Weigh Day

I'm so psyched. Another 3 lbs gone! I know I won't continue to lose at this rate but it sure is a nice start.

What a week

What a week it's been. From 1st shift to a mid shift to a 2nd shift back to a 1st shift and it's almost Friday . . . weigh day. Today we had a pot luck lunch for Lois' retirement. Plenty of stuff that I could eat and once again, I didn't touch the cakes, brownies, etc. I filled up on vegetables and red beet eggs. I did exercise again tonight, can't wait until the nice weather comes then Sadie and I will get our hour glass figures back. Hope I have good news from the scale tomorrow. C-ya

Check out this cool graphic

I saw this on someone's blog today and just had to laugh. Thought I'd share.


Today was a good day although I don't think I ate enough. Had a great salad for supper and I'm still satisfied. That doesn't happen often. Back to some sort of daywork tomorrow, don't know what I'll pack for lunch, not much in the house. Might have to do a Wendy's salad run. Then groceries tomorrow night. I did exercise today, even got winded : ) Not doing as much as I should in that department but hey, it's better than what I was doing.

That's all for now, gotta get to bed.

Tell me why . . . I don't like Mondays

There are days when you want to just shoot the whole day down. Today happens to be one of them for me. I won't bore you with the details, just suffice it to say that typically I would have wanted to down a bag of jelly beans or something as insidious as that, but I didn't. Someone brought doughnuts to work and they sat right in front of me and I didn't touch them. While it might make me feel good right now, I would regret it tomorrow, it just isn't worth it.

Hopefully you have all had a better day than I. I will talk to you soon.

Celebrating at Iron Hill

Yesterday we went to Iron Hill Brewery for their Mug Club Membership Renewal Party. Mike is a Mug Club member. We picked up Mike's best friend Sonny and took him along to celebrate his birthday which was last Thursday. We were back in the area where they brew the beer, drinking some of their latest brews and talking to other Mug Club members. We then went out and got a table and ordered something to eat. I had one beer, a Pig Iron Porter, and then drank water for the rest of the night. I had the Chicken Teriyaki Salad which was delicious. Later in the evening my sister Barb and her "fiance" Gary stopped by to announce their engagement. So we toasted to Sonny's birthday and to Barb and Gary's engagement. A great night and so easy to stay on track.

Thanks to all of you who commented here or on Facebook. I appreciate your support and your enthusiasm!

Eggs, red pepper, mushrooms and feta cheese

What a great breakfast this was. Filling and delicious. I can't eat eggs every day, I'm more of a cereal person. I've been eating steel cut oats for my breakfast. The nurse at my diabetic nutrition class recommended them and they are great. I make them ahead of time because they take longer to cook and add some splenda, cinnamon and a little milk. Great breakfast, satisfies the sweet tooth and sticks to the ribs. Never knew what sticks to the ribs meant other than it stays with you for a while. Anyway, it's Saturday, I have a busy day and I'm feeling great about my weight loss. I bought a nice pair of navy blue dress pants yesterday. I cannot get them zippered. I bought them smaller on purpose as a goal to work towards. Hopefully in two weeks I will be able to wear them. I need to exercise more and today looks like a great day to do that. According to the vet, Sadie could stand to lose about 5 lbs so I'll exercise the both of us.

Thanks to all for your support and I'm happy that this is inspiring some of you. I'm trying to figure out how to make it more of a forum than just about me but until I do that, please leave your comments and let all of my followers know how you're doing.

What am I doing . . . I can't eat that

Today before leaving work, I saw Josh in the hall and we stopped to talk briefly. He had a bag of Twizzlers licorice in his hand. Without thinking, I reached over and pulled one out and took a bite while carrying on a conversation. Suddenly I realized what I was doing and the title to this posting was my reaction. With that revelation, I shoved the rest of the piece of licorice in his hand and just laughed.

I have become so accustomed to just putting food in my mouth without thinking about calories or fat or sugar. It may take a while to get out of that habit. I'm still doing good on day 4. Remainder of the birthday party food was put out and I stuck to my healthy eating. Friday morning I'll weigh in and give you my first weight loss report (hopefully). Wish me luck.

Happy Birthday Jeane!

