Picture still coming

Sorry the pictures are still coming hopefully today just need my daughters help.  Trying to get back on track with my eating although I can tell you I will be cheating a little today as we have homemade ice cream and apple pie but I will try to control myself.  I got in a 2 mile run this morning with lots of hills and heat and came home to cereal and watermelon.  My weight is back down to 238 so I will now begin to push for the 230 mark.

Goal Day, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Alright my goal for graduation day was to lose 50 pounds and I fell short of that which is the bad news, good news is I did lose 41 pounds and lost several inches that I will post below.  The ugly is a new picture of me that I will post this afternoon. : )


Measurements  (sad but true)     July 21, 2011
Neck 18                                                      16 3/4
chest 53                                                       47 1/2
upper abs 48                                                43
lower abs 53                                                45
waist 47                                                       43
r upper arm 16                                             14 1/2
l upper arm 15 1/2                                        14 1/2
r forearm 12 1/2                                           12
l forearm 12                                                 12
r thigh 27                                                     22
l thigh 26                                                      22
r calve 17                                                    16 1/2
l calve 17                                                     16 1/2
BMI   39.5                                                  33.3
32 Inches off my body

Still here

Sorry I relaxed on my post for a few day with finals, funerals and road trip but I am back and still remaining steady.  I have slacked off a little bit and it is time to begin recording all that I eat again.  I don't want to get knocked off my feet again.  Will post more later, just letting you know I am still here.

9 days till graduation

9 days till graduation also means 9 days to reach my goal.  Is it still possible?  Not to do it health.  I would have to lose 8 pounds in 9 days which I probably could do but not without gaining it all right back after graduation.  I will instead take it slow and steady and keep knocking it out one pound at a time and see where I land on graduation morning.  I did take the weekend off and ate really rather sloppy but compared to the way I was eating 6 months ago I looked like a health guru. I was a little nervous about stepping on the scale Monday morning but was happy to see it sat at 238.  I am getting back to the gym this week and yesterday spent a very hot day mowing the lawn and hitting the weights in the gym.  Mike the gym owner suggested I switch to weight lifting 3 days a week instead of two so I may have to give it a try.  Practice test

Panera bread what a bad choice

You seen how bad I ate yesterday evening but to plan for that I thougt I made a wise choice.  I was going to grab 2 white castles and split an onion ring with my wife for lunch but then I seen Panera Bread Company.  I ordered a half a veggie sandwich and bowl of brocolli soup.  Now I figured the soup would be higher in cals but the veggie sandwich would make up for it (what a mistake).  Tonight we looked up the half veggie sandwich which was 600 cals and the soup 300 plus the bread.  I could have saved 500 cals by eating at White Castle.  So with that meal and last nights free for all I probably had a weeks worth of cals,  I don't think I want to see Mondays scale.  Next time I will check ahead.

I've been poisoned

What in the world was I thinking.  I know that the experts say everyone is allowed a cheat day.  I understand the philosphy behind this statement but for me this is a really bad idea

I can give myself a cheat meal once in awhile but not a cheat day.  Yesterday I relaxed and I already told you about the McDonalds sandwich, but last night my daughter had friend over and made homemade pizza and choclate chip cookies.  How bad can this be?  Well I have posted how I made my heart happy but today I made my body mad.  I felt so gross after eating all of this food and then  I decided on a Sat morning run.  I felt like it was my first day of running ever, I was sluggish, out of breath and just felt bad.  I can understand the story of Daniel from the Bible when he challenged the king on the eating habits of Daniels compared to the kings men.  Just three weeks later the signs were evident that healthy eating was better for the body.  I have decided to put Mr Yuck stickers on all bad food for now on out and try to remember how bad it felt.  It definitly was not worth the misery that came with eating this way.  Sorry heart I will try to better next time.

Need a swift kick in the butt!

