Getting close to Christmas

It's getting close....I'm wrapping presents and refining the shopping list for the last of the things we need to get tomorrow.  Cooking starts tomorrow evening for our Thanksgiving on Christmas dinner.  I'm on call today and the pager has been busy...time to go answer it again.

CDCC ....The Final part2

I got the pictures into part 1...but than it wouldn't let my type below them so I labelled that part1 and will finish here....so read part1 before reading this pls.

SUPPORT....yes caps on purpose....the best part of these was all the support I got from you all and also the info and motivation i got reading your blogs.  I tried to get to you guys when I was at home and hat Internet but know that i wasn't as good as i should have been.  Mir, Angela, Julie, Betty, Up, .......thanks so much.  Julie I got tired just reading your blog.

books  I should have reversed by reading as I procrastinated so much I never finished wheat belly.  Now I have to read about diet, etc for work at times and am currently exploring some vit and fish oil reading that is causing me to try to restart some items and change others. Anne @ Carb Tripperhttp://carbtripper.blogspot.com/ has some interesting info on Omega3 vs Omega6 that I am exploring. 

Thanks to everyone and I hope everyone has a great holiday season and that we keep up with each other....smaller in the new year!

CDCC ....The Final part1

Well it's the Final...Did I Pass or Fail?

I didn't get honors but overall I feel that I passed.  I did better on some parts than on others, and life got in the way...some.  I not one of those people that says I will never eat another french fry, or that i will never go out to eat a special meal....what I have worked at doing is to change my day to day eating and decrease how much I eat when we go out special and to make different choices.  The Rangers making the World Series messed me up some , but nothing like last year...which was before i started and a lot of what pushed me to get started.  I was way out of control and overall i have done well.  Getting sick derailed me again some and the CDCC helped me get it back under control.....a lot.  With all the things we have done between Sept and now i believe I would have put on 20 or 25 pounds without this challenge.  I did regain 5 pounds over TK week while visiting my kids but in the past that kind of week might have been 15-20 pounds.

Now on to each part...

weight I started at 248...got down to 240...went back up to 245...and end today at 243......for a net weight loss of 5 pounds(and a total weight loss of 52 pounds)

food I planned on 1400-1600 and made that a lot of days but I too found that I don't really lose at that amount....I did find that I'm not tolerating less cal well, actually feel best at about 1600 and may have to work on my exercise more.

exercise I planned on 3 times a week and managed it only some weeks,  I'm having ankle, knee, and hip problems and I think I will have to try to get back to my stationary bike as trying to walk is not working.  Also I need to start moving more in general....I've written about what getting sick did to me in terms of trying to be still before.

fluids I now find 8 glasses easy to do,  did 12-16 most days...unless we were traveling.

dress I bought a new outfit and did wear it but it never really got to fitting and I didn't use it for what I planned to.....but I did fit into something else......so my challenge outfit......which by the way is
pants size 14
top size large
jacket size xl