Hello “weigh-in Wednesday”!  This morning the scale brought the first good news of this voyage.  I am down to 164 pounds (there is a happy dance going on in my head).  This is the last pound of obesity for my height….next stop, “overweight”- Woohoo!

Generally, I knew before I even stepped on the scale, it would be good news.  Don’t we all know ahead of time?  That is why I avoided my scale like the plague during Christmas week.  I knew those festive little peanut butter bon-bons came with a price!

I will be posting tips that I find helpful to me throughout this process.  Today I want to share what makes it easier to not eat late or after dinner.  For me the key is to brush my teeth, and rinse with Listerine right after dinner.  If I wait, I may be tempted to take a bite or two while I am cleaning up after dinner.  If my mouth is all fresh and clean though, I do not even consider it.  Hope this can help you also!

I had some “before” pics, taken this morning.  After all, what is a good story without pictures?!  For the last couple months I kept thinking I was getting some bad and faulty pictures…the ones you see and say to yourself, “they shot my bad angle”.  It turns out I don’t really have a great angle when I am in the obese category.  So here they are:

 

Today’s calorie count was about: 883

Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner	Snack
½ piece toast w/ plant butter Smoothie (banana, almond milk, spinach, flax meal, honey)	1 cutie orange ½ veggie sandwich	1 lettuce wrapped home made lentil mushroom patty with ketchup, Dijon, tomato, onion, & pickle	Half apple ½ cup hummus 3 celery sticks