The Process marches on...

Another week and another couple of pounds dropped. As of the last weigh-in, I'm at 321.4, putting me down a total of 78.6 pounds from when I started.

One thing I did do this week, though, was shift when I was weighing myself. Since day one, I'd been doing it on Mondays, primarily because, like most Americans, I started this process on a Monday. One thing I'd noticed, however, was a good amount of variance between weighing myself on Saturday morning (when I had more time to get up, get moving, and weigh myself after I'd been awake for a little bit) and Monday morning (when I was rushing more, had usually blown most of my flex points on Sunday, etc). So after thinking about it, I moved to Saturdays for my weigh-in, since that would mean I would use most of my flex points (which usually get used on weekends) at the beginning of my week rather than right before weigh-in and hopefully avoid some of that variance.

One thing I have to do this week is get back to the gym. I need to do this if, for no other reason, I'm paying for it and it galls me that I'm not using it. My goal is to hit the gym Tu/Th/Sat each week, eventually getting to the point I'm in the gym five, if not seven, days a week. Right now, my schedule is fairly packed. I work my main job 5 days a week, including working 2nd shift on Wednesdays. I have a 2nd job that I work on Friday and Saturday nights. I then play poker 3 days a week (Sat afternoon, Sunday evening, and Monday evening), one of which is a money making night at it. This means my time is rather cramped, and I may just end up going to the gym by work on my lunch break again in order to fit it in as well as to be able to avoid eating out as much as I do right now.

I've started following the 100pounds2lose community on LJ, which is a community solely for those with 100+ pounds to drop and is closed only to those who fill out the survey and are in that same boat. So far, it's been good to read posts from other people in the same boat I'm in, including one today from a woman who has gone from 300+ to 180, and is now within spitting distance of her goal of 160. That gives me definite hope that it can be done from a source that isn't media driven (Jared, mmm-kay?).

As the old adage goes, slow and steady wins the race, and my goal is simply to keep chipping away at it until I get to where I need to be. Having to wear a pair of my slacks this morning, though, has shown me I need to buy some interrum pants, though, so they don't look like crap when I wear them--not to mention I already need to replace the jeans I bought back at the first of the year. Good thing my birthday is coming up.