Fitness Blog

Friday, 8/15/25

I hit record lows for 2025 this week, I hit 271.8 pounds, but I’ve still got a long way to go. I was looking at some old photos of myself, and even though I weighed much less than I do now, I was still extremely obese. In the photo it was May of 2017, and I checked the date of the photo with what I weighed on my weight log for that date, and I was 259 pounds. It’s good to keep records of my weight so I can go back and see what I did right or wrong at that time.

I started eating boneless skinless chicken breast with cabbage, onion and zucchini cooked with avocado oil, and my weight shot down faster than usual.

It’s weird how I seem to have weight loss figured out now, but I couldn’t find a solution all the way back before 2017. The diet and exercise plan I’m on now seems to be working, I wonder why I couldn’t figure any of this out sooner. I guess that’s the lament of anyone who lost weight. Hind sight is 20/20.

On Sunday night, someone gave me some sherbet ice cream after I had eaten all of my calories for the day. For most of my life, I would’ve eaten some of it or all of it as soon as I got it. I put it in the freezer for another day. I’m looking forward to seeing the scale at a lower weight each morning, and that is more important to me than the temporary thrill of eating something sweet. When I did finally eat some, I only had two thirds of a cup, the suggested serving size.

We only get one body, and if we want to live as long as possible we need to eat right and exercise and maintain a healthy blood pressure. Thinking in those terms can be the difference between succeeding on a diet and failing.

I went to do laundry and stayed away from the burrito truck and the convenience store. I checked my blood pressure the next morning and I was 124/94, which is the best reading I’ve had since getting my blood pressure monitor. From now on, I’m going to focus on how my choices will affect me the next day.