300 Game

Chel got us a membership to the local Wellness Center. We've been talking about signing up for a while, now, and Chel finally got around to it. Heck, we've lived on the same block as the stupid place for the past year and we've never went. It's about what you would figure for a small-town fitness center: various weight machines, treadmills, stationary bikes, some free weights.

And, of course, the dreaded scale.

I like this scale better than the one at work, and the one over at Grandma's house. The one at Grandma's, which we've been using, is a standard bathroom scale; and it works fine, but with all spring-type scales, there's the problem of warping with age, and at higher weights, they're not as accurate. The one at work is a slider scale (like the ones you might see at the doctor's office). Only problem with that one is the fact that it's only calibrated to 300 pounds. Unfortunately, that's not quite enough for me.

But I stepped on the scale at the Wellness Center; and weighed in wearing a pair of cloth shorts, sweatpants, a T-shirt, socks and shoes. I tickled the scale until the bar balanced on its own in the middle of the range, just like you're supposed to. And to my surprising, I had to move the 50 pound weight back a slot.

At 7:40 this morning, I weighed in between 299.5 and 300 pounds. And that was before the 3/4 mile treadmill and mile bike ride.

I haven't been at 300 pounds since well before my wedding. If I remember right, the last time I had to look up at 300 was shortly before Chel moved to Kinsley, and that was 5 1/2 years ago. Since last Christmas, I'm down 25 pounds. My next goal is to get down to 285. That's 15 pounds, or 5% of my current body weight. It also represents between 12 and 14% of my heaviest weight ("Between" because I didn't weigh myself regularly; so I'm not exactly sure what my starting weight was; though I know it was at least 325 pounds; at Thanksgiving I was probably closer to 330.)

And yes, yesterday's post was accurate. That ham sandwich was all I had to eat yesterday. Today is going to be a little bigger, if not better.

Breakfast (5:30 am): 270 Calories
10 oz Apple Juice: 140 Cal
Kashi Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie: 130 Cal

Lunch (11:30 am Burger and Tots): 769 Cal
Hamburger Bun: 84 Cal
1/4 lb Burger: 320 Cal
Ketchup: 45 cal
Mayo: 90 Cal
Tater Tots: 220 Cal
Dr Pepper (24oz ): 300 Cal

Dinner (6:00 pm 2x Roast Beef Sandwiches & OJ): 676 Cal
4 slices Bread: 180 Cal
Roast Beef (5 oz): 301 Cal
Mayo (1/2 tbsp): 10 Cal
Curly's BBQ (1/2 tbsp): 20 Cal
Orange Juice (12 oz): 165 Cal

Total Calories: 1715

Not a bad day. I'm inside my target range (1500-1800 Cal/day) with a little bit of room to spare. Enough room, in fact, to have a homemade iced coffee (6 oz brewed coffee, 4 oz milk, <1 tsp sugar; ~68 Cal) before I go to bed if I'm thirsty. As for what I could have done better; I probably could have done without the tots at lunch, but other than that, I did pretty good.