Half of Phil

Last week was hectic and I missed posting my update.  Crazy week of working remote and more soccer club drama.  Happy to now have my son on a new soccer club and even more excited the more I get to know his new coach.  He's very experienced and took a group of U14 boys from an also play team to the state championship game by they time they were U18.  I'm excited to see what he can do with this new team that's forming. You'll notice a new tracker on the left of the blog.  It's a few lbs off because obviously I wasn't tracking by in 2015 when I hit my max weight I estimate at 430.  But in the grand scheme of things I'm going to go with the tracking that is there going forward. So while over all I'm down 40 lbs this year, since I've only been since April 25, 2016, by this widget I'm down 29 lbs over 13 weeks which works out to over 2 lbs per week.  More importantly than this my energy level is much higher.  I mowed the grass last night in mid 90...

So July 25 will be 3 months of daily tracking my meals and walking 5 times a week.  It doesn't really seem like that long ago, but I just checked the calendar and counted on my fingers to confirm it. Over the 4th week I didn't walk, but we were at the beach and I stayed really active.  We were at the ocean nearly every day and they days we weren't I was working on a bathroom remodel.  I took the kids out and we swam at low tide across Tuggs Inlett it is between Sunset Beach and Ocean Isle.  Lil Bit did great no issues, other than got tired and panicked on the way over at the end.  The boy surprised me and struggled going and coming.  I guess her swim lessons are paying off.  It is definitely not something I could have done last summer.  So that is a win. I'm losing weight slow and steady.   I'm down 37 pounds in 12 weeks.  Seems like it's a very slow go, but looking at the numbers there that works out to 3 lbs a week.  That pret...

So I missed a week of checking in with the blog.  But the good news is that while traveling last week I did walk every morning.  The road by my moms is right at 1 mile long and I walked up and down every morning.  The extra incline was tough!!! I also stayed on track with my eating.  I've walked every day this week as well and kept my intake in check. I don't know how to best express it, but I can't believe how much better I feel in general since starting this new journey.  My activity level is much better, I'm not experiencing nearly as much back pain and foot pains I once thought were just part of life have basically subsided.  Dont' get me wrong I'm still sore most days at times, I mean I'm still 40 years old an 395 lbs, there's gonna be aches and pains.  But I'm happy to report I'm moving in the right direction. The next few weeks will be hectic, we'll be traveling a lot and off schedule.  I'm committed to seeing this through, s...