Friday, January 11, 2013

Starting Weight: 360 lbs.

Current Weight: 199 lbs.

Total Weight Lost: 161 lbs.

Days Until 1 year Weight Loss Surgery Anniversary: 83

Goal Weight by Anniversary: 150 lbs.

Today is a magnificent day. A stupendous day! I am finally below 200 lbs. How amazing is that? This week has been a week of new experiences as well. Completing the police applicant exam and yesterday I went snowboarding for the first time. Let me tell you, snowboarding is so much more flippin' hard than I thought it would be. Honestly, I didn't even make it down the ski school slope up at Ober Gatlinburg but I'm not giving up. I will be back up there bright and early Monday morning to try again.

They said that it's harder to learn snowboarding but that it's easier than skiing once you learn so since I have no frame of reference I can't tell you. All I know is that yesterday was a great day even though I have the bruises today to prove how hard it is.=) It's really a mental obstacle more than anything I think. You just have to tell yourself that it's ok to have your feet strapped to a board going down hill. I found myself panicking a little whenever I would actually get some movement on the board and ended up making myself fall a whole lot more than was necessary. I am determined to overcome that the next time I'm up there though.

So today I am sore, I  was scolding myself earlier about working out so much that I then can't work out for a couple of days but I don't think it could really be helped this week. I hope that I'll be up to working out again tomorrow even if it's just for 30 minutes or so because I don't want to back track on my weight loss and exercise is very important for achieving my goals. Today I think it's best to rest though because my legs are really very sore after all of the exertion I've done this week. Heck, even my butt's sore after yesterday so I don't want to push it too much.

I'm still following the High Protein/ Low Carb, Non-Starchy Vegetables and No Starchy Vegetables diet and it is working! You can see the results with the weight loss. =)

Also, I wanted to take a second to say that the staff at Ober Gatlinbug yesterday were all great. They were extremely helpful and understanding of my scaredy-cat-ness of the board and knew what they were doing. Shout out to the people at Ski School- Mikey, Ted, and Pete! Great guys who were extremely helpful!