I admit I am needing motivation.  I really believe it has a lot to do with school but I need to be very careful.  I took my last test last night except for the final and now I know that I should easily pass. The problem is I am in a celebrating mood as I am almost finished with nursing school.  The celebrating I am wanting to do is eat so I must be very cautious.  I have not got to work out much this week due to studies and homework but at the end of clinicals on Sunday that should be done with as well.  I decided to give into a craving yesterday morning as McDonalds was running a special buy one get one bacon, egg, and cheese, biscuit. (no cheese) It was the nastiest thing I have ate in along time.  I am really getting used to home cooking and knowing what is in my food.  I am considering relaxing my diet for the weekend and kicking it back in on Monday. I know it will affect my overall goal but it may be just what I need mentally.

BLAh Blah Blah

Yesterday was the very last nursing lecture I have to sit through as a student and I am excited.  The only problem is at this point in class all I hear is blah, blah, blah.  My diet is kind of the same way.  It's the middle of the summer I am sick of studying, my short term goal is looking impossible and it is hard.  Do I feel like giving up, NO WAY!  I feel to good to give up and I can see improvements in every part of my life, my energy level is up, my confidence is up, even though Jill has always loved me I can tell she enjoys me losing weight as well.  What I need is a big boost.  I know it has more to do with the end of school situation than it does the diet but I will try to keep steady in both my studying and my diet.

survived the holidays, I think.

Yesterday was the fourth of July and lots of food and fun.  Started the day off with a 2 mile hill run to help prepare for the holiday eating that was in store. I didn't take baked chicken and decided to take my chances on the meat but took coleslaw made with Splenda recipe and dessert which was sugar free pudding with sugar free cool whip. Breakfast was fiber one cereal with a bowl of fruit and lunch wasn't until 2:00 which about killed a guy who has been eating about every 2-3 hours.  Dinner finally came and I tried to make wise choices and then had a hamburger patty without bun and a rib.  I was shocked that my body really did not like this much meat.  After the pork steak Sunday and then this I could tell my body would of much rather had chicken, fish or just plain veggies.  This is very weird for a guy who just a couple of years ago could have ate meat 3 meals a day and for dessert as well.  I am thankful for this change and for the next potluck will take a veggie main dish or some chicken breast.  I have got to figure out how to reach my goal without being eunhealthy in the was I approach it.  I am considering just running 5-6 days a week until graduation and staying off the elliptical machines.  Any suggestion could be helpful.

16th week weigh-in

Really struggling to make my graduation goal but I will get as close as possible.  17 days left to see how close I can get. Graduation goal is 50 pounds.

Beginning Total   280

2 Weeks ago      239

This Week         237

Total                   43 pounds

What a weekend

Friday was a great day and we worked hard at work but it was a lot of office style work and I knew we were heading to the Muny and dinner at Ponderosa.  I came up with a plan to hit the gym extra hard to balance some of the calories that I was sure to take in.  At the gym I hit the cardio machines and burned over 700 cals and then off to Ponderosa.  At Ponderosa I ate as good as possible and didn't get carried away and was very careful at the Muny to avoid all the junk food but was disappointed to come home and weigh 5 pounds more than I normally do in the evening (I know the evening is a bad time to weigh but sometimes it helps keep me on track especially after a trip out) so much for burning 700 cals or so I thought.   I woke up Sat morning ate a bowl of Fiber one cereal and outside to work.  About an hour later I was starving (I also took 2 ginger root pills) I came in after about 2 hours and ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and went back to work, another 2 hours and had a Hardee's turkey burger and baked chips another 2 hours we had dinner.  I was starving all day long yesterday and could not satisfy my hunger I went to bed 5 pounds less than the night before.  I do admit I worked my tail off yesterday as we worked outside during the heat warning from 7 am until about 8:30 pm so I know that played a major role as well..  This being Sunday a nice break will be taken and weights will be posted in the morning.

The test came back

A couple of weeks ago I had a blood test because of applying for new life insurance.  As time passed I was beginning to wonder if I had been rejected but yesterday the test results came back.  When I opened the envelope I was shocked at how extensive the blood test was.  Every thing you can imagine was tested but I was most interested in glucose levels and cholesterol levels.  Every single thing that was tested for was normal and in the middle, nothing even came close to being out of range which was a big change from when I started the diet.  My cholesterol and glucose were both in the warning ranges and needed to be taken care of quick.  PTL things are better and my weight is coming off.  I measured this morning and was very pleased at how many inches I lost. I will try to post results about this later.