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My top weight was 300 in July of 2004. Seven months later, down about 20 pounds, I saw a picture of a woman about age 57 wearing a red dress for *Wear Red Month* in a magazine. She looked so great! She looked like I wanted to look. I saved it a long time but [...]

Okay, I’m claiming a 1.2 pound loss this week because I saw it on the scale once. =) That is 1.2 for the week and 66 grand total pounds lost. See my new 65 pound badge on the left.
My appetite seems to have decreased and I am trying to eat more often. I had gotten [...]

Thanks to my back-from-Iraq son, I’ve done CrossFit two days this week and plan to again tomorrow. Currently I am *pleasantly* sore in arms and upper legs, a good place to be.
It is amazing how much of the ground I gained in the few months I did CrossFit is still hanging tough. I can still [...]

WooHoo! I do post a loss this week, 3.2 pounds! Part of this must be what I *should* have shown last week.
The week was not perfect, I ate wheat three times and peanut butter pie three times and some other snackie type things, but generally (believe it or not) got back on the kinds of [...]

My dad was a pilot. He taught all of us children to navigate as he drove the car. By the time we were driving we could find about anything, with and without a map.
Just this week I’m finding myself in shock over the progress and also re-thinking where I’m headed. It feels like I’ve stopped [...]

Just realized. Six months, 44 pounds. Why, that is 7.3 pounds lost per month, almost 1.7 pounds per week. And of course with the previous 17.8, a grand total loss of 61.8 (but not in six months).
WOW!
It is just starting to sink in. I would have never set my goal that high. I mean, I [...]

Hi, I’m celebrating getting to one-half year (roughly) in spite of a 0.0 weight change this week. That’s right, no loss, first time since mid-November, before I came to Colorado.
Reason: snackie, snackie, snackie. I lost track of how many times this week I opted for things that were obviously not good in the diet direction: [...]

This doesn’t mean I skipped a week, but somewhere back there I got off track on my weekly numbers. This really is the end of week 25, since the day I started back dieting and began this blog: August 10, 2008. This means next Sunday will be 1/2 year!!
Today — drumroll — down two pounds. [...]