Updates

Hello there!
VERY naughty of me to start out this blog and then promptly abandon it doncha think?!
So here I am back again.
Still working out, still losing weight, still very connected to my "Loser" family.
Since it is hard to blog backwards... I'm just going to do a quick catch up and then move on from here okay?

So... it seems like I am closing in on 45 pounds lost (as of March of '08)!
Can you believe it?
At this time last year I was 45 pounds heavier. That's heavier then Ethan for goodness sake!
Wow, just wow.
It seems pretty surreal when I put it down in words you know.
I have a horrible tendency to concentrate on how far I still have to go, to concentrate on my failings instead of my successes, to spend too much time looking backward and berating myself for my errors. WAY bad habits. Every one of them. Anyone else do that nonsense? If so, it's time to commit to STOP. This is going to be a common theme here at the diary - so prepare yourself for some motivational "stuff" coming soon.

I've been asked lately how I am doing it.
Well - there's the obvious one... eat less, move more.
That does in many ways sum it all up you know.
Still, along the way I have improved on some other habits. The biggest part of my success is working out. By far. Just. Do. It. Move! Make yourself. Every day.

Some other things working for me:
I drink 64oz + of water. I put it in this old apple juice bottle to measure that I meet the minimum. According to some of the trainers at SWAT based on my weight I should drink 100oz a day. I don't always make it to 100.... but most days am well over 64oz.

Ever since March (and before Loser began - or was even a dream) I have made every attempt to give up these two things. So much so that when I eat anything even mildly salty I go into major YICK mode. Now, I am not perfect by any stretch. I don't go totally mental and even switch my toothpaste or anything. BUT I try to be very mindful of both salt and sugar. Salt will keep you retaining water, not the best thing for weight loss. Finally I am a big fan of the protein drink. I don't use it as a meal substitute, but as an addition to my diet. Here I am modelling the lovely "chocolate mint" version. You can buy protein powder in any store. Walmart and Sams have good prices on it. You can add the powder to anything to boost the nutrition and the calorie burn needed to digest it. More on that later, but I recommend it. Just watch out for the calories, you do need to "count" them even if you are drinking them.So, that's it for today.

Any of this stuff helpful to you? Motivating perhaps? I hope so. I'd hate to bore you all. Oh, and if you follow my other blog too and the loss of my camera you will see in the above pic that it is finally replaced. Whoo hoooo!!!

Happy almost Friday.
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