284

It has been a few months since my last post. I always make commitments to post every day, and then ignore it for a few months. So I am done saying that I will post each day, or post a weigh in each week.I'll update and post whenever I feel the need to do so. Now with that being said, I wanted to wrtie about my success I have had.
At my first "weigh in" I weighed 303 lbs. Gross right. Well I am not exactly sure how long ago that was, but the other night while I was at the gym I stepped on the scale and it read 284 lbs. Ah the sweet taste of progress. You see I ususally step on a scale probably once or twice a week to kind of get a gauge of where I am at, and the scale as been hanging out at around 285-290 as of late. What made this time so special? It hit me! I haven't just lost 3 pounds of water weight, no! I have lost 19lbs and I have kept it off!

I realize that 19 pounds is nothing compared to what my ultimate goal is, but it is a lot nicer to think that I need to lose 80 lbs. instead of 100.

Soda Woes

First of all let me apologize for the lapse in posting. I have avoided posting updates because I have nothing really to update. I am however getting back on the wagon. It begins.

I have issues with soda. It's a love hate relationship. I love to drink it, and I hate when I can't drink it. Soda I would say has been my biggest enemy by far throughout all of my weight loss endeavour.Why is it that something that can taste so wonderful and be so refreshing is so bad for you...? I have had a "problem" with soda for a while. In my opinion there is nothing better than having a nice ice cold diet coke with a lemon

 when your eating out, but in everyone elses opinion that will kill me. I guess it would be different if I were a nice svelte 200 pounds, I bet I wouldn't hear a thing about ordering soda, and how bad it is for me, and how Dr. Oz (worst) says that it is the number 1 killer of 23 year old adults named Jordan... I digress.
The whole point of this post is to declare a change I am making in my life. One that I feel is long overdue. I am from this day forward eliminating soda from my life. I don't need it. Not to mention the fact that I have watched people with a much more serious soda issue delete it from their lives and get amazing results. I could just do this the way I usually do, you know not tell anyone and just keep it to myself. The only problem doing it that way is I have no accountability. I realize that I probably don't have anyone who really reads this, but I am going to pretend I do for the sake of feeling accountable, and feeling like people are depending on me. So if you are reading this family/friends please hold me to it. When we go out to dinner and I try to order a soda, just mention that you read this and how you thought I was going to stop soda. It will be a big help.

BTW I will post scale and "before" photos when I get off work. I just don't think my co workers want to see me with my shirt off.  

Geez-O

This crap is hard! Maybe it's just the 22 years of habits I have formed, or maybe it's just the fact that food is so delicious. I don't know but it's hard. I have been "awarded" the task of grocery shopping after I get off work today. I am very interested in seeing what I end up throwing in the cart. I've got my shopping list as well as instructions to "grab whatever snacks I would like" Well the snacks I like and the snacks I should get are 2 different things, let me tell ya.
I controlled myself reasonably on Halloween. So I was kind of proud.
My goal is to be in the 200's when I weigh, and to stay there for the rest of my life (ideally). I apologize for not having weighed in the past couple of days. I am going to be buying a scale and also I am getting a new phone which makes posting pictures easier (plus it gives me a little time to get back down where I should be ya know?) I will post a photo as soon as I have the means.

Sorry no picture.

So my friend broke my iPhone the other day while we were playing basketball so I had no means of taking a photo of the scale. I weighed though!

[300lbs.]

Yes it is I the human yo-yo. It's like the Bear says "you won't lose any weigh unless you exercise!" And she's right, but she is always right so I should have known. I rolled my ankle (again) while playing football with my cousins last night. I just can't resist a game of football. It should make working out interesting, but then again for me working out is always interesting. Jake said we could hit up the weight room at Provo High, and also use the field for drills and stuff. I do better working out when it is sports related. We'll see if Jake will pull through for me or not. If not looks like I will be getting a gym pass. More posts, as well as pictures to come.

Keep it comin'

So I was totally going to ride my bike down to my parents to weigh tonight. I got all ready sweats and all, iPod booming and wouldn't you know it? flat tire. So I ended up driving down to their house to weigh in and pump up my tire so I could exercise.

 

 Not bad right? I mean I definitively would have lost more if I had my tire pumped to ride down, but oh well. Not only was my tire flat, but it had a hole! so I will have to be buying a new tube in order to ride. yay!

Bad Jord!!!

So I am sitting here at work right? And in walks our market manager (a market manager is one who is the manager over multiple branches in any one area, in other words she is my boss' boss) any way she brought in some of the most delicious looking sugar cookies for us as a little reward for meeting our Visa goals (which I was not apart of) Mckay put them in our vault room so we could go back when it was slow and enjoy a cookie. 

WILL POWER!!!

hahah psyche! I ate one. And now I feel like the worst person in the world. I mean the cookie was delicious, not just delicious but sooo delicious, but it was definitely no worth it! I regret it. This is going to be hard. At least I am recognizing my downfalls right?........right?

Bit By Bit

So I headed down to do my daily weigh in at my mom and dad's It was a little better, but it might be at the stage where It was probably just water weight or something, which quite frankly would be my luck.

So I weighed in right at 300lbs which is a loss of 3.4 lbs (probably just water weight) But I am going to be a optimist here, my ultimate weight I would like to be at is 200lbs so I got 100 to go. Now I lost 3.4 in a day which is not common so lets say I lose 4 pounds a week it would take me 6 months to lose 96lbs which would put me at a cool 204. 6 months from today is April 25th. By that day I expect to weigh 200 pounds (assuming I lose more than 4 a couple of weeks.)