Keeping track of business...

I had been intending on getting serious about my weight again, and had just gotten back on the wagon when Cleo invited me back here for the Mid-Year-Challenge.

I'd taken off a bit before the challenge started, 18 pounds, but I still had more to drop. So, I have been doing pretty well. I am more or less between extended Atkins induction, and OWL. My secret? No real secret, eat fat, fat and more fat! LOL! When I track my foods on Fitday, I do best when 75% or more of my caloric intake is from fat. I also try to avoid Frankenfoods.

What are Frankenfoods?

• If you can't read and pronounce the ingredients, it's probably a Frankenfood.
• If you have no idea if the ingredient comes from animal, vegetable or mineral, it is probably a Frankenfood!

Though technically, the midyear resolution is up December 31, 2008, I have a few reasons that I want to be to goal by late October:

• #1, my birthday is October 27th. I want to give myself the gift of being back in shape.
• #2, my anniversary is November 13th. It would be great to look and feel good by then.
• #3, I know that I have a harder time LOSING in cold weather months, even if I am not partaking of holiday goodies, thus, I, personally consider maintaining from October through February to be a HUGE victory.

So, with those ideas in mind, I want to be firmly in maintenance mode when the cold weather hits.

My siggy line is soon getting far too long from tracking my stats, so, I figured that I'd at least make them easily viewable somewhere before I have to cut my siggy back some!


The fine print, my stats!
Peak not pregnant weight 268 lbs size 24 sweats Goal: 190.0 Height 6'0" Challenge start 5/26
04/01/08 248.5 [COLOR="Red"]Gone[/COLOR] [COLOR="Green"]To Go[/COLOR]
04/30/08 230.5 [COLOR="Red"]-18.0 [/COLOR]
05/26/08 226.5 [COLOR="Red"]-22.0[/COLOR] [COLOR="Green"]36.5[/COLOR]
06/01/08 222.5 [COLOR="Red"]-26.0[/COLOR] [COLOR="Green"]32.5[/COLOR]
06/09/08 221.5 [COLOR="Red"]-27.0[/COLOR][COLOR="Green"] 31.5[/COLOR]
06/16/08 220.0 [COLOR="Red"]-28.5[/COLOR] [COLOR="Green"]30.0[/COLOR]
06/23/08 216.0 [COLOR="Red"]-32.5[/COLOR] [COLOR="Green"]26.0[/COLOR]
06/30/08 218.0 [COLOR="Red"]-30.5[/COLOR][COLOR="Green"] 28.0[/COLOR]
07/07/08 217.0 [COLOR="Red"]-31.5[/COLOR][COLOR="Green"] 27.0[/COLOR]
07/14/08 212.0 [COLOR="Red"]-36.5[/COLOR] [COLOR="Green"]22.0[/COLOR]
07/21/08
07/28/08
08/04/08
08/11/08
08/18/08
08/25/08
09/01/08
09/08/08
09/15/08
09/22/08
09/29/08
10/06/08
10/13/08
10/20/08
10/27/08 <- My B-day, and MY goal day!
11/03/08
11/10/08
11/17/08
11/24/08
12/01/08
12/08/08
12/15/08
12/22/08
12/29/08