Week 50 is behind me

I have finished fifty weeks following the Nutrisystem program. In that fifty weeks, I have shed 116 total pounds as of today. Yes, I had another good loss this week. As a matter of fact, I met Mr. Wonderful's suggestion (in my comment section a few days ago about getting to goal this year) head on and dropped another 4.5 pounds. Now I know I won't be able to continue at this rate, and I don't think it would be healthy to lose at that rate or the skin problem I'm so concerned about will be even worse, but I'm happy to have a couple good weeks to kick off the new year! This means I'm losing an average of 2.32 pounds per week and that's a great thing!

Looking ahead to my March 1 goal of weighing less than 400 pounds, I do believe I'm seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. I have six weigh-ins between now and the first of March with 14.5 pounds to get rid of to meet my goal, putting me at 399.5 which is under 400. I need to drop about 2.5 lbs per week (actually 2.41 for you math minded people) to meet that mini-goal. As I've said since the first of the year, I'm going for it!

Stick around and stop by at least weekly to see if I make my goal. Every day I creep a little bit closer. I believe I'll make it. The odds are for it. Now I just have to keep working at it.

On a side note, I've been counting calories for a while now and for the last couple weeks my calories have been a bit higher than they had been. I was actually pretty freaked out about it last week and then dropped 4.5 pounds. I didn't try to recreate that loss this week, but just continued to eat as I had been and again another 4.5 pounds is gone. You may be wondering how many calories I'm consuming. It's an average of right around 2000 calories per day. I'm thinking 1500-1800 calories were not enough for my body right now. My metabolism is waking up. And the working out with the dreaded Richard every day is likely helping as well. I will continue on, aiming for 1800 calories per day but not freaking out if I go a bit over.

Still not doing so well with the pedometer challenge but I remember my friend Paul reminding me that I'm working on other things right now. I'm not going to get too caught up in the steps right now but will certainly continue to try increasing them daily. I just found out a friend of mine is reading books and poetry that can be downloaded to my computer in MP3 format for free. I'm thinking this may very well be something I can then copy to a CD and listen to in my disc player when I can walk outside again. Someday I'll have an MP3 player and will be able to download them to there. Less bulky, holds more content. I'm looking forward to walking if I can listen to a favorite book, or even a classic I've not read before, while I walk. For any who are interested, this is a free service that anyone can contribute to if you have the time and materials needed. You can find the library here ... Librivox .