I did not get on the scale this morning. I hurt my foot earlier in the week and I have not been able to do an actual workout all week. My foot is healing so I hope to be back in the routine early next week.

I have still done pretty good this week with watching what I have been eating. Been having a couple bowls of fruit a day and drinking a lot of water. I feel pretty good. I have had some slips with my smoking but I am determined to quit and not slip, will keep working on that.

I do not think I did to bad this week, even with not being able to workout but I just couldn’t get on the scale this morning, was worried that I might have slipped too much and that would be pretty discouraging. Hopefully everything will be back to normal next week.

Sunday night I cut my right foot. Not a small cut, a huge gash, that bleed like you would not believe.

It hurt like hell and bleed all over the place. I am probably going to have to stay off the eliptical machine for at least a few days so I don’t expect this to be a week that I lose much weight.

My eating is going pretty good. I am eating more fruits and drinking several bottles of water a day. I have cut back the sodas from around a six pack a day to one with lunch and then just 2 in the evenings.

I do feel a little better even if I am not losing much.

Hopefully I can get back into my exercise routine in the next couple of days after my foot heals a little.

Things have been going pretty good. I am getting into a good routine of exercising in the afternoons. I am doing at least 45 minutes on the Eliptical machine and I am feeling pretty good.

I am also getting a bit better at controlling my portions and making sure I eat smaller portions several times a day instead of just a huge dinner. I have been eat ing some fruit at least once a day and I am also trying to drink more water and less diet sodas.

Tomorrow is my weigh in and I am hoping for a little better results than last week. I know it is going to take time and I am not discourage I am going to keep working at it.

We had a great weekend in Ocracoke. It is a great place to just get away and relax, especially this time of year since there is really no one else there.

Saturday we rode bikes around the island and took a good walk on the beach.

I didn’t eat too bad, even though Howard’s Pub is a real temptation (Howard’s hush puppies are awesome). We did eat at Howard’s both nights (it’s the only thing open this time of year) but we did not over do it. I had a fish sandwich on Friday night and a couple of crab cakes on Saturday.

We carried some healthy snacks with us to keep us from going to the convience store and buying a bunch of junk. Some 100 calorie oreo cookie packs, a few oranges, bottled water, and diet pepsi. When we don’t have snacks with us we end up at the general store buying bags of chocolate dounuts. I am digging the oranges and I am almost out, need to stop and pick up some more.
Now it’s back to work and back to the routine. Weighed in this morning and I am still holding steady at 229 lbs. I still have a long way to go but I will get there.

I have smoked cigarettes and cigars for as long as I can remember. Since high school actually. Remember when smoking was not a big deal? What about when anyone could be cigarettes? I am not anti-smoke. If you want to smoke, by all means smoke. I even enjoy being around people who smoke. I still enjoy the smell of a cigarette or a good (or even a bad) cigar.

On January 1, 2007 I decided to quit smoking. Yes I know it is corny but it was my New Years Resolution. I have tried to quit several times in the past and have always been unsuccessful. The longest I ever actually quit for was for a week, one of the longest weeks of my life. This time though I decided I would try to get some help from a patch.

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I just finished my afternoon workout. I try to do at least 45 minutes on my elliptical machine 3 or 4 times a week. I enjoy working out on the elliptical and I always feel good when I complete a workout on it.

I currently weigh-in at 230 lbs. Now this is not the heaviest I have ever been, several years ago I was pushing nearly 300 lbs, but I have also been right much lighter. My goal is to get down to (and maintain) somewhere around 195 lbs.

The purpose of this site is more for myself motivation, to help me try to stay on target, keep track of what I am doing. If someone else enjoys reading it or maybe even gets some useful info out of that would be a plus.

I am not sure exactly what I am going to write about here. I am not a writer by any means, if you read this you will probably notice that my grammer and spelling are just shy of terrible. I will probably try to post a few times a week, if not more often. I think I will most likely post at least one weighin a week and I will try to pick an afternoon that I am able to post this on the samel day every week.

Later this week I will probably post a bit on what I think about diets and gyms.

Now it’s off to the shower and then to figure out what is for dinner.

This is my first post here and I do not have a lot of time right now, but since I have the site up and running I figured I should at least say something.

I am planning on posting here often about things that I am doing to lose weight and live a healthier life. I am not looking to bulk up or be some kind of muscled up body builder or whatever, just looking to drop a few of the extra pounds I have put on, eat a little better, and be more active and healthy than I have been in the past.

I will post a little more about me later but I just wanted to howdy and I look forward to sharing what I do and learn with you.