I need to give a shout out to another one of my favorites. (are you kidding me, there are SO many favorites! You all are!). Anyways, I was so happy for Skinny Emmie the other day. She posted a total of 69 lbs. lost. 69 lbs. is a LOT. I made the comment on her blog that I used to work for a fast food restaurants years and years ago and I remember the fry boxes being 36 lbs. and the hamburgers being 50 lbs. I remember how heavy those were when unloading inventory. I think of that often now when I lose weight.
I remember when I lost a 36 lb fry box.
Then I lost a 50 lb. hamburger box.
Now, all together, I'm just about at one fry box and and a hamburger box together lost. That's a lot of burgers and fries!
Now I just need to lost ANOTHER hamburger and fry box and we'll be good!!
I go to the store now and buy 3 lbs. of meat. Or 5 lbs. of meat. Sometimes, I get the big Sam's Club 10 lb roll of ground beef. I think, "How nice it would be to lose this!", Or "I can't believe I GAINED this much!"
It becomes more of a reality for me when I can SEE what 10 lbs. looks like.
Funny how I am posting this today. I actually did a freezer cooking day. I'll be posting about that on my other blog in a week or so. I bought 20 lbs. of ground turkey and make different meatloafs, burgers, meatballs and taco meat to last for a long time. That was a lot of ground turkey!!
I ate good today. I ate about 1500 calories. I'm feeling pretty good. Hope the rest of the week goes well. Scratch that. I KNOW the rest of the week will go well!!
My personal record of my weight loss journey. My goal is to post daily, weigh in monthly and hopefully see some results!
I just had to go check out Skinny Emmie's blog and I love it! Thanks for the link--I'm now a subscriber. Well done on your weight loss so far and I guess I missed your blog on the last weigh-in b/c I see you lost a whopping 6.8 lbs so that you're almost back to where you started! You go girl! That is great. I like how you think of weight loss in terms of those boxes of fries and burgers. I always think of mine in sticks of butter....maybe because I love to bake so much and always have several pounds on hand. It's nice to think, even when I only lost half a pound, "hey that's 2 sticks of butter!" LOL! Keep it up the good work--you'll lose those burgers and fries eventually! hahaha
ReplyDeleteYep, me too. Sticks of butter. My calico cat who weighs 15 lbs. A pound of hamburger meat.
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Hi Debbie, first, thanks for visiting and second Kudos to you for what you are doing here. I have a Weight Loss blog also - which I do meal planning on. I have been stuck at -4 pound for almost 2 months. However I have not stopped exercising one single day in almost 6 weeks! It can be frustrating, but like you I won't give up! Good luck!
ReplyDeletehey thats a good idea for motivation!! i like it! its amazing to actually SEE what the poundage looks like..
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