get my weight below 200 pounds

217.6

23 pounds down, 17.7 to go!

Down to 218.6! 22 pounds down, 18 to go.

222.8 lbs this morning. At my current rate, I’m hopeful to get to 200 by New Years.

After getting down to 224.2, I broke the diet for a couple days and got up to 227.0. However, after hitting the gym 5 times last week I got down to a new low today of 223.6. Yay!

I ballooned up to 240.6 pounds. Earlier this week I got it down to 224.2. Still a long way to go, but I’m encouraged I can get there.

Back in July 2007 I adopted this goal after seeing it on Patrick Weintraub’s list. I’d just finished losing seven stone, and instead of creating an eight stone goal which didn’t exist at that time, I figured this was as good a goal as any to adopt at that point since I was within a stone of doing it.

At that point though I stopped working hard to lose more weight. I was looking very ill according to friends and family because of all the loose skin from losing the weight so quickly (just under nine months). I began focusing on other goals like running a marathon and slowly my weight started creeping back up until I’d gained about two stone back that I’d lost. I took off one of those stones but for the last year have basically kept losing and gaining the same pounds over and over again.

As of this morning though, I’m now two pounds lighter than my lowest weight of 2007. In fact, I’ve not weighed this little since my sophomore year of college 22 years ago. What’s helped me regain my focus is a 21 day weight loss challenge that Aaron got me to join over on Twitter. Deni H and I have been working on weight loss together for over a year and it just wasn’t happening for me. Competition works for me. (I’m in the lead by the way.)

Last week I was two stone away from my end goal. Now I’m a stone and a half away. This goal will be marked off before I get there, but with the progress I’ve made this month I may just hit my hoped for target date.

Hopefull if i keep working out i can burn off this fat..

vacation was bad for diet and i put on about 10 pounds, but I’m going hardcore on it now because I want to look good for the engagement shoot and the wedding.

no sweat (well some sweat but totally worth it).

Trying to kick it up a gear to lose weight before the wedding and an extra gear because I have a doctor’s appt this week and don’t want the guilt of the doctor telling me I haven’t lost enough weight.

202.4 as of this morning. Considering I was once over 240, I’m pretty happy with this.