Holy Crap!

At the beginning of the month I stated that I am going to lose 20 pounds this month…come hell or high water…or something…

So how am I doing?

My weight on December 1st:  276.4lbs

My weight today (December 15th): 268.0lbs

I’ve lost 8.4lbs so far this month.  Nice, respectable number I think.  I would have loved to have at least 10 pounds by now, and I would have REALLY loved to have lost 12-15lbs, but I am on the right track.  I have a lot of other stuff going on, and I’m not starving myself, or spending 23 hours a day in the gym (there were a lot of days that only had a 30 minute elliptical workout).

I have the rest of the month, and I’m still confidant.  Sure Christmas is coming up (which I’m not ready for. At. All.) but I got this

WooT!

I had said I wanted to take some time off because I was under a lot of stress, had a lot on my plate, and needed one less thing to worry about.  It seemed like a good idea at the time, but…

• Blogging doesn’t really take up that much time.  I’m not exactly writing the Great American Novel here…I’m usually able to put together a post in a short amount of time, so taking time away from it really didn’t do me a lot of good.  I may not post daily, or even every other day, but I need an outlet, so I’d like to keep it on the table.
• I’m still trying to lose weight.  I never intended this break to be a break from weight loss.  I’m still exercising, I’m still dieting (or trying to).  In fact, part of me was hoping I could return in January and surprise you all with a huge weight loss.  While I think that could have been cool, the logic behind it is kind of stupid.  This was never a boasting ground for me, this was a support pillar, and a huge one at that.  To go on this on my own without utilizing the support would be like trying to build a skyscraper on a mud foundation…it won’t work.
• I missed you guys.  I miss blogging, and I miss reading your blogs.  When I stopped blogging I basically stopped everything blog related, so I’d like to try to get back into the thick of things.

Like I said, I can’t promise daily posts or anything, but I won’t go too long without an update.

In other news…

Progress Report: November 16th, 2010
Weight: 274.2lbs
Body Fat Percentage:  36.4%
BMI: 39.9

Tuesdays are weigh in days, so there ya go.

How have you all been holding up?

Yeah…so…

After I last weigh in I told ya’ll that’d I’d be down in the 250s…

HA! Because that worked out so well…

Now…I don’t want to be one of those people that gains weight (usually after eating a box of twinkies) and claims that it’s muscle gain…but I do think some muscle has been gained.  My moobs aren’t as squishy, my triceps are becoming a bit more prominent (for some reason I am unable to attain decent biceps), and when I do run (which doesn’t happen as often as I’d like it to) my gut isn’t flopping around in front of me as bad as it used to.

So yeah, I may be gaining muscle…but all that frickin’ fat is still there too.

I’m a broken record, but I know it’s the diet.  Whereas before it was laziness, now its been laziness/false sense of priveledge.  I haven’t felt the need to watch things as closely since I’ve been at the gym almost daily.  I really do know better than that, but does that matter? Apparently not.

So yeah…diet.  I will work on it, and by next weigh in (10/26/10…I like the biweekly thing) I will be in the 250s…even if I have to cut off an arm (I kid…I kid…)

Hope ya’ll are having better luck than me!

 In other news…

I want to take a moment and direct ya’ll over to Eating Journey, where Mische is celebrating the One Year Anniversary of her Exposed Post.  I did my own Exposed post in April and it was kind of petrifying, but I am glad I took part in it.  It taught me to take pride in my body (for better or worse) and to recongnize the good it’s done for me.  I’ve trying to get back to caring about it, and hopefully when (and I will) revisit my own Exposed post, I’ll have something better to show you

Have a great day, everyone!

I said the other day that I was probably going to have a gain, and I was right.  Workouts aside, food wasn’t really on par, and in the end that is what once again screwed me up.  I had a few nights out with friends, a night at my moms (which is always trouble foodwise) and a Microbrewery Festival over the weekend.  I wasn’t really watching what I was doing, and it shows.

By my next weigh in on 11/12/10, I want to be at least 259lbs, and at that point I will be done with the 260s FOREVER…

…for real this time.

It’s not much, but I’ll take it.

Need to get some work done, so this is going to be a brief post.  Basically I wanted to check in and say that I’m alive, and that I’m still around

I need to workout more this week.  I worked 25.5 hours of overtime last week, and I got some schoolwork done, but exercising kind of fell to the wayside.  I need to work on that, otherwise I’m going to start inflating again. :/

Diet was meh, again.  No calorie counting this past week, but I did try to keep the portions in check, to an extent.

More later.

Oh, and Biggest Loser tonight! WooT!

Have a great week!