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Yes! This has been one heck of a week with many struggles, but many positive experiences as well.

Food: I only had one drink that was not on the core plan (a couple of glasses of wine last night). I managed to cut back on sweets and increasing fruit and vegetable intake. I took my lunch three days out of the five. I did not have any food at the movies Saturday night (Fool’s Gold was a fun movie).

Exercise: I did one more day of walking 2.2 miles during lunch on Wednesday. Yesterday and today, I finally got to exercise with my workout buddy, Jason. Both days involved 20 minutes on the elliptical (aka the torture rack for my quadriceps), 20 situps, 15 leg lefts, and then 30 minutes on free weights, machines and bench press (Monday and Wednesday on one group of muscles, a different group on Tuesday and Thursday). My legs and arms were Jello yesterday. Today, they were just plain sore.

I mentioned in my last weigh-in that I would post my menu. I’ll list it below after the “more” link.

Although one weigh-in months ago took me to the 40 pounds lost mark, I consider it a fluke as it dropped back down almost 9 pounds the following week. So, in my books, today’s weight loss of 36 pounds is my personal lowest.

Starting weight: 319.0 lb
Previous weight: 285.2 lb
Current weight: 283.0 lb
Current loss/gain: -2.2 lb
Total loss/gain: -36.0 lb
Distance to 50: 14.0 lb
Distance to WW Goal: 33.0 lb

Cross-posted to WebCudgel.com

Wednesday

• Breakfast (8am): 1/2 cup oatmeal with 1tsp sugar and 1 creamer (1pt), fat-free blueberry muffin (1pt).
• Exercise (11:30am): 38 min 2.2 mile walk.
• Lunch (12:15pm): Turkey and FF Cheese sandwich w/ spicy brown mustard (2pts for bread), potatoes/carrots leftover from pot roast, apple, banana.
• Afternoon Snack (3:15pm): snack pack of Fig Newton bars (4pts)
• Dinner (5:45pm): Chipotle burrito (tortilla, rice, onions, bell peppers, chicken, corn salsa, hot salsa, 1/2 sour cream, 1/2 cheese, lettuce) (probably more points than I want to count right now)

Thursday

• Breakfast (7:20am): Chick-Fil-A Bagel sandwich (14 pts, ouch), hash browns (6pts), unsweet iced tea.
• Lunch (12:30pm): Sushi (two pieces of sushi with rice; a special dish with red snapper wrapped around asparagus and topped with jalapeno relish) (2pts for the rice).
• Afternoon snack (grazing): an apple and snack mix made by co-worker… probably about 10pts worth… I definitely lost control here.
• Dinner (7:30pm): Whole Wheat pasta with Fire-roasted tomato pasta sauce, lean ground beef, onions and broccoli, a basic salad, garlic toast (with a little butter, so about 4 pts), unsweet tea, and light ice cream with a very small brownie (5 pts).
• At this point, I have already used all of my “weekly allowance points” under the core program (and then some). Basically, from this point forward, I should limit myself to ONLY core foods. I have a feeling that won’t happen as the weekend is still ahead of me.

Friday

• Breakfast (8:00am): 1/2 cup oatmeal with 1tsp sugar and 1 creamer (1pt), apple
• Lunch (12:30pm): Chicken Biryani (kinda like Indian version of fried rice without the fried part), Bhel Puri (a vegetarian light potato/onion/puffed rice salad), 1/2 naan (flat bread, the real splurge in the meal). (Should’ve ate only half… now I feel overfull)
• Afternoon snack (3:10pm): 2pt brownie (seriously… just a taste of chocolate… I was still too full most of the afternoon)
• Dinner (7:00pm): Leftover pasta from last night, salad, three thin flatbreads (6pt), unsweet tea.
• Personal Success: avoided having dessert after dinner because I just didn’t want to have to write it down

Saturday
(We usually only have two meals on Saturday due to church)

• Breakfast (10:30am): 1 waffle (w/ 3 Tbsp Peanut butter and about 1/4 cup syrup), 2 turkey sausage patties, scrambled eggs with cheese, onions, 24 oz FF milk.
• Lunch (4:00pm): 1 cup Beef/Barley/Lentil soup, 1/2 cup vegetable soup, 1 small slice of cheese pizza, 1 serving corn bread, 2 meatballs, 1/4 cup guacamole, 12 tortilla chips, 1 chicken drumstick (roasted), unsweet tea, 1 small slice of cake, 1/2 cup banana pudding, 1/2 cup orange gelatin (this was a church potluck so there was a lot of variety).
• Late Evening Snack (9:45pm) @ Barnes & Noble Cafe: 24oz Iced Passion Tea (unsweet), 1/2 Reese’s Peanut Butter cookie.
• Personal Success: went to the movies and didn’t have a thing to eat or drink.

Sunday

• Breakfast (9:50am): 1 waffle (1 Tbsp butter, light syrup), 1 cup of sweetened cereal with 1 cup of FF milk
• Lunch (3:15pm): 1/4 chicken quesadilla, some chicken nachos, 1/2 chicken sandwich with steamed broccoli
• Evening snacks: banana, apple, 2pt marshmallow treat
• Personal Success: Took apple and banana to guy’s game night so I wouldn’t snack on anything else.

Monday

• Breakfast (6:30am): 2/3 cup oatmeal (w/ brown sugar and butter and FF milk), banana
• Morning snack (10:40am): 2pt 100cal brownie, banana (basically a pre-workout boost)
• Exercise (11:30am): 20 min Elliptical, 20 situps, 5 leg lifts, 5 reps 85lb bench press, 15 reps 50lb tricep curls, 10 reps 25lb bench press, 4 reps butterfly curls (20lb each).
• Lunch (12:50pm): Turkey and lentil casserole, FF strawberry yogurt.
• Afternoon snack: 6 cinnamon-glazed almonds, Sweet&Salty Nut granola bar (almond – 4pts).
• Dinner (5:30pm): 2 glasses Pinot Noir, unsweet tea, Peppercorn-seared Ahi Tuna, 1/4 cup spinach and artichoke dip with 6 chips, Caesar Caliente salad, Chilean Sea Bass w/ basmati rice.
• Personal Success: I took a bag of Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Kisses for my office desk and had none. I also did not order any of 5 luscious desserts though I did not have to pay.  I had paid attention to my stomach and it said it was full.

Tuesday

• Breakfast (8:00am): 1/2 cup cream of wheat w/ 2 creamers, small hot chocolate.
• Exercise (11:30am): 20 min Elliptical, 15 leg lifts, 15 situps, 2 sets of 10 reps military press (50lb), 2 sets of 10 reps curls (25lb), 2 sets of 10 reps arm lifts (25lb) and 3 sets of 10 reps shrugs( 2 sets with 40lb each hand, 1 set with 50lb each hand).
• Lunch (12:45pm): 2 cups of Mexican rice w/ black beans and corn, 10 carrot sticks, FF blueberry yogurt, banana.
• Afternoon snack (2:45pm): large apple
• Dinner (6:30pm): Taco Bell (2 chicken soft tacos, beans w/ cheese, rice, chips and salsa) split a caramel apple empanada with my wife.
• Personal Success: once again avoided the Hershey’s Kisses as well as the Girl Scout cookies offered to me. Didn’t hit the snack machine for anything. Reached a new personal low weight.

There were several times this week where I told myself “no” because I didn’t want to have to write it down.  Just taking the step to make myself accountable to all of you made a difference in many of my choices (and almost all of the ones I denied myself were sweets I didn’t need).