Monday Morning Weigh-In #7

What a great way to start off Labor Day!! I don't have to work and I lost another 4.6 pounds to bring my total weight loss in 7 weeks to 44.6 pounds!! I was kind of figuring I would only lose maybe 2-3 pounds tops but it came in much better. Very good week and a great start for a Monday morning.

A Little Fishy

Tonight for dinner I had a swordfish steak. It was really, really good. Other than that, I did have a pretty good day. My legs aren't killing me although they are a little stiff. I've tried to stretch out all day and it is helping. The weather was just beautiful out again and I did go out to a few places to run some errands.

I'm watching Mad Men....dang this is an excellent show. What an episode! I'm planning on going for a walk tomorrow. I might not walk the Wabash Trail the whole way but I am going to go out for another walk to stretch out my legs...I really need it.

Hopefully I've lost a couple of pounds when I weigh in tomorrow. I really want to get to 50 pounds lost but I know that is still a few weeks away. I'll be really happy when I get there.

The Wabash Trail

I'm really tired tonight. This afternoon I decided I'd go for a walk on a trail that isn't too far from me, the Wabash Trail. I'm trying to break in a pair of shoes as well so I wore those. I wasn't sure how far I was going to go but about halfway down the trail, I just decided I'd do the whole thing. That amounts to about 4 1/4 miles. My left foot is a little bit sore but other than that and a little stiffness, I'm not doing too badly. I hope to start doing this a couple of times a week while the weather is still good and this was a good start.

Otherwise, it was a really nice day. Great weather, windows open, some college football on and just a little more than a week to go until the first day of full football...I know there's a Thursday night game and while that will be great, Sunday is the day.

Got a couple of things I hope to do tomorrow but things are going really well for me right now and I'm feeling pretty fantastic.

No Post Last Night????

I got yelled at by my dad tonight. Well, maybe 'yelled at' is too harsh a term. I was asked why I did not post last night. To tell you the truth, for one night, I kinda forgot about the blog. I was watching football and listening to football through the computer. Go Cowboys! Anyways, it just slipped my mind to post and that's gonna happen from time to time.

I've had a good couple of days though. Walked quite a bit and ate well. I'm really happy it's a 3-day weekend and I don't have much to do. I've got many of my things done tonight and I'll hopefully be watching a buttload of college football tomorrow. I'll probably go for a walk tomorrow as well with the weather being so nice.

On a stupid note, I listened to a 2-part BS Report from Wednesday that was about 2 hours long on nothing but Beverly Hills 90210. It was a lot of fun and pretty great since Wednesday was 9-02-10....get it?? 90210 day...haha! Gosh my Friday nights are exciting!!!!

Pants!

Pants have always been a struggle for me. I know that might sound kinda dumb but pants just seem to be tight on me. I'm big with a large waist and fat thighs. Some pants have just never really fit me right. I've normally had to buy a little larger just b/c of my legs. Tonight I decided to be daring and try on some pants that have been hanging in my closet, un-worn, for quite awhile. At one point I fit into these but that's been probably 9 months ago or more. These are pants that are 2 sizes smaller than my current pants.....THEY FIT!!!! AND, they fit pretty comfortably. What a great feeling!

I don't want to steer you wrong, all of my pants are from a big and tall store and have the side extenders on them so they actually go out further from the listed size. But, I haven't been able to put these on and button them in awhile. I got up to a pretty large pant size that I'm not too proud of but I'm working my way down. I'm very excited by this and with a load of laundry this weekend, I'm going to start wearing these pants to work next week. It'll just be something extra that I can feel good about, just a tangible benefit and one step closer to being able to wear even more clothes that have just been folded up or hanging in my closet for months or years. One more step. I'm pretty proud and pretty happy tonight....pretty proud.

Bug Killer

There was a bad side effect of eating a lot of fresh produce this past weekend. I had to throw away a few things that had gone bad....some green beans, what was left of a head of lettuce and some other items. Nothing major but was just time to rotate things out and get new fruits and vegetables. Anyways, there was evidently something yummy in my garbage can because when I went to throw things away, I got a bunch of little gnats/flies/whatever. They were flying all over! Just ticked me off and me with no bug spray. Well, I got some spray and then I tricked them...yep, I have more brain power than gnats/flies/whatever. I know that will shock many of you who know me but it's true, it's true!

So, I got a new cantaloupe tonight and threw away the rind and some old cantaloupe into a smaller garbage can that I would take out tonight. BUT, I let it sit out for a little while. I came back to it with my bug spray and they were all over it. The trap had been set and it had delivered. I sprayed all over and killed most, if not all, of those little bastards. BRAD 1, GNATS/FLIES/WHATEVER 0!!!!

As you can probably tell, my day was fairly boring and this served as a welcome victory in a day of stupid mistakes. Eating was fine and did a lap and a half around the building on a short afternoon break with my buddy Teresa(see, walk with me and you'll get a shout-out!).

Drafting Is Over!

I went to my 4th and final Fantasy Football Draft tonight. I love my leagues and the competition because I love football. But I am glad when my drafts are all over. Now I can just settle in and hope none of my players gets hurt.

We had our draft at Godfather's Pizza. I did have the buffet for dinner. I had a small salad, two slices of pizza, one breadstick, one quesadilla triangle and a little spoonful of pasta. It's not an ideal dinner but I really did hold myself in check and was full after what I had. It was really good and I felt good that I was able to control myself. My friend Jeremy was there to help me out and be my secondary "conscience" but it really wasn't necessary. I do thank him for being there to help me out if I had needed someone to pull me back in from the edge.

Overall I did have a good day and still stayed under 2000 calories so that was important to me. I'm down 40 pounds and still have about...well, about 200 pounds to go and lose. It's a long way but I keep just trying to look at it in 20-pound increments. It just doesn't seem too big a thing then, even though it's a long way off. I'm just continuing to battle and keep up the good fight.