I promised you I would keep you updated on our progress. Tonight was the big night, our first weigh-in. I'd been really nervous all day. Eating healthy and hoping the benefits of my limited exercise paid off. Melody earned a lot of astonished looks tonight when she weighed in. She lost 11.0 lbs. her first week! She was nervous because we had eaten out at the first part of the week when we went and saw Michael Bolton in concert. Boy, did she do great! They teased her about her weight loss and she wasn't even a man! As I was stepping up, the nerves started to hit. I had hit 2 if my 3 goals, would I now make it 3 for 3? To refresh those just joined me, my first 3 goals were to, 1. Join Weight Watchers 2. Join a gym and 3. To lose 10 lbs. my first week. Those first 2 were tough! Could I get the hat trick? I am very proud to say, not only did I get the hat trick, I scored a grand slam too! I officially lost 16.8 lbs! WooHoo! You can see the results of my book in the picture. I got 3 5 lb stars, plus 2 Bravo stars. 1 Bravo for the weight, and the other for joining a gym.
I also want to admit another accomplishment that happened after our meeting. Me and Melody decided after our weigh ins, if they are good news, that one of us will chose where we eat dinner. Tonight's victory dinner was my choice and I chose Libby's in Goldsby. I'd been craving their home made fries. Okay first part of victory was when I ordered the 2 price fried catfish meal. You ask your self, "how in the world can that be a victory?" Easy. Let me explain. Normally I would get the 4 piece catfish or the all you can eat, with the fries and a salad. I would fill my salad plate with everything! Salad, potato salad, pea salad, tons of thousand island dressing and then anything else I could fit on the plate. Then I would get sweet tea and drink 4 or 5 glasses. Finish off the fish with 2 to 3 cups of tarter sauce. I would eat so much, that I couldn't move and then whine all the way home about eating too much and come home sit on the couch and moan and whine some more. But tonight, it was different. I drank only a couple glasses of unsweet tea, and for my salad I got lots of lettuce, tomatoes and onion. I left off the pea salad and got maybe a 1/4 cup of potato salad. Only a little bit of thousand island dressing and a couple of pickles. When the rest of my meal came, I'll admit I ate all my fries, but only ate 1 piece of fish! Can you beleive it? A guy who normally puts away 4 - 6 pieces of fish, ate just 1! I finished dinner comfortable, not stuffed worse than a Thanksgiving Turkey. Afterwards in stead of going home, me and Melody drove across the road and went to the gym so I could work off my dinner. Third victory tonight! Tonight I really pushed my self at the gym. Instead like last night stopping after every .10 miles on the first mile I pushed it to .25 miles and just briefly rested. About the end of the first mile I started cramping in my left thigh. I moaned and whined about it, but I kept going. I didn't stop till I got to 3 miles tonight! And every mile got quicker as I went. It took me just under 15 minutes to go 3 miles. I am slowly getting there. 4th victory tonight!
Melody is going to join the gym next week, so I gave her the tour tonight. She is excited too! She sat down to watch me, but got bored and got on a treadmill. She walked 1 1/2 miles while I was working out. I think she could've gone farther, but she had her flip flops on and they were hurting between her toes. She got watching Big Brother and talking to me and just kept walking away. I'm very proud of her! Tonight, I feel so excited with everything we accomplished this week. To see all our hard work pay off in such large dividends in our weight loss is almost overwhelming.
Jared contacted me today and he has a plan all laid out for me. He wants to start Monday and increase the intensity. We laughed when I told him Intensity is my new middle name. I lost 16.8 lbs this week on a very limited exercise program. I can't wait to see what I can do when I start working out. The sky's the limit!
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