My Weight Loss Journey

Red shirt, last fall, estimated 325 lbs.

Pink shirt, Easter 2009, around 282 lbs.

I don't see a lot of difference in these two, but I got a lot of compliments from Facebook friends about how much thinner I looked in the Easter picture. Do you see it?

Since the 25th of January I have lost about 70 pounds. I weighed in that night before going to bed at 332 pounds. When I got up this morning I was 260. When I told a friend that I needed to start blogging again, I was told this was one of the things I should have been blogging about. Technically, I have. I have kept a web log on a published Google Docs Spreadsheet detailing the journey. Feel free to look over the spreadsheet. Most of my progress for February through April is detailed on the page labeled "Mike." I was supposed to be having a contest with a friend named Jay during that time, but if you look at the page labeled "Jay" you'll see that he didn't hang with me. Jay is still working on his weight loss and I wish him all the luck in the world.

Now that our contest is over, I wanted to start a new page that compares my current weight with my January 25 weigh in at home. The old "Mike" page had a later start date, February 2, since that was the beginning of our contest. By February 2 I was already 5 pounds lighter dressed at the doctor's office than I had been at home undressed on January 25th. So the "home" page compares the current weight with the beginning of the Journey, not the beginning of the contest. Comments and encouragements are appreciated.