A pretty good day...

Today I hit a small milestone for myself... during our workout this morning, we got to the part where Johnnie has us do wall push-ups (exactly what it sounds like- doing "push-ups", but against the wall), and he said, "Ed & Nandy - it's graduation time. You two are going to do real push-ups today." I froze - he had just evaluated me last Wednesday to see what I could do, and it took me a whole minute just to knock out 4 of them then. But I got down, and whaddya know... 10 push-ups! Not even "girl" push-ups - the real deal! I know that's probably not a big deal to many of you reading this, but people who weigh in the 300's generally don't get a lot of push-ups done. After our time with Johnnie was up this morning, I ran home to take Brenda to work, and when I got to her workplace, I realized that I had a little left "in the tank", so I went back to the gym for an hour of cardio - 30 minutes on the treadmill, and 30 minutes on the recumbent bike.

I have been dreading tonight's weigh-in... sometimes you know that your body is just not doing what you want it to... well, that, and there's the whole "stepping-on-the-scale-and-not-seeing-any-loss" thing, too. I've been working hard, and did not cheat during the Thanksgiving holiday, but I could tell the pounds have not been coming off like I wanted them to. Our trainer let us know all week long that he wasn't happy with us losing the weigh-in last week, and I was very worried. Tonight they weighed in the largest man on the other team, and he gained. I was next, and when it was only 3.6 lbs, I was disappointed that it wasn't more. But when all was said and done, our team had won the weigh-in, I was leading the men in percentage lost so far, and Nandy was still leading the ladies. We're both looking to surpass the 10% mark next week - each of us only needs about a pound, but hoping for much more!