Home Stretch...

With 61 days left in the Augusta's Biggest Loser competition, I have now lost 112.8 pounds. After having lost not one ounce last week, I dropped a staggering 10 pounds this week. I say "staggering" because while a ten pound loss has not been uncommon, it is very rare for someone to pull a double-digit this late in the competition. Charles did it last week with an 11.8, but those big numbers have been few and far between. This was a big boost for me - now I only have to average about 3 pounds a week to make it to my goal of losing at least 140 pounds. My desire is to lose at least 31 more pounds before the end - that will make the first digit of my weight a "1" for the first time since probably 8th grade!

Some of you may want the nitty-gritty, nuts-and-bolts of what I did this last week to drop ten pounds... without going into too much detail, I figured that my body had gotten used to the constant barrage of chicken, and it was time to make a major change to jar things back into losing mode. I stopped eating chicken and started eating tuna instead. Not just any tuna - the "very low sodium" tuna. It was a major change for me, and my zero from last week quickly turned into around eight pounds by Friday, and I managed to squeeze out two more pounds before I had to step on the scale tonight.

I will probably write a longer entry Tuesday, recounting my half-week in Atlanta and trying to stay on a diet while sitting in a Steak and Shake; for now, I'm tired, but very, very happy and pleased. And grateful to God, because I do not have it within myself to have this kind of success at something that I have failed at my entire life.