Nuff Said! 

 with any luck, by july 4 weekend I will have reached my half way point, the downhill trek of my weight loss journey. As of today, I am at 94.8 pounds lost, 105.2 to go. By 4th of july, I will have been surgically altered for exactly 90 days. 100 pounds in 90 days....yeah....giddie up! So I am averaging over a pound per day weight loss. i couldn't be happier with my progress, except perhaps I am a bit soggy and loose on my body. I do really hope some of this sag tightens up. i am not expecting beach body perfection, but it would be nice to have a body that didnt look 68 when I took my shirt off.

i have begun to notice that if I wear "man spanks" or other compression garments, My true weight loss can be seen. I wore a compression vest the other day. Slim jimmed by body into a 2x dress shirt and 48 waist pants. Went to work with my goatee shaved off and no glasses......took a few people a few seconds before they recognized me.

I cant wait to see what I look like on December 3, my "goal" date to be at 225. Its doable.

My work out schedule.

Su, tu, th, sat- 1 hr swim
Mo, wed, fri- 1 hr swim, 1 hr weight lifting with personal trainer

current food intake, roughly around 1000 calories. (occasionally up to 1200)

thus far without major exersize I have lost around 65 pounds. Today, 1 hour from now, i leave to see my surgeon, hopefully to get the clearance for swimming! swimming before surgery was my major weight loss method. Walking was okay. working out was okay, but nothing shed the pounds off me like swimming about an hour a day 3-5 times a week. At my best, i was swiming around 6 times a week, two of those days for 2 hours (morning and evening) and the rest before noon. I was unemployed at the time and drawing a good life off severance for 7 years servive. 

in that stretch, I reached my lowest non college weight. 270. I have pics of me at 270 and people say I looked 200#. Mainly because of a large frame, heavy bones, and very strong, balanced muscles from swimming.

I have to work right after my doctors visit, and tmorrow I have my PMD and dietician visits. Inbetween, I plan on getting my toes wet!

okay, so I was motoring along like a bat outta hell....then, nothing! i stopped losing weight.  From thursday last week til today I didnt lose a single ounce. I looked around and realized that maybe I wasn't eating enough. Thats right. Not putting enough calories in my body. It went into starvation conservation mode. So I upped my calorie intake a bit. This morning....im down almost 2 pounds again.

lesson learned. make sure you get your 800 calories a day, minimum otherwise the fire will put itself out! 

today weigh in, total 366.8. the morning of surgery I stepped on the same scale at 403.  Thats 36.2 pounds in 21 days. average 1.6 pounds per day. however as of late im averaging about .9 pounds per day.