Nothing is off the Table (Except the Cookies)

Just poking my head in here to let everyone know that I have not disappeared. I am still here, I am still slowly working on my goals and I will have updates coming. However, I have been very busy spending time with the family and getting some things prepared. I'll have an announcement to make within the next week and at that point I'll get back to releasing content on a weekly basis. Thank you all for sticking with me and I cannot wait to be back and a regular fixture of your lives again.

I wanted to start out by showing part of the artwork that is being designed for this blog, and the future podcast.  This is done by one of my friends, and a talented guy, Adam Leonhardt . Now, let the public shaming begin! One of my favorite things about joining weight loss communities is the before and after shots posted by people who are proud of the achievements they have made during their own journey.  You look at their before pictures and they usually don't look happy, their posture is off and there is just a general sense of doom and gloom.  Then you see their after picture where their posture has dramatically changed and now there is a huge smile on their face.  The picture emits bliss and it is contagious. The only way one is able to post those pictures is they have to take the before shots so that they can get to the after . I took this picture a couple weeks after I started with intermittent fasting with the intention of posting it right aw...

There is much excitement as i'm slowly becoming less and less of a big fat-ass.  Life is throwing curve balls at me and I feel like i'm in the zone and nothing can derail me here at the beginning of my journey. The official start date of this journey is July 1st because choosing the first day of a month makes things easier in terms of tracking and that means that I have been at this journey officially for 3 weeks.  In those three weeks I have gone from 274.4 pounds to now 257.6 pounds.  My next goal is just around the corner and I can taste it. Oddly enough it tastes a lot like water which is the only thing I drink any more. Speaking of water, my goal is to reach 1 gallon of water drank per day.  While I'm not reaching that goal 100% of the time I am reaching it pretty often and when I don't I am still over 100 ounces. Yesterday ended up being my most water drank in what I'll assume is ever at 192 ounces and it was fueled by two different events. The fi...

This current week has taught me that I probably need to come up with a separate routine to go along with the routine that I feel comfortable with at work. When I have working days I have set times that I can take my meal breaks so my pattern is very easy to maintain.  Days when I do not work it is a bit harder because we, as a family, do not have specified times for dinner and we tend to be on the go a good amount.  My past two days off I ended up finishing my meals at 7 PM instead of earlier and while it may not seem like much it does tend to throw off my routine for the next day.  I either have to extend the time when I normally eat or eat normally but cut my fast shorter. This is really not a big deal but it is something that I have ran into so I need to figure it out so my OCD doesn't kick in and throw me into chaos. Also, we had some Mochi balls in the freezer for the past few weeks and I noticed that we were down to just one left.  I decided that it wa...