Dreading the Weigh-In
Well… it’s Friday. Remember when I said I was moving weigh-in to the end of the week? Well, it’s come. I’ll be upfront here: something in the back of my head had me convinced this week would see some weight gain, so I was none to excited to hit the scale. You see, I haven’t done my walking in almost two weeks. With no shoes, concrete and textured asphalt were beginning to make ground beef out of the bottoms of my tootsies, to the point where it was nearly impossible to stand for a couple days, much less ambulate.
I figured the scale would announce another two or three pounds added to my weight – especially since I did a stealth weigh-in (unreported here, I know!) on Monday, and I was half a pound heavier than last week. Half a pound is not a whole lot, but it meant I missing my daily walks was having an affect on my health, so I was prepared for the worst. I wasn’t prepared for what I saw.
Somehow in the last four days I dropped six pounds.
That’s right… as of today, I’m at 488 pounds.
I have to admit, I don’t know how it happened. Oh, I’ve been active, getting around as I can. I’ve been drinking a sixteen ounce glass of water about every hour. I’m still sticking with my dietary changes. I did drink a soda last weekend – something I haven’t otherwise done in well over a month – but outside of that the only thing I’ve had to drink other than water is unsweetened tea. No sweets. No seconds. No snacks. For the most part, I’ve stuck with it on weekends, too. I even did non-walking workouts a couple days.
Despite all that, I can’t imagine how it would account for six pounds in four days.
But I’m not complaining! Being in shock and awe over unexpected loss won’t make me foolish enough to, as the old saw says, “look a gift horse in the mouth”.
We’ll see where it goes from here. In less than four weeks, I’ve dropped twenty pounds. I still have a long way to go, somewhere between 275 and 290 pounds, but I am more encouraged now than I have been this whole time.
Have a great day… I know I will!
(Oh… and the little logo. Do you folks watch Game Show Network? Bob Saget (formerly of America’s Funniest Home Videos and sitcom Full House) hosts a GSN show called 1 vs. 100, which is sort of a mashed up hybrid of Deal or No Deal and Jeopardy! with a little bit of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? mixed in. If you like trivia gameshows, it’s worth a watch. Anyway, yeah, I borrowed their logo (though mine is nowhere near as nice or flashy as theirs), because the idea just made sense to me. It’s me – the fat guy on top – versus my weight, trying to win the million dollar prise of making myself a better person.)
