19th week weigh in

Weight today 231

Total weight loss to date 39#'s

I've started averaging 1# loss per week lately and if that holds for next week I'll have lost 40#'s in 20 weeks for a flat average of 2#'s per week.

Slow and relatively steady has been the trend so far.

I think it's cool that in July I'll be in the 220's. That's not something you normally hear people say but if earlier this year they weighed 270 and it's just now mid year then the perspective is different. The idea that I'll be around 210 and possibly looking at the 200-single digits for Thanksgiving this year is pretty outstanding actually. That will put me at ~70#'s weight loss inside a calender year that did not even start in January. Not bad.

There that was my mental check but there is another side....

I'm not feeling as mentally "changed" as I'd like to.

I'm really trying to feel more like my body has changed to and is changing towards, more healthy, fit and in shape. I feel it physically...I'm getting stronger everyday. That isn't an issue but I'm finding that my mental self image does not mirror the scale. When you loose 20#'s it does not auto-transfer to the brain and make the correction.

I think I'm going to have to collect some "proofs of improved fitness" to the game as evidence for my brain to evaluate when it provides my self image.

Hmmm, Angie was telling me yesterday about the closest 14ers to Durango Co. and we are planning on riding that Durango Silverton RR in a few months.....I think it's time to put the research and planning to my 14er project......