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289.4 today. That’s 5.4 lbs this week, and six days of it was with my daily calorie intake reduced to 1000. That’s 32.2 lbs total.

I have two more weeks to lose 9.4 before my physical, which I seem to be right on track for. In addition to reducing my calories, I’ve upped my cardio significantly. For the last two days, however, I’ve been really hungry in the afternoon and evening, and today during my workout I noticed my energy level down a bit, so I’ll probably up my calories by a couple of hundred to see if that knocks it out. Hopefully that will take care of the problems, and that small increase shouldn’t interfere with the weight loss enough to cause me to miss my goal. After the physical I’ll be upping it a few hundred more.

294.8 today. That’s 2.8 lbs this week and 26.8 total. Pretty good considering I had my first “cheat” day in a month. We had to take a small road trip Saturday, and while Louanne had a meeting, Nadia and I went to the Toy and Action Figure Museum and then to Braum’s for an ice cream cone. That was great fun. And afterwards we all had Arby’s for dinner on the way home.

Having a small cheat wasn’t a significant problem. It just means that I have to be that much more on my guard for a few days so that I don’t make a habit of it…because doing something once means it is significantly easier to do it a second time, and then before you know it you’re off the wagon (or eating it, as I said in my last post). I’m changing my lifestyle, so for now I have to be extra careful so that I don’t fall back into my old ways.

297.6 today, so I broke the 300 barrier! That’s 2.4 lbs this week. I was hoping for 3-3.5, but I’m not disappointed in the least because it is likely I gained some muscle as well, considering the amount of weight-training I’m doing and the high protein diet I’m eating. It isn’t easy to gain a lot of muscle and lose fat at the same time, but the way things are structured in my regime some muscle gain is likely. So, my total weight loss now is 24 lbs.

300.0 lbs this morning. I’m almost three months into my program and it has been almost three weeks since I started the diet portion of it. As of this morning that is 21.6 pounds lost.