So, a bit of honesty here… Below is the original paragraph and post that I had written based on my weekly progress for week #8 of the reboot. It didn’t start out being a great week and honestly, I thought it was going to be one of those times where maybe, just maybe, I squeaked in with a 1 pound loss. The scale was locked in the 285.x’s this week and I was all prepared with my “Non-Scale Victories” this week. What I didn’t expect was what I ended up with. I began the week at 286.8, just like it says below, but this morning at weigh-in, I came in at an amazing 284.0. I’m really hoping this wasn’t one of those “fake weights” like I have gotten on two days during this 50+ days in, but we will see tomorrow. That brings the loss for this week in at 2.8 pounds and takes me to 34.6 pounds total since The Reboot started. As good as that is, I had set myself up for a very disappointing week, but here is what the progress looks like so far.
I began the week just passing the 30% mark on the way to my 100 pound goal. I wrote quite a bit about what many refer to as “Non-Scale Victories” and the timing couldn’t have been better. This has been one rough week over all. I came in at 286.8 after a pretty good loss last week, but this week started off just wonky as all get out. The scale was all over the place depending on the time of day and what I was doing. Finally, after everything settled, my weigh-in weight was ____, or a loss of just ____ pounds for the week. Now, that right there is something that I need to change my mindset on. There is no such thing as a “minimal loss” in this journey. I need to start thinking of everything as a step in the correct direction, not in the, “it wasn’t as good as last week,” style format that I normally do about this point in time. Instead of worrying about what others have lost, or what I didn’t lose, let’s look at a few key numbers that are really amazing.
33 POUNDS
Head over to your local grocery store. Walk into the produce section and grab 3 ten pound bags of potatoes and carry them around for 5 minutes. That is the amount of weight I have dropped in just 2 short months of dieting. It’s not a life changing amount yet and I still have a ways to go, but three big bags of potatoes are gone from my body. That’s a pretty amazing start.
8 PANT SIZES
As I mentioned in last week’s post, I was wearing a size 46 pant when all this started a few months back. I am now comfortable in the new size 38 pants that I just purchased. I also had to replace my underwear as it became a bit too loose in too many places. Again, not a huge thing, but WOW, it’s nice to be out of the “big” section at stores.
2 SHIRT SIZES
Moving from a 4XL or a 3XLT to a 2XL is pretty amazing. I’m not 100% of the way there yet, but my old 3XL shirts are starting to fit again and the 2XLT’s they have in the store are a solid yet as well. Even some of the 2XL’s that I held on to from the past are starting to fit a bit better and are even wearable.
These types of things are what this is all about. Feeling better, feeling stronger, feeling like doing more every day. As the month of September comes to a close and the end of month number two on this reboot ends with it, I have nothing but the best thoughts of going into the holidays and enjoying as much golf as I can with my Winter Pass this season. I’ll be making that effort to hit the course to walk 9 holes much more often this winter and I have ever intention of spending as much of my Christmas week break at the course as well. Hopefully this will keep my eye on the prize and keep me moving towards my goal of losing 100 pounds before next season.
So, that was the original post, once again, where I was all set up for a bad week. I was originally going to redraft this whole thing, but honestly, I think it’s just as important to share what I thought was going to be justification of bad news as I did sharing the great news. Lifestyle changes aren’t just about simple results, they are all about the progress of accomplishing something bigger. It sounds stupid to admit this out loud, by at my range session yesterday, I sat down on the back of the van to get my shoes on, just like I had done over and over again over the past few years and I was able to bend down to the ground to tie my shoes instead of lifting my leg up to meet my body half way. People take things like that for granted, but for me, it was such a strange feeling of accomplishment. For the record, my practice session was simply amazing yesterday with even my long irons flying beautifully with a perfect draw…
Yesterday was a good day. As I approach 35 pounds now, I see the half way point in sight. With any luck, I’ll be celebrating my 50 pounds lost on Halloween!
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