In the saga that is my weight lost plan I have reached the initial goal - 180 lbs (correction 8/17/07), that's losing 25 lbs in 5 months, say about a pound a week. Not too taxing looking back on it. The last 2 months the rate of weight lost slowed quite a bit to maybe 5 to 7 lbs total. Though I'm not starving myself I'm still losing. Just goes to show how much unnecessary eating, poor choice of foods and sedentary life style I've been participating in. Regardless, I haven't done all my research yet on nutrition and exercise though I am moving closer to that. Carol and talk about it a lot and I get into conversations with a lot of other people about it. You really find out that there are many folks who are working on similar goals. Jim, a friend from work gave me some information that his wife (a Ph.D) wanted to pass along to me. He had mentioned to her that I had said (7 or 8 lbs ago) I thought I may have reached a plateau and might need to reassess what I needed to do reach my goal. She said that if I could find a way to reduce the calories I consume each day by 100 I would lose about a pound a month. 1 pound equals about 3,500 calories. Interesting facts but it remains that I'm still losing weight. As of today I weigh 178.8 lbs.
Friday I had blood work to check my cholesterol, on a checkup 6 weeks ago I asked the doctor since having lost significant weight and improved my activity level I could try getting off the cholesterol medication I was prescribed to last year after having recorded my first high reading After some discussion he agreed, so tomorrow I have an appointment to discuss the results from Friday's blood work. Just another step. A little while ago I bought a new pair of jeans - 34s, relaxed fit, it's not like I have 6-pack abs. I had some 34 jeans from the last time I lost weight about 7 or 8 years ago. Straight cut type, they were squishing the life out of me when I wore them, I deserve the relaxed fit - heck, I'm 52!
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