Day 8

Weigh In: 230.8

One complete week in the books and weighed in at 230.  Very happy.  Started back up with my personal trainer today, we focused mostly on upper body, shoulders and back.  I left pretty beat. I had the standard Cheerios/skim milk for breakfast, then some soup and salad as Olive Garden for lunch.  I checked few Olive Garden menu items out for nutritional information in Lose It!  Good heavens.  My dad freaked out when I told him how many calories his Eggplant Parm was going to cost him.  He changed to the Minestrone Soup and Salad too.

I have enjoyed just watching calories, I think it is the only way to lose weight.  My wife has been preaching this to me, but I have tried every rotten program there is out there, to some success, but watching calories is the way to go.  The best part about it is you really start to understand how your food choices can make a differences, and what small things can really push you over the top.  So while you are losing, you are learning, and after the weight is gone, you will still have the education and knowledge to make better food choices going forward.  With some of those crazy diets, you are not eating sugar, or no carbs, or fist sizes of protein and a carb, or no fats, blah, blah, blah.  It sucks, you can’t live that way forever. I am just eating the same stuff I normally do, just eating less of the bad (sometimes way less), and more of the good, and it works out. If I want to eat more, then I better get more exercise in that day to compensate.  If I want a big greasy burger, better hit the gym hard to build up the calorie budget to a big burger withdrawal later.