Yippee!!!!!

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Weekly weigh-in

Cliff is at 215, I'm 147.  I'd easily lose more weight if I'd stop snacking in the evening; that's a very hard thing to do in fall and winter.

Both of us can tell the calisthenics and weights are shaping us up quite a bit.  Of course, Cliff does some real weight-lifting at work, so he's the one with major changes.  But I can tell a difference in myself, even though it's only twenty minutes, three times a week.

Today we probably won't get a walk in, since it looks like it's going to be drizzly and cloudy.  The days we miss our walk are few and far between.  Cliff takes Sundays off, but I don't.

I haven't been updating this journal very much because I'm simply maintaining, and Cliff's loss is slow, but sure.

Wednesday weigh-in

Wow, Cliff is proud of himself.  He weighed 215 1/2 this morning.  I'm not doing so bad myself, at 146.  I've been there before, but my weight had been edging up lately.

One thing I'm working on now is drinking eight glasses of water a day.  Somewhere, perhaps on Sparkpeople.com, I saw this suggestion:  Put a stack of eight pennies on the left side of your glass in the morning; every time you drink a glass of water, move a penny to the right side of the glass.  This is working for me.

Of course, it doesn't make me any happier about all those trips to the bathroom, but at least I'm getting my water.

I know some people carry their water with them and sip on it, but the only thing that works for me is to gulp down that glassful as fast as I can, as though it were medicine.  Get it over with, I say!

Time to check in

Cliff and I weighed 218 and 148, respectively.  Our weight goes up a pound or two, down a pound or two.  Cliff is still losing weight, just doing it very slowly.  Me?  I'm maintaining.  After our motorcycle weekend, I got on the scales the next morning at home and was 150.5.  HORRORS!!!  I never want to be over 150 again.  Thank goodness it was temporary.

Cliff started doing some dumbell exercises, and I figured I may as well join him.  I use lighter weight dumbells, of course.  We also incorporated some old-fashioned calisthenics into the program.  So now, after our daily half-hour walk, we spend 20 to 25 minutes with the mats and weights.  I'd never do this on my own:  I hate pushups and lifting weights.  But as long as Cliff's doing it, I may as well.

I've decided to switch back to genuine butter for baking, in those few recipes where olive oil won't work.  I know it's high in cholestoral, but at least there aren't any trans fats.  About the only thing left in my house with trans fats is the stick margarine, and once this is gone, I won't be buying any more.

Oh, I want this T-shirt!