September was a tough month in the weight loss battle.
I'd been hovering around 253 for a while, sometimes a little south of there, and sometimes a little north.
Today, I'm super proud to say that I'm at 250.2!!
I can't tell you how excited I am to be at the precipice of the 240's. I'm more determined than ever now
to break through.
Snapshot of progress through Oct 1, 2016
This past week I entered a new dimension of the diet effort: I was introduced to the protein shake.
I'd started having them in addition to my usual breakfast as a means to stave off hunger through lunchtime;
but, for a couple of mornings later in the week, they were my breakfast — simply as a function of life and
work getting in the way of preparing anything else. And I was pleased to find that I didn't really need anything else.
So I'm happy to consider them another tool I can use.
And speaking of tools, we have another: Laurel finally sealed the deal on a treadmill. She bought a NordicTrack
unit that was a floor model at Sears — a $1500 unit she bought for less than half of that price (though the
extended warranty bumped our cost up a bit).
We had to take it apart to get it into our house. The deck would fit through the front door, but the
stand was too wide to fit in a normal orientation, and too tall to fit regardless of rotation.
Part of the reason it was sold for such a low price was because the incline motor is borked. The deck is
stuck at a 1 or 2 percent incline and doesn't respond to the control panel. Nothing a little warranty work won't correct.
That treadmill is going to come in very handy when the weather turns colder.
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