Well, we had a great food celebration for Jeane's 39th :) I did really well. I had vegetable soup that Jeane made. Everything from her garden. It was delicious and very satisfying. I also had some cheese and pickles and olives stuffed with jalepenos and Diet Coke. I stayed away from the end of the table with the white chocolate macadamia nut cookies (Cindy's specialty and my weakness). I did great and it wasn't hard. Helped that I was busy most of the day.

I was talking to my son tonight and he said that I always do good at first on a diet but then I get off track and can't get back on. I told him that this isn't a diet. I am making better food choices, cutting down on my carbs and exercising. It has to be something I am comfortable doing for life.

I'll have my first week weight loss chart up next week. Still trying to find some interesting things to put up here.

I appreciate everyone's support and look forward to reading your comments. CandiO has volunteered to be my sponsor at work. Great idea, I could use one. Judy my sister has given me some excellent advice. Even if she has gained a little of her weight back, she still looks awesome. Those of you that are traveling the same journey as I am, please post your comments regularly and let us know how you're doing. We can all inspire each other.

These are the times that try men's souls.

Truer words could not have described my day at work today. Busy I can handle, today was ludicrous. So, how did this affect my new way of eating? At one point I had to take some work into another area and almost forgot myself and grabbed candy out of their dish. It was totally unconscious. Then I remembered and walked away empty handed. Made me feel pretty good to walk away from that little piece of candy.

Tomorrow is a birthday celebration at work. This will be a true test. For all of you that work with me, keep me honest : )

There was a time when . . .

I would look at a picture of myself and every once in a while I would say, "Oh, what an awful picture". The once in a while's became more frequent and I have now come to accept the fact that it isn't the photographer, or the pose, or the lighting. It's just me! Don't think for a moment that my concern for my weight is purely aesthetic, although I think that is what brought me to this point. No, my real concern is my health and my knees and my desire to be walking on my own when I am 70 and not be reliant on a wheelchair.

I'm happy to report that I've posted pictures for your viewing pleasure : ) How can I be so happy about posting such awful pictures? Mike said it is because I am doing something about my health. I think he's right.

Can you believe that Josh asked me to go to Auntie Anne's for him because he didn't pack a lunch for work. For God's sake Josh, this is day one! You can't ask me to go to Auntie Anne's on day one!

I had a good day. Ate healthy, feel satisfied, even worked in a little exercise after an 11 hour day. I'm not dieting. Diets don't work for me. I need to change my eating habits, it needs to be something I can do for the rest of my life.

That's it for now, thanks for checking in with me.

Day 1

Well, it's Monday, February, 16th. The day I vowed to start my weight loss program. I'll admit I should have started before this but I wanted to enjoy Valentines day, which was wonderful. Mike and I went to FINS in Rehoboth Beach for dinner with our friends Keith (Captain) and Gail. FINS makes the best Bloody Mary's I've ever had. They infuse their vodka with vegetables. Peppers of all kinds, asparagus, celery, carrots, cauliflower, if it's a vegetable, it's in there. Our dinner was great as usual. We had raw oysters, oyster stew, scallop salad, seared scallops with spinach ravioli and fried oysters. We were so full, you could have rolled us out of there. Captain was a little tipsy and commented "If I wasn't so blowed up, I'd eat some more". Classic Captain!

So, enough about food. I'm starting off the week just trying to get into the habit of eating better. Only complex carbs, no simple sugars like jelly beans or chocolate! I'll have raisin bran for breakfast, a nice salad for lunch and I don't know what supper will be but it will be good. My doctor said I should eat 4 small meals a day since my sugar is a little on the high side. I think I can do that. The key is "small meals".

Alex, my son, wants to be my personal trainer. He said if I listen to him, he'll whip me into shape in no time (not so sure that is a good thing). I'll probably just walk this week, get my dog Sadie in shape as well and then think seriously about what my personal trainer said.

This blog is still pretty boring. I plan on putting a really horrible picture of me on here as my before picture and then post pictures as I start to lose. I'll also post a graph to chart my weight loss. I can't bring myself to reveal my weight just yet. Maybe as I start to lose, I'll have the nerve to tell you where I started.

If you have any ideas or want to see anything up here, let me know. Oh yeah, I'll post a picture of my personal trainer too . . . he's pretty good looking : )