Weightloss going nowhere! Garden going everywhere!

A Healthy Start

This year we started a garden to make a healthy start on dieting.

So I decided to show it off a little. All my life I have been around family who planted a garden and it was always somewhere in the neighborhood of 1-10 acres being planted. We might have all peas, possibly all watermelons, or just a mix of everything, you never really knew what was going to be planted.

So when I planted the small patch in the back yard I thought it was just that - small.

My neighbor however informed me today that I had a big garden, it was over 2x the size of hers. I suppose that is relative but nonetheless. Hopefully there will be some fruit of the labors to show at some point.






I did not set out to grow grass but hey it come up free! This pic was taken prior to me doing a little weeding

Summer Goals

Goal #1. Blog more
Goal #2. Lose 25 lbs by new school year
Goal #3. 5 pullups, 5 chinups, 100 pushups, 3 mile run

Its time to look toward summer. My wife has challenged me to 30 days of exercise (excluding weekends). My reward for 30 days without fail will be no yard duties for a whole month ( i hope that includes the weed eating!). Her reward will be a day to herself, no kids, no hubby, no housecleaning. She is already looking forward to a day off!

Pictures coming soon!

It's Alive!!

Our blog, that is....it's been dead for awhile, but is slowly coming back to life. Kind of like our diet..no, we haven't abandoned our diet, just been making some transitions.

These transitions do not appear to be producing a lot of weight loss--let me explain. We are moving toward a meat-free, mainly fresh fruits and veggies kind of diet. Yesterday, I ate my first piece of chicken in two weeks! It was good, but not THAT good. I really do not miss meat all that much. I find I fill up on fruits and veggies and am just as satisfied. As a result of this transition, we have not been writing down what we eat or keeping up with "points" or calories. I think this is where we are falling off the wagon. This week, we are going to start back.

We went out to eat this weekend to the place where they grow the olives. Funny, the only olives I've ever eaten there were a few that found their way into the fresh garden salad. Anyway, John was good--he ordered the salad and feasted on a few stuffed mushrooms. I, on the other hand, could not resist ordering a bowl of fettuccine alfredo. Meatless, yes...loaded with calories, yes....resulting in an abundance of heart burn, yes. Worth it...no. As I ate the salad served beforehand, I thought, wow, this is awesome...why did I order pasta? But I ate it anyway. Note to self: next time, eat the salad!!

Major Goal

If the scale is right I have hit the 40 lb mark!

This was a major goal of mine, of which I said I was going to celebrate with ribs. I have been desiring some good smoked ribs. I have had my eyes set on a rack at the local store and have just been waiting the moment to celebrate. Oh how I can taste them now!

But at this moment I am torn. I would like them but I realize that would not be the wisest choice a dieter could make. Also not the healthiest choice I could make either. So what shall I do for a celebration? Any ideas?

Maybe I should start by setting another goal.

Weeks... Months... ?

Well, Our weeks have now turned into months and I think we have gotten a little behind on keeping up with the weeks so it might behoove us to move on to better titles here.

I think we will still try to post every week with our results to keep you informed as well as give us some sort of accountability. You guys seem to like see the good and the bad that has come of it.

This week I am not sure what has or is happening. I got on the scales and I was back to what I thought to be 274 lbs., which would be a 2-3 lbs loss from the gain. Then I got down on the floor to make sure my eyes had not deceived me and counted those oh so tiny ticks between the numbers and low and behold it was not on 275 but 270!!! Have my eyes betrayed me for so many weeks or did I actually have a breakthrough this week, stepping down from my plateau?

Though I am not sure exactly what has happened or what was going on I think for motivational reasons I will say that I have broke through the plateau. If another comes that will be fine as I see persistence pays off. It is hard to keep that mindset in the middle of a fight that sometimes seems you are losing but when you accomplish a victory you always have something to look back on.