Day 16: Thinner Thursday #1

Tonight was the first of 12 weigh ins for the Central PA Biggest Loser contest, Elizabethtown edition.  I'm am going to go ahead, humiliate myself and tell you what I weigh.

Hold on to your butts.  Their scale put me at 226.8 lbs.  I am 5'4" with a BMI of 39.0 (obesity grade 3 according to our chart) and a Body Fat % of 43.7%.   

When I started going to this particular group last Fall I started out at 248 lb with a BMI of 42.6 and a Body Fat % of 45.9%.  My highest weight 2 years ago was 265 lbs. 

So I've been heading downward over the past year and that's great, but now I'm greedy for success and I want more!  No more putzing around, no more sneak eating, no more "I'll walk extra miles tomorrow to make up for eating/cheating/not walking today."  No one loses 86+ lbs by doing a little bit here and there.  I have a plan that's no joke.  I won't have a whole lot of 'food fun' as I like to call it for quite awhile but hey, I've spent more than enough days of my life eating and tasting and procrastinating.  Now I want to know what it's like to be healthy and centered and full of energy.  Not to mention Stella needs to get her groove back but that's a whole other blog.

I'm afraid my plan is pretty ridiculously simple, so simple most people won't want to do it for so long.  Clean protein (chicken, white fish, lean beef, turkey), clean vegetables of the least starchy variety, lower sugar fruits, herbal tea, spices, water water water. I already know I'm sensitive to wheat and gluten (oh, ABC Water Gap Wheat beer with your twist of lemon, I miss you) and I don't do so well with dairy.  It makes me a bit snotty and gassy and bloated...how much more sexy can one person get?  So it will be treated with caution.  

I can hear the questions now:  How do you get calcium and Vitamin D without consuming dairy?  I take a coral calcium supplement and I go outside and soak up my Vitamin D the old fashioned way.  And I never use sun block...nooo, that shit'll give you cancer.

I'm looking forward to a big number next week.  Think I can hit a double digit??  Dare me...come one someone DARE me!

Seriously...leave a comment that says I Dare You with your name.  All the names will go into a hat and on next week's Thinner Thursday Blog I will pick a name.  That person will win a free Shugified Coffee Lip Balm!  So go ahead, triple dog dare me!

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