August 8, 2010:
I decide that enough is enough. I weigh in at 350 pounds. This is not the heaviest I have been (weighed in once at the DR office at 362) but it is heavy enough. I told TJ (Wife) that I wanted to change the way I eat. I realize that I need to change everything about my eating habits. I eat wrong. I eat at the wrong times. I eat the wrong things. I eat the wrong amounts. I eat for the wrong reasons. That changes August 9th, the first full day of my new life.
I plan to lose 130 pounds in 12 months.
August 15, 2010:
After one week on the modified eating plan, I have lost 12 pounds and decide it is time to up the ante. I need to increase my activity. I decide it is time to start walking. Up to this point I have walked for a while with a cane and then only when I deemed walking to be entirely necessary. You know, there is usually someone that will get that for you, or go into the store for you, or do the errand for you. While being helpful, my wife and kids enabled my excuses. I put excuses behind and take a walk around the block. It is one/third of a mile. It took me 20 minutes and I came home breathing hard and sweating.
August, September, October, and November:
The distance I walked on my daily walk increases. I usually do 2 miles but have had days of nearly 4 miles. November 11, I pass the 100 miles walked for exercise mark.
My daily calorie intake has dropped over 70%, from over 3500 to around 1050 calories.
Today:
It has been 113 days since I changed my life, literally.
My waist has gone from 58 inches to 47.5 inches.
My hips have gone from 60 inches to 48.5 inches.
My BMI has gone from 53.2 to 43.3.
One hundred thirteen days and my weight has dropped from 350 pounds to 285 pounds. I have lost 65 pounds. That is half of the 130 pounds I plan to lose.
Sixteen weeks and one day and I have lost 22 inches from my waist and hips. Even my wedding ring is nearly too large for my fingers. My face is smaller. My feet are smaller. I can bend over and touch the floor again.
This is the new me.
Today, I am half way to the me I will be again!
2 comments:
Happy 113 and happy half way mark! You have done a fantastic job! Keep up the awesome work!!!
I don't think there are words to tell you how proud I am of what you have done. Not only for the weight loss but for the decision to change and the follow through of that decision. Losing the weight and changing your activities mean that I get to keep you longer and that is a wonderful thing. I know the battle I have and am living it every day as you know and I know you will reach your goal and be healthier and happier for it.. I love you so very much..
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