Weight for it

I weighed myself on Sat before training and wow I've lost some more weight.  The scale showed my weight at 236lbs.  Yea me.

I figured it would happen as my clothes are starting to fit looser.  This is the way it was last year and the year before, so I'm glad to be back on the losing train.

Now I just have to keep it up.  Which reminds me that this healthy life thing has it's good days and bad days. Also good weeks and bad weeks.

The challenge is always food.  The other night I had met some friends for dinner at a restaurant and we ate a good meal.  I left full but not over stuffed.  When hanging with friends and eating stuff, it's easy to over eat.  The notion that you need to be aware of what you're putting in your mouth is the last thing on your mind.  After all this is fun time.  But I did okay and left feeling good about the evening.  Until I got home and sat down.  Then I'm feeling hungry!  It was not more than a couple of hours before this that I ate that great meal.  So here I am feeling hungry and at the same time reminding myself that, really I just ate.  It's baffling how the mind can fool the body into thinking it needs something it really doesn't. 

I weighed 302lbs at my heaviest.  I needed to see that number on the scale before I could also see what I was doing to myself.  I realized that it was time to try and take back control.  It was time to say, "No More!".  I was still eating like I was in my 20's and even in my 20's I was eating like I was 12.  The trip to the fast food restaurant was an orgy of food.  Two different sandwiches, maybe a Big Mac and a Filet of Fish or a double cheese burger and a regular burger.  Then there were the fries and onion rings and of course the milkshakes.  Amazing!  It all adds up!

I still eat some fast food but more like once a month if that and it's not the multiple servings like before.  I know I need to be very careful about that but I still have to satisfy that craving to some extent otherwise it turns into a giant problem that can only be resolved by over doing it.

Of course it doesn't hurt to remind myself about the scale and the number 302.  Especially if it's a bad week.