A New Starting Point

OK, here, finally, are my measurements. I don't have an accurate picture of how much weight I had regained since 4/28 and starting my new job and so forth and basically falling off the McKenna bandwagon, but I started on listening to the mind programming CD and reading the book and trying to follow the four golden rules (not always successfully). Still, I am doing much better.

Here are my new measurements. I think I have lost weight in the last few weeks, because I know I was up over 270 again and I also know that my pants are starting to fit better again, which is a huge thing. So here is a starting point. I'm going to try and keep at least two weeks between measurements and weighing... it might be more.

Weight - 268.4
Waist - 44"
Belly - 45 3/4"
Hips - 53"
% Body Fat - 29.6%

Since 4/28: Weight +2.8lbs; Waist +1", Belly +1 3/4", Hips +1 1/2", % body fat (4/20) .8%

Over all, not that bad. I'll have to modify some of my goals, but seriously here's where I'm at:

July 1 - 255
August 8- 245
September 15 - 235
October 22 - 225
November 29 - 215
January 1, 2009 - 200lbs

Three things I struggle with:
1. Eating due to stress/boredom. Skinny people do not eat due to emotional responses.
2. Eating when truly hungry. I know when I'm hungry. I can eat when I'm hungry. What do I do when I'm hungry and it's not time to eat? (I.e. meeting someone for dinner). Learning how to eat a little so as not to get full but also not be hungry so I don't shut down my metabolism
3. Drinking pop. I know I shouldn't drink non-diet pop. It's full of empty calories. It's now a choice, though,and I notice I tend to reach for non-diet pop instead of water. So the goal is to drink more water and less pop in general. Also the goal of the program is thusly: to control what you put into your body calorie wise. So Control.

Three things I'm good at:
1. Eating slowly. I don't always do it, but I can do it and it does make the food taste better.
2. Throwing food away. If I am eating slowly, I can stop when I am full and throw away the food on the plate. Just the other day I went to KFC and ate about half a chicken breast and a few bites of corn and a few bites of mac and cheese and a few bites of biscut and I was done. A little distressing to throw away all that food, especially the chicken for some reason, but I did it. I'm pretty good about throwing away extra fries at fast food restaurants. And just the other day I ordered a combo from Taco Hut that came with breadsticks and I threw almost the entire order of breadsticks away. Lesson to learn - maybe don't need combos.
3. I am very good at eating what I want and not what I think I should. :)

Thing to work on this week:
Excercise. I need to start walking again and taking more steps in general.