Day 52 - SPECIAL REPORT - My Starting Weight Revealed!!!

Weigh-In - Down 19 total (-1.2 from yesterday)  Ok, so believe it or not, we have reached the moment where I am willing to share my actual weight with you.  I had said that there was a "certain point" when I would be willing to do this.  I have reached that point.  The point was 18.4 pounds. Why you ask?  Because it put me at a nice round number and a number that I have advertised before - such as in my last installment of J-Doc.  This was more or less the weight I started at last time I tried to diet.  my current weight is 229.3 which means that 52 days ago, when I started this journey, I weight a whopping 248.3!!!!!!!  By far, my highest ever. 

Ya know, in HS, I specifically remember being on my "cucumber diet" and being DOWN to 153 my senior year.

                                    

     

In College, my senior year diet when I ran with Ben every morning before student teaching - I got DOWN to 173. 
                               

                         

  

Then my "Fat weight" was 200. I promised never to reach 200.  Whoops! 

 This was early in my teaching time.

                    

      

Then there was the time prior to my wedding, when I had pneumonia where I got DOWN to 206.

From there - 3.5 years later, I had gained 42 pounds.  42 months, 42 pounds.  That's a pound a month, for you math majors.  Think about that.  1 pound doesn't really sound like a big thing.  BUT 1 pound a month  for 3 1/2 years - and that's how you get out of control, slowly but surely.   Here's a progression:

                                                          

                                                   

                                                  

So here we are today - and I'm pretty proud of the progress so far.  I want to get under 200, so the total I'm hoping for is at least 50 pounds.  That would be put me back where I was when I started teaching and I think that's a fair expectation.  Wish me luck!  I'm 38% of the way there.

Now - on to today's food!

Breakfast - Spicy Sausage, Pepper and onion omelet (no cheese) with a glass of Trop 50 OJ.  This was good!  Should have taken a photo!

Lunch - Leftover burrito stuff - not with the zucchini though.  Just the meat, corn, black beans, etc. . . . Threw some buffalo sauce on it for good measure.

**Just a side note - I'm drinking water like a mad man today.  On my 5th bottle now.  Very refreshing, and filling!

Snacking - peanut butter pie,  a few slices of pepperoni - trying to stay away from chips, rice Krispie treats, etc. . . . . .

Dinner - Ok, so dinner was a little weird.  I had brought the leftover zucchini burritos but forgot to eat them at work, once again!  Then when I went to drive home, I could not figure out why I was so hungry.  I stopped at 7-Eleven and grabbed a slurpee.  just a slurpee.  Nothing else, I promise.  Then I realized that the rest of my food was at school.  I went back to grab it so Kristyn can have it for lunch tomorrow.  When I got home, I had a peanut butter sandwich and a slice of cheese. 

Snacking - none tonight.  Watched some Yankees (SWEEP! WAHOO!  I know it was the White Sox, but you can't put them down for not having a great record against bad teams and then not give them credit for beating the bad teams when they actually do!)  Then did some Facebook photos for the kiddies and now about to go to bed.