Official start weight, as of this morning: 319 lb.
Goal date: March 19.
Goal weight: 250 lb.
Skewed view of reality: check.
I actually took sufficient MediFast with me to be good, and a couple of mornings, I even had the oatmeal (shudder) for breakfast. I need to figure out some other way of dealing when I'm at home. Everyone wants to cook, and there's ALWAYS food in the house. And it's GOOD food. My sister B makes these sweet stuffed sausage rolls (basically little smokies wrapped in crescent dough, baked in a honey/brown sugar glaze), and my sister L makes mac & cheese that Daughter calls "Aunt L Macaroni" (which she requests whenever we visit). Plus, Mom's gotten it into her head that she needs to get up and cook us breakfast several days while we're there (bacon or sausage, scrambled eggs, toast...) At home, I can just not buy/not stock the ingredients and the problem is more or less solved by out of sight/out of mind. Clearly, if I'm going to maintain a healthy weight once I get there, I need a strategy for dealing with family food. Lucky for me, the next time I'm planning to be up home is after my latest goal date, so maybe I can let success speak for me. I just don't want to hurt anyone's feelings by snubbing their work. But I guess there's a reason that there are only three or four of us (including in-laws) who could be said to be in "good" shape, and mostly, they're the ones who are known to have some peculiar (if not healthy) eating habits.
I may have to break out a Dr. Phil "food-is-not-love" speech.
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