Fat Guy Skinny Wallet

Last week was another great week. Even though we went to Moe’s Southwest Grill for dinner one day last week, we still managed to eat extremely well. I am still fine-tuning my vegetable/fruit juice mix (garlic, ginger, and lemons are so overpowering); but I am really excited to be juicing almost every day!

I also worked out and/or ran every day last week. I decided to stick with the 2nd DVD in the Debbie Siebers’ Slim in 6 series (Ramp it Up), instead of doing my normal “marine workout“ (ok, it’s not really a workout taken from the USMC or anything, but since my marine buddy showed it to me, that’s what I’ll call it). The workout is hard, especially because Debbie works your entire body, but that is why I enjoy it so much!

We have also been watching a bunch of documentaries about the food industry or just health in general, and they have kept us motivated to stay on track.

I am still extremely happy with my new job, and I actually feel as though I am making a contribution already. I haven’t done any push ups at work yet, so it will be interesting to see how they react to that (hopefully, no one will walk by my office when I do them) .

I have had so much energy this week, and it feels great to know that I am treating my body better than ever!

There have been some changes to our finances and financial management as well, but I’ll talk about those details later this week.

I didn’t get to do 100 push ups every day last week; mainly because the main workout works my shoulders and triceps so much. I want to do it this week, but I will probably wait until the evenings. I put up my 2nd push up video for the 100 push ups challenge as well; I managed to improve on my first round score of 8 (you’ll have to click through to the video to see how many I did this time ).

Since I set a pretty much impossible goal 2 weeks ago – to lose 22.8 lbs by Memorial Day weekend (approximately 21 days) – I am really thinking about breaking the scale! Instead, I’ll just work hard and see what happens (you can click on any week to see the details)…

Now On To The Weigh In

Week 0 (First Weigh In) – 287

Week 1 -280.0

Week 2 – 279.2

Week 3 – 278.0

Week 4– 276.4

Week 5 – 270.8

Week 6 – 269.0

Week 7 – 267.4

Week 8 – 266.6

Week 9 – 262.4

Week 10 – 261.2

Week 11 – 259.0

Week 12 – 258.6

Week 13 – 260.0

Week 14 – 256.2

Week 15 – 258.4

Week 16 – 256.0

Week 17 – 254.0

Week 18 – 257.0

Week 19 – 255.2

Week 20 – 258.0

Week 22 – 256.2

Week 23 – 259.8

Week 24 – 253.8

Week 25 – 251.4

As you can see, my extremely short-term goal of getting under 250 lbs has eluded me once again. I really think that 250 is sitting somewhere laughing at me! It’s a barrier that I haven’t crossed since I had my first (and only) Crohn’s flair up and lost 50 lbs in 6 weeks!

I managed to lose 2.4 lbs last week, so I don’t feel bad about my efforts at all. I am so close to being in the 240′s, that I can taste it. In order to meet my  Memorial Day Weekend goal, I still have to lose about 14.4 lbs over the next 11 days! Again, it probably won’t happen, but that doesn’t mean I won’t push myself to meet my goal – in a healthy manner, of course.

This brings my 25-week weight loss total to 35.6 lbs, and 40.6 lbs from my all-time high. Being down over 40 lbs from my highest weight is a big accomplishment, and it makes me feel that all of this hard work has been worth it.

One of my best friends has lost nearly 10 lbs in 2 weeks, so please head over to her new blog and give her some encouragement.

photo by David Castillo Dominici

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