Six Weigh-Ins Left...

That number may or may not be accurate, depending on whether we weigh in on Monday, May 10, and then again on finale weekend. That last weigh-in, we won't know how much we weigh.

 

I had a pretty good number this week - 5.8 pounds down, bringing my total percentage loss to 34.31% of my starting body weight. Over one-third of me is gone - over 117 pounds - and I'm 22 pounds away from my stated goal of losing 140 pounds by the end of this competition. My weight loss chart is almost completely full, with just those 22 little squares left at the bottom of the page. There are two weeks on there that I regret having on there - "no loss" and "up one", but I just marked those with a very small notation on my chart, because I refuse to be defined by two low weeks. By the same token, I did not mark my biggest weeks with any special marks - I just filled in the squares. A little math here: 117 pounds divided by 21 weeks means that, to this point in the competition, I have averaged 5.6 pounds per week. That's almost 3 times the rate of the average weight loss.

 

One of the fun things during this process has been watching my clothes size shrink. If you saw the last video with Nandy and me, you can see how the clothes I used to wear swallow me up now. But I think I'm just about as small as I'm going to get, at least in the hips. All the way around, I feel bones. I'll lose more fat in my thighs and in my belly, but I think my hips are done. Shirt sizes have slowed, as well. I'm a large in most things; a medium in some.

 

Seven weeks from now, I know that I will never see some of these people again, except to maybe run into them at a gym. I will miss them - even those on the blue team, who I only see on Monday nights. Speaking of the blue team - there are pics and videos of them working out outside with Skip and Kristy - I wish I could have had that experience. Maybe one of these days. And a huge congratulations to Colin Heslip, who joined Charles and me as the third member of the 100 club - he'll never see this blog, but congratulations, buddy - it's a huge accomplishment, and I hope your team fussed over you the way the Reds fussed over Charles and myself. Tim will be next, possibly as soon as next week. A couple of the girls still have a shot at it - we may have 5, or possibly 6, people who will have lost over 100 pounds during Augusta's Biggest Loser.