Weigh day!

Boom!

My new weight is 248. For those of you bad at math, thats 8 pounds down in 7 days. I can't imagine it will be this dramatic every week, but NO COMPLAINTS!

Only 38 more to go.

Not a bad week!

The "worst" meal I had was tonight. That was 2 of those new fresca burritos at Taco bell. Man, that was so good. The most fat I've had at one sitting (9 grams) in a week! I'm very happy :-) I have to do a 10 mile run tomorrow so I did want some extra nutrition in me.

I've had some difficulty with fatigue this week. I need to find the right balance of food and exercise. Otherwise, I'm going to fight headaches and won't have to energy to do ANYTHING let alone getting up at 3:45 and doing the show.

I had an email asking me if I'm taking any supplements. Not really. I'm taking some fish oil pills (as directed from the doctor) and I'm doing some acai berry detox for 2 weeks. Having said that, I will be making a trip down to Complete Nutrition and picking up some much needed supplies.

onward and upward!

I'm hungry

Yep, I wanna eat some buffalo wings. I'm not sure why I'm craving wings, but I am. Sometimes just talking about food makes me dream a little dream about their yummy goodness

Today has been one of the harder days so far. I've only been watching my intake since Saturday, January 16th and I must say, it's been fairly easy thus far... until today

Having said that, it could be because I've been up since 3:45am (it's 10:30 now) and have only consumed about 500 calories.

I ran 4 miles yesterday and awakened with a monster hunger. The 1/4 bowl of granola cerial just didn't cut it

I'm having a difficult time staying away from the scale daily. I know I should limit myself to once a week, but it is very tough. Maybe tomorrow... maybe tomorrow

Here we go

Here I am. In full glory. I'm not sucking in the gut, not looking down to minimize the double chin and not smiling. Not a pretty picture, is it?

In short, I'm tired of being this way.

Maybe you're like me. I was the "fat kid" in elementary school and I swear, the names I was called still haunt me. In high school, I was an athlete but bever felt like one. I always felt like the "fat kid." Well, no more.

I hit the big 40 on June 15th this year. Now, I know I'm not going to be at my goal weight by then (should have stared sooner), but I certainly can make a huge dent in the progress.

I have been wanting to do this for a long time. However, my eye opener was when my Doctor told me I needed to lose weight or I was going to run into some health problems. Enough said, Doc! I'm on board!

I'm training for a marathon on Memorial weekend. So, as I chronicle my daily routines, you may notice I'm running a lot. now you know why.

If you want to join me on this venture, I would love to have you on board. You can email me and I will include your progress along with mine!

Yipee, let's get it going! Weigh days will be on Monday and measurments will come once a month.

Age- 39

Height - 6'3"

Weight - 256 (Goal of 210)

Neck - 17

Chest - 47

Waist - 45