I weighed myself this weekend, and I'm 199 Pounds! I had gained a few from my old low of 200 and finally beat it back and am now continuing with my weight loss ( Read more... )

One of the HUGE problems I'd always had was watching my hunger spike through the roof every time I began an exercise program.

So much so that like Pavlov's dog, I felt like I was being punished for exercising by losing my willpower to resist eating every time I tried to to the "right thing" by exercising.

"Sedentary Hungry Me" was far more easy to ( Read more... )

The protein thing is definitely a step in the right direction.
I recently posted about increasing my protein intake per meal.

• When I initially reviewed my protein intake it was between 9 and 20+ grams of protein per meal.
• So I increased the minimum to 15 grams. It helped my hunger go down a lot but I was still having the occasional heavy cravings.
• ( Read more... )

I am really beginning to understand  how systemic my weight/inflammation issues are now that I have been watching what I eat and putting a little more structure into planning my meals. It is amazing how different my body feels when I am eating healthy vs not.

I woke up today and it was a good morning. One of several as I had been closely monitoring ( Read more... )

Well over the holidays I slid, and started to sneak in Fast Food lunches and soft drinks.  I  am pleased to report that since the new year I have stayed away from fast food and am not bringing my meals to work and drinking my hot tea with sweet & low, and have switched to a lower sugar/higher protein variety of nature valley bars. I pretty much ( Read more... )

I occasionally post about my struggles with my weight... I truly believe that when they were handing out the self-discipline gene on portion control I was off somewhere else looking at something shiny ( Read more... )

Well, I had to work late, and we ended up going to China Moon buffet for dinner ( Read more... )

Well, my arm is healing up nicely. The cut on my arm has closed up without infection, but I'm keeping a cloth band-aid squishing it together so it does not open back up till it's completely healed. I don't want to risk an infection.

The stuff my boss used on me as an antiseptic  was called Mercurochrome. It looked like a really old bottle, so I ( Read more... )

I was talking with a subcontractor at work who complained that since his workplace insurance went tobacco free, that he has gained 50 pounds in 9 months. (He was on the large & flabby side - his job is testing related and they guys in that field are all huge) and he was still gaining (although i'm not sure how fast.

I did some quick calculations and ( Read more... )