Monday weigh in

I thought this might be the day and it is....

First 25#'s down.

Weight today 245.

It's strange in a lot of ways because it feels like a lot and it feels like nothing. It was hard and yet it was easy....It's just a strange thing for a few reasons.

The main thing is that it is a good thing. I am 25#'s lighter and there just isn't any downside to that at all. I think this next 25 is going to be the dramatic part where I start to look a lot different. Maybe I just carried that weight as a super thin layer all over because even loosing 25 I don't look in the mirror and see it right now. That is a little mental jab to think you should see some visible results but this is a long game.... It's only the first quarter and I am up 14-0 so there is nothing at all "wrong" here it's just that weight loss on a big scale is so much harder than just the actions of eating right and exercising.

By the way I have decided that the simplicity of some things must be what confuses us because sometimes it is that simple...this is one of them.

1) Eat right
2) Exercise
3) see above

So it is pretty easy to figure out and after you change your mindset about food the "diet" portion is even fairly easy but what nobody tells you is what goes on inside you head all this time. I have yet to go back and read any of the diet books I've owned to see but I'm pretty sure now that unless the authors of those books were super fat at one time they are probably not able to get across this internal piece of the puzzle. And I'm not talking about willpower, cheating, or anything like that..the food part is really not that hard. :)

I'm probably going to get into this later because I feel like it's very important yet it's not something I hear very much about or see portrayed on the various diet reality shows or wherever. They focus on willpower and food almost exclusively...BL goes heavy on the exercise with personal trainers 4 hours per day...but the internal mental game....I don't see anybody dealing with that.

Anyway......

25 down is pretty freaking cool and it is very strange to be looking at that scale and see 245 where 270+ used to be just a number of weeks ago....220 is going to be all the more cooler. :)

This 4th of July BBQ I will be wearing smaller shirts.. It's going to be fun to stop paying the extra $2 for "extended size" shirts. I have been in XXL for a long time now. This BBQ season I will be sporting the less expensive and leaner XL. :) ;)