mesasone
07-08-08, 12:57 PM
So, as some of you may recall, on June 1st I weighed my self for the first time in quite awhile, and after six weeks of riding I was coming in at a bit over 340 pounds. I did not weigh in before I started cycling, so I had no frame of reference on how I was doing in terms of weight loss, but I was shocked to see that I was so high. Well, on the 11th of June I had another weigh in for our yearly biometrics screening at work (last year was the first year they did this, and they did not take weight), and came in again at around 340 lbs.
Anyway, I hopped on the scale at work Sunday night before heading home (was working weekend OT), hoping to come in at around 330. I figured 10 lbs would be a good amount of weight to have lost in the past month. Well, I came in at 305 lbs. I thought it had to be a mistake. So, again, I weighted my self last night before heading come... 313!
I'm thrilled to have made so much progress. I've even had a few people mention my weight loss recently. But I want to temper my excitement a bit, as to not become discouraged to find that I haven't really lost all that weight! It seems like alot of weight to have lost, not least of all considering how bad I've been in the past months. I've been primarily working on getting more fruits and, especially, vegetables in my diet, but that hasn't stopped me from ordering pizza once, having a microwavable burrito, and some other less than healthy food choices. And, I've only been commuting to work... 2.5 miles each way.
The scale at work is a very nice digital scale that certainly looks to be built for the medical profession, and I made sure it let it calibrate itself to 0.0 lbs before hoping on. I'm really excited to pick up my LHT this weekend and hopefully start throwing down some real miles, and hopefully keep even a fraction of this weight loss up.
Has anybody else lost such a huge amount of weight in a short amount of time? In the past, I've lost weight fast once I started eating right and working out, but never this fast. Of course, I've never had this much weight to lose either. It does seem almost unhealthy, though.
I apologize for the somewhat rambling nature of this post, I have to get going to work and don't have time to go through and edit it to make more sense.
Anyway, I hopped on the scale at work Sunday night before heading home (was working weekend OT), hoping to come in at around 330. I figured 10 lbs would be a good amount of weight to have lost in the past month. Well, I came in at 305 lbs. I thought it had to be a mistake. So, again, I weighted my self last night before heading come... 313!
I'm thrilled to have made so much progress. I've even had a few people mention my weight loss recently. But I want to temper my excitement a bit, as to not become discouraged to find that I haven't really lost all that weight! It seems like alot of weight to have lost, not least of all considering how bad I've been in the past months. I've been primarily working on getting more fruits and, especially, vegetables in my diet, but that hasn't stopped me from ordering pizza once, having a microwavable burrito, and some other less than healthy food choices. And, I've only been commuting to work... 2.5 miles each way.
The scale at work is a very nice digital scale that certainly looks to be built for the medical profession, and I made sure it let it calibrate itself to 0.0 lbs before hoping on. I'm really excited to pick up my LHT this weekend and hopefully start throwing down some real miles, and hopefully keep even a fraction of this weight loss up.
Has anybody else lost such a huge amount of weight in a short amount of time? In the past, I've lost weight fast once I started eating right and working out, but never this fast. Of course, I've never had this much weight to lose either. It does seem almost unhealthy, though.
I apologize for the somewhat rambling nature of this post, I have to get going to work and don't have time to go through and edit it to make more sense.