Week 4 - 186.4

I forgot to update my blog with my latest weight. Surprisingly, I still lost a little over the previous week even though I had the most delicious xmas brunch. I even had an awesome Saturday night dessert before my Sunday weigh-in.

This week, I've supplemented controlled eating with Wii Fit games. I know... it's not a "real" workout. But, it's better than sitting on my ass not doing a damn thing.

Next week should be interesting since there are still more holiday meals this week. At least my breakfasts and lunches have been good thus far.

Co-ink-ee-dink

My first day of work yesterday was good. It wasn't anything spectacular. Nobody was lined up outside my cubicle wanting to meet me. I kept my head down, just getting myself situated and reading a training manual. I didn't have the correct access to our accounting system so there wasn't much to learn. Hope that changes today.

After lunch, this one coworker, Lisa, started talking to me out of nowhere. She's a senior accountant I interviewed with. She said, "I had lunch with your fiancée today!"

What?

"Yeah, lunch with G."

HUH?

I said, "Wait? You went to PF Chang?"

Lisa says, "Yup!"

"You went for Debbie's birthday?"

"Yeah, that's my sister!"

Now, she's African American so I was close to thinking she was just using slang. I mean, she "coulda" been saying that Debbie was her sistah-vs-sister. But I took that It's-Always-Sunny-In-Philadelphia scenario out of mind knowing clear well she was talking sister as in family.

Isn't that just crazy, yo?

Week 3 - 188.0

I think this is where the losing weight is going to slow down. I just had a big Christmas dinner with G & my family tonight. And, this Friday, we'll be having a Christmas feast with G's family. I'mm funna try to be good the rest of the week but, folks, don't count on me reporting in next Sunday with any loss in weight.

I'm really excited about tomorrow. My first day at Razorfish begins. Seriously, I haven't had a "first" day of work in over 14 years. And I was just remembering how nervous and goofy I was during the first few months of my only other two full-time jobs. This is gonna be interesting.

Hopefully, I'll have time to blog about more than just my weight in the future. I'm reading my blog and I'm just fed up with... me. BOR---ing.

Week 2 - 190.8

Today's weigh-in: 190.8!

I lost three pounds this past week. I'm really glad that I decided to start this new diet BEFORE the new year. It's helping in situations where I'd normally just eat as much food as I can. Isn't that sad? Treating every meal like an all-you-can-eat buffet? Enough of that.

A couple of things I learned this week -- no alcohol. Not that i drink much. But I went to a comedy show earlier this week and drank a couple of high-calorie mixed drinks. As tasty as those were, I'm going to have to refrain from those.

Also, on that very same night, I ate more than just one serving for my dinner. Actually, I ate a lot. Stupid, stupid, stupid. It was Thai food. Couldn't help myself. But it's all good. I'm not gonna feel guilty -- but I am gonna try to recognize areas that I could improve upon.

Week 1 - 193.8

There it is. I lost almost five pounds this past week! I went down from 198.6 to 193.8. Well, that's probably not completely accurate. When I weighed myself a week ago, it was night time. Today's weigh-in was in the morning. And I seem to fluctuate a lot throughout the day. I'm usually lightest in the morning. Next week's weighing will be more reflective of how well I'm really doing.

Sadly, today was a very very bad day of eating. But, heck, let's recap the goodness, shall we? For lunch, I had salt & pepper pork with beef chow fun noodles. Yummy? Yes! And for dinner? A huge ass piece of pepperoni & mushroom pizza. I mean the BIGGEST slice of pizza you'd ever see... one slice of pizza from a 28" pie. And a piece of delicious ice cream birthday cake and a couple of pints of beer. Soooo good. Eating these foods was unavoidable -- that just means I'll have to be good the rest of the week. Which I shall be.

Does it seem odd that I'm just putting my weight out here for people to see? Yeah... kinda. But I think it's just another way for me to be held accountable for this little project of mine.

Time to sleep!

Week 0 - 198.6 (Countin Calories)

I'm doing it. I'm counting calories. I'm on Day 3 and quite enjoying the new discipline. I know it's for real this time 'cause I'm using an online food log to help me out. I'm eating about 1500 per day. I'm a little hungry here and there but I don't care for now. I'm just super happy that I'm eating healthier. I'll try to write about it every week in order to prove that this is really truly doable. I weighed in at 198.6 lbs on Sunday.

Let's see what all this hard work gets me in a week's time.

And, oh yeah, I'm halfway through Eclipse now. This book's much more interesting for me. Whereas before I was just reading to read the books, I'm actually curious what's going to happen to the characters... Bella? Edward? Jacob? How's it all going to end? Who woulda thought I'd actually care?