Week 2

Well, Fathers day was not good for me. I fell off the waggon. I could see it coming though, so I just tried to not go back to old habits completely. I will tell you that there was a prime rib buffet, and a church pancake breakfast involved. But here is the cool thing. Come Monday, it was so easy to get back to the plan. It was effortless as a matter of fact. I went to the box in the kitchen, picked out five meals, and you know what? After a week of this plan, I was still looking forward to eating the meals. I had a moment where I wanted to put off the plan and stop at McDonald's, and then I thought of my wife, who will be coming back on July 10 or 11. You see I haven't told her I am doing this. If I am successful she will freak.
So I have to be successful, because seeing Jeannette Freak is really cool!

I have also decided to forget about the scale for a while and just try to focus my energy where it needs to be. Which, by the way, is much easier with fewer calories, and lots less energy devoted to figuring out what I am going to eat.

Later All.
Ross

climbing over the first wall.

12

I didn't blog yesterday, because it was a "Hit the wall day."
At 6:30 AM I got out of bed and hit the scales, I have to tell you I was disappointed. When the digital scales stopped flashing to let me know that it had honed in on my new svelte weight, and I got close enough to see without my glasses, the numbers were exactly the same as the day before.

It is quite strange when that happens, all these words hit you, Failure, Fat, Fool, Freak, maybe even one or two you can't really throw out there for public consumption. I felt deflated and really a bit underpowered to continue.

But then I ask myself, "What is the truth in this situation?" Well that wasn't hard to find, if I stepped back and looked at my experience over the last week, I was 9 pounds down, I was sleeping much better, I had more energy during the day, and the feelings of the F words, well those things are not tied to what the scale said. Those things weren't true when I felt good about myself, why would they be true because the scale didn't say what I wanted? The truth was that for the first time in a long time, I was moving in the right direction. I was doing something that was good for my body, mind, and spirit. So I asked myself a new question, instead of was I better than yesterday, I asked was I better this Thursday than last Thursday?

Yep!
Psalm 73:26 (New King James Version)

26 My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

-9
Beginning of day 4. Scales said 211. Had a small mental breakdown last night. As I was reading my information again I looked at the list of acceptable veggies and realized that I had brussel sprouts for two meals, including last night. AAAHHHHH! Brussel sprouts are not approved. Too many carbs for the fatburning stage of this plan. On the good side, I had two meals with brussel sprouts and still lost 9 pounds at the beginning of my 4rth day.

Got to tell ya, this stuff works so well. You don't get hungry, you don't have alot of prep time, you have a whole lot of choice and the weight just falls off. WooooHooo!

My thinking about food is changing also. I no longer seek comfort from cheeseburgers.

7.5

Psalm 73:26 (New King James Version)

26 My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Good Morning,
Starting Day 3 of my culinary intake and thought adjustment process. Scale said 212.5. I am really amazed how easy this is going. I had eggs for breakfast today at 9:30 at 12 I will have a fruit punch, at 2:30 chicken noodle soup, at 5:00 a protien bar, at 8:00 a chicken breast with a salad, and green beens, if I need a snack at 10 or so I'll have some cinnimon rice crisps. To bed around 12 and that will be my day. Amazingly if you eat a little something every 2-3 hours you never get hungry. That cuts my caloric intake down from 4000 or so calories to about 1000calories per day.
We'll talk soon.

Psalm 73:26 (New King James Version)

26 My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

I decided yesterday that some things in my life need some work. (No suprise huh.?) So I spoke with two clients who have recently changed thier eating habits and lost quite a bit of weight and today I'm jumping in.

I have always known that my love of food was pretty unhealthy. I alone can spend around $18.00 at Sonic. Often I will eat a little something for breakfast, and then go pretty much all day 10-12 hours before eating again. Sometimes I'll grab a poptart or a handful of nuts. But at the end of the day I have become ravenous. Eating copious amounts of anything in sight. Usually from a drive through or restaraunt. Which I'm sure has contributed to my tight budgetary situation of late.
So today it's all going to change.

My flesh and my heart fail; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

I am starting out with exitement and anticipation. I don't really have a goal except to be healthier and break my addiction to food. But for the purposes of tracking I guess 50 pounds would be a good goal.

I started today off with a blueberry oatmeal at 7 am. It's now 10 am and I am having a glass of tropical fruit punch. The scale said 220 this morning. Ok hang on here we go.