Weigh-in for July 9th: Almost back on track

Current weight: 288.5Difference from last entry: -2Difference from 2008 starting weight (290.5): -2
Well, that is certainly better. And what is even better than that is the fact that I knew this was going to be a good weigh-in. I worked extremely hard this past week to lose weight. I stayed within my daily [...]

Weigh-in for June 4: Bad, bad, bad

Current weight: 292.5
Difference from last entry: +6
Difference from 2008 starting weight (290.5): +2
Yeah, this is bad. There’s no way for me to even try to hint that there’s good news here. This is bad, very bad. I’ve lost track of my goals, and that has made it easy for me to lose track of my [...]

Recipes

There are a couple of meals that I’ve been eating on a fairly consistent basis. They are all easy, require no/almost no cooking, and are eay to figure out Points-wise (sorry, I don’t have calorie information). Who knows, I may update my Recipes page with this information.
Breakfast sandwich
1 Thomas light english muffin (1 [...]

Weigh-in for March 1: That was surprising…

Current weight: 285.2
Difference from last entry: +0.2
Difference from 2008 starting weight (290.5): -5.3
I was quite surprised to see that I gained weight - even just a little - this week. I had done a very good job of keeping the exercise going (another 50 minutes on Friday, then a 10 minute walk on Saturday). And [...]

Exercise!

Those of you unfamiliar with the Weight Watchers program won’t be familiar with the idea of exercise Points. The concept is straight-forward though: physical activities are given a certain number of Points. One’s goal is to get as many activity Points in a week as they can, depending on their fitness level. I had been [...]