Hello it's me!

Wow so much has happened since I last blogged. In a nutshell: - I gained weight and reached my heaviest weight ever of 172 lbs in May - On May 23, I joined Medifast in San Antonio since they have a center near my work location. - As of today's date of 7/19 and 2 months of being on the program, I have lost a total of 15.5 lbs. That's about an average of 1.9 lbs each week! So in case you're not familiar with Medifast, it's a strict,low calorie diet where you have five of their meals and then one "Lean & Green" meal which is a lean protein with 3 servings of veggies. A lot of people think it's of the same cloth as Jenny Craig and NutriSystem since you have to use their food. Well that's where the similarity ends in MY book! Medifast is just so much better - well for ME it is. Here's why: 1) They monitor your health stats VERY closely. From the 1st consultation where they do a body composition analysis on you that lets you know what your fat percentage and lean mass percentage is. 2) Every week you get a blood pressure reading 3) Every week you have a one-on-one session with a counselor 4) Every month they take your measurements and do the body composition analysis to check your progress These are the reasons why this program is working for me. I need that extra attention. I've been on Weight Watchers and it was successful for me in the past but when I tried it earlier this year, it just wasn't working for me. It didn't click. Nothing against the program because I know that it DOES work. In fact, my older sister Cindy lost 25 lbs with WW and she's about to reach her goal weight. I guess over time, your needs change. And as your needs change, the program that best fits you and your life can change too. That's what happened to me. And now, I'm feeling better overall. It's just a matter of getting in the exercise. I've been working long hours at the full time job and then lots of hours at the part-time one so free time has been scarce. But now that it seems things are going back to a normal level, I have more time to exercise. This past week, I did 5 days of exercise and feel good about it! So since I'm at 15.5 lbs, I have set a goal to reach the 20 lb loss mark by August 1st. 4.5 lbs in two weeks? That should be do-able. And now that I'm exercising more, I'm hoping that it will be a piece of cake. And then I've set a milestone goal of when I have reached the 23 lbs loss mark, which is the halfway to goal point for me, I will buy myself the Nike Plus Fuelband ($150). I'm hoping to have that in my hands by mid-August. It will be awesome to reach goal by the holidays! I'm pretty sure I can do this. So let me keep on trucking on this adventure to a skinnier me!