Week 27

Feb 01, 2011

Weight: 263
2/1/11

Today I am just 3 pounds shy of losing 100 pounds since my surgery date.  It would have been cool to have lost it by 6 months but close enough.  Here is a break down of my weight and pounds lost over the past 6 months:

Month 0 - 360 (surgery weight)
Month 1 - 338 (-22)
Month 2 - 317 (-21)
Month 3 - 305 (-12)
Month 4 - 294 (-11)
Month 5 - 283 (-11)
Month 6 - 266 (-17)

This past month my weight loss has picked up and I am thrilled.  I think there are two reasons for this.  One is that I got a bodybugg and have been tracking my calories burned and it has motivated me every day this past month to burn even more daily.

So when I upload my data and see if I have met my calorie goal for the day, if I haven't I am motivated to do something like cleaning or play my PS3 Move or go out shopping so I can meet my goal for the day.  I try to burn 3000 calories per day and sometimes by 8pm I can see I have burned 2800, so then I do something active so I can burn another 200 for example.

The other extremely helpful thing has been following Elina's suggestions about drinking tea between meals and preparing super low carb/calorie meals that fill me up without a lot of damage.  This has helped me lower my calorie count significantly, and I feel so much better about my chances now.

I thought I would be one of those people who could only eat a few bites and be done, and I saw other people eating full fat stuff and saying their calories were still low.  I didn't think the volume I was eating was any more than them.

It took me a while to get adjusted to tracking my calories after a hiatus and when I finally got  back on track I was rather upset to see that I had been eating so many calories when I wasn't paying attention.

It reminds me again that daily weighing and tracking both my calories burned and consumed will be an important part of my plan and will keep me out of denial.  I still have many things I struggle with and I'm still doing lots of work on my behaviors but at least I feel I have made some important progress.

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