2nd week under 250 – but it was a struggle. I’m bored with salads and my alternative isn’t as healthy. I’m eating a lot of soup lately which is starting to get boring too.

Its not that this “diet” doesn’t have a lot of options – its that I have no idea how to make them. There are several restaurants that sell junk food but healthy food is more difficult to come by. I did find a “my fit foods” store this week and picked up two dishes of veggie chili.

See you next week…

Bitter sweet results today… I’ve been stuck in the 250′s for a month, so I’m glad to get out. But lately I’ve realized that all my success has gotten me “down” to what most people would still consider a “before” picture…

I’m officially STUCK! Looks like my new floor is 250. I can’t seem to break it – and I’m not willing to let it break me!

I have wondered if adding exercise in the last month has somehow affected my weight loss journey in a negative (albeit temporarily) way. This may have some indirect truth to it, but after a careful inventory of myself (steps 4 and 10 of the Overeaters Anonymous 12 step program), I believe the truth is I’m overeating.

My appetite certainly may have increased due to the exercise but I’m not eating the right kinds of food (raw and cooked vegetables). Instead I’ve been living in the land of fruit, avocado, and edamame.

Normally these are ok foods to eat, but when they become the main dish, you’ve added a lot of fat (from the avocados), sugar (from the fruit), and salt (from the salt I continue to cheat with when I eat edamame).

The whole point of the Eat to Live diet is to break my addiction to fat, sugar, and salt – but the last two or three weeks, I’ve made those items the biggest portions of my diet. I said in week 13 that I was heading back to the basics – but I obviously didn’t do that. Here goes my next run at it…

Still can’t seem to get below 250… but I’m at 250lbs! So, its bitter sweet!

One pound… I should be happy. Today marks the end of 12 weeks and in 12 weeks, I’ve lost 36 pounds. That’s pretty exciting… but

I am so anxious to get into the 240′s. I knew losing 5 lbs in a single week without Biggest Loser style workouts would be impossible – but I had hopes. I only needed 4 lbs to get into the 240′s but 5 lbs would have put me at 40 lbs down for the year.

Truth is – if I continue to lose a pound a week for the rest of the year, I would be 212 lbs by Christmas!

Ok – looks like last week was not the beginning of the end for me after all… I lost 2 more pounds this week. I’m excited to see what the next few weeks holds for me. I’m just four pounds away from being in the 240′s… That seemed like a pipe dream just a few months ago!

I was very concerned that I was going to GAIN weight this week. I’ve been weighing in through the week these last few weeks – even through I know I shouldn’t. Not because its against some rule in some program – but because I get discouraged by the daily ups and downs.

Well, this week I saw the scale move up to as high as 262! Several days it was around 258-260. Last night it was 260. So I was very concerned that I was going to gain weight this week. The reason this bothered me so much was that during my training for the marathon, I was losing weight all the way until I wasn’t.

If you have followed my blog then you likely remember, I got down to 263 lbs, then suddenly, I was 273, then 280, then 285 again. Being down into my 250′s is new for me. Losing weight successfully is new to me. Gaining weight is not. So I’m still concerned about my recent fluctuation, but today’s weigh-in gives me courage…

another one bits the dust!