It has been far too long since I had an update. Every time I intend on doing an update something comes up, or I just cannot find the time to do it. Where to begin, where to begin...
Things have been pretty awesome over the last month. I'm down a grand total of 122 pounds since I started this crusade. While that might seem like a lot to some, for someone who used to weigh 491 pounds it's a step in the right direction :-). Losing weight is harder now that I've dropped the first 100, and because of that I signed up for a membership at lifetime fitness and I see my personal trainer tomorrow. I'm hoping that over time I will continue on a great weight loss pace, but I understand that slow and steady wins the race.
Now that I am so far into this endeavor I will say that there is pretty much nothing that I cannot eat. I still completely stay away from sugar, that is a personal choice, but of the real sugar I have had there have not been problems with it. For example, I had a chocolate covered strawberry and I was fine. I don't make a habit out of eating regular sugar, but every once in awhile it's okay. I'm now able to eat about the size of a lean cuisine for a meal. This is exactly what my doctor told me I would eventually be able to do. As long as I stick with the program, meaning don't drink while I eat, stay away from things like soup, ice cream, liquidy foods, etc. then I do just fine. I have yet to have any negative deficiency weeks, meaning I'm still losing weight each week. I am confident that with working out at lifetime fitness and having a personal trainer I will maintain my weight loss going forward.
As far as my personal life goes, I have completely quit all gaming online. I just don't have any time for it anymore. We closed on our house last week. It was such an amazing feeling buying my first home. Now, granted, there have been some unexpected issues, specifically with the plumbing that I was not expecting. Luckily I have amazing friends who go out of their way to do whatever they can to make sure that we are taking care of. Not only that, my parents have both been completely amazing and I really appreciate all of the help they've given us over the last few weeks. The house is lovely :-) it's so big and spacious, I never feel like Adam and I are in each other's way anymore. In the apartment there were times that we would do something in the same room but it would almost feel like we had to be in the same room because we had no other option. It probably would have been better to be in a different room since we were both doing something different. Now we no longer have that problem anymore. There are quite a few things that we would like to change about the house, but that comes with being a homeowner. Over time we will make changes, and we both have great ideas of what we want to do to the place. For example, Adam just painted part of our basement a midnight blue color. It makes our new television really stand out against that wall :-). Other than that, we take it one day at a time and are happy and proud homeowners :-).
Work is going very well and I cannot imagine having a better group of people that work for me. I absolutely love my team and my peers. We are starting a new endeavor at work with opening a site in another country, so it has been very busy as you can imagine. On a side note, I did recently sell my iPad which I didn't really want to do, but we needed money for homeowners insurance and it was just a logical thing to do. In its place I bought the new Nexus 7 tablet from Google. It is completely fantastic and I am happy that I switched. It's much smaller and more my speed, with lots of extra tech type stuff thrown into it ;-)
Overall, things are going well and everyday I get a little bit smaller. I'm looking forward to our vacation later in the year as long as we can afford it. Hell, I may even get the courage to go swimming in the pool at lifetime fitness. I'll probably wear a shirt, but at least I'll do what I absolutely love lol :-). Take care everyone and happy and healthy eating to all!
