lose 25 pounds

I really want to get serious with this again. Today I weighed myself again, am 15 pounds down from last year’s starting weight.

My plan is to make some real eating changes. I am quite concerned if I am prescribed any long-term cancer medications that they are going to make me gain weight again. I am very determined to not let this happen. In fact, I still want to lose 25 MORE pounds from where I am now…..but I will be happy with ten more, say by the end of the year? We will see what I can do.

I feel like I need something to focus on that is concrete and that I can control (at least somewhat).

As part of the radiation oncologist meeting, I was weighed, weight up 2 pounds from July. Not too bad, as the last month has been a real roller coaster.

So, have 12 pounds to go to lose the original 25.
They told me at the radiation clinic ” we don’t want you to waste away”. Say what? If I lose 12 more pounds, I will just barely have a BMI that is not “obese”. Hmmmm. Need to ask them if it’s okay to seriously try to lose weight while undergoing this treatment or if I should put it all on hold until January.

Was pleased to see that the “official” and dreaded doctor scale shows a fifteen pound weight loss. That’s fiftenn pounds from a year ago. Which was about my maximum weight ever.

Still kind of depressing that it’s taken a year to get rid of fifteen pounds. But looking on the bright side, that’s better than not losing anything.

This goal needs to be kick-started again!

Twenty-two pounds gone now, three more to reach goal of 25 lost from maximum weight.

I am making good progress on this. Can’t wait to hit the 25 pound weight loss mark!

Hurray! I have lost 20 pounds from my starting weight now!

I ahve five pounds left to lose to reach a 25 pound weight loss!

I lost another pound since my last recorded weight. Now I have eight pounds to reach a total weight loss of 25 pounds.

Argh! Still nine pounds to go. I guess not gaining is better than the alternative, though.

We had our first WW meeting of the new year today. Didn’t meet for two weeks due to the holidays (it’s a WW At Work group). Great results: I lost 3.6 pounds since last weigh in there on Dec 16, bringing my total weight loss to 16 pounds. Nine more pounds to go to reach my goal of 25 gone.

So to reach my first goal of losing 25 pounds, I have eleven more to go.

This is my number one goal for this year…..I am going to try to hit the 25 pounds mark by the end of March.