAP! So I went to her room and sat there for about 30 minutes and then went down to the surgery waiting room and asked if there was an update on when she'd be in her room and was told "15 minutes" so I decided at this point I needed to eat something and went to the cafe'.... it was before "dinner time" and nothing "healthy" on the dinner menu anyway, so I got some salad from the build-it-yourself salad bar and a bottle of water.
When I got back up to her room, she had been settled in with some crackers, water, ice chips and broth. I gave her a 7-up type soda. She was like why that and I said because I didn't think they'd let her have pepsi tonight.
She was in recovery for 4 hours because her blood pressure went down to the 75 over something range. YIKES!! The nurse on her floor had told me they couldn't bring her up until whatever medicine they were giving into her I.V. to raise the blood pressure was done running into it. Or something like that.
Anyway. Go me for having salad and chicken chili only at the potluck and salad/water only at the hospital.
Hope you all had a great week and will have a wonderful OP weekend!
That's a 3 week total of 12.4 lbs gone... that's averaging a little over 4 lbs per week... WHOOP!!
Onward and downward!
That's 14.2 lbs for those of you that do not have a calculator handy LOL!!
5.8 points off my BMI from my highest weight 310... WHOOP!!
Take that, fat girl! I am doing this! Onward and downward!
Snow plow things came by today. It was such a sloppy mess from rain and melting after the big storm it was more a grader thingy and dump truck looking thing pushing the snow than an actual plow, as I know them.
So, I got to go shovel the berm away so mom could move her car back to the front street.
35 minutes later = 436 calories burned off
WOW!!
We got about 18 inches of snow at my house in about a 36-hour period of time. It takes the city 4 days to do a full city plow. With mom's surgery scheduled for next "weekend" (Friday) I cannot risk her getting sick taking my kids to and from, so I canceled the trip.
NOW it's supposed to warm up and rain (yay, flooded streets) and then have another storm come through Monday/Tuesday.
In the midst of all of this, I have the nigglings of a cold. HOW MUCH does snot weigh?? Scale's doing great, I am down 11.8 lbs in the past 17 days being OP Medifast, so not concerned, just wondering when this cold breaks free how much I will release with it.
Work is going crazy again. I get a new client this week and then we're re-structuring how the team operates, so I get 6 clients from 2 other Account Reps.... N-I-C-E-E-E-E
Honestly, we've never caught up and been the same since they cut 10 positions from our team 18 months ago. Some people on our team have been working overtime that entire time. This week work supervisor said she may have to make it mandatory (for those of us that have not been working it) and I said I am not doing overtime to do someone else's job when I can get mine done in an 8 hr day, staffing is not my problem, it's theirs. They need to hire another 1-2 people. Not my issue, theirs.
So. Anyway. I hope you all have a great weekend. Stay safe, dry and warm.
YAY!! It would have been more, but I pulled a stunt with sweet potato fries at Outback Steakhouse last weekend.
Not worth it.
I'm supposed to go to CA this weekend, but not sure if it can happen due to WINTER STORM ADVISORY.
UGH.
