Determined To Succeed

Good Sunday morning, my friends.

OK. So I didn’t do bad at all eating yesterday. I had a 170-calorie Egg & Cheese Wake Up Wrap from Dunkin’ Donuts and a small (not medium) coffee with sugar for breakfast. For lunch I had a nice piece of chicken and small salad and for dinner I had a Wawa Italian hoagie (translation: I had an Italian sub from the best convenience store on the planet), some cheddar Sun Chips (in their new 100% compostable bag – awesome of them BTW) and ginger ales.

So I am starting today the same as yesterday but not as scattered as yesterday. I also did more of a circuit of the machines at the gym. I started doing leg lifts, then the leg resistance machine, then the weighted arm resistance machine and THEN I did the elliptical. Talk about shock. I was feeling a bit sweaty BEFORE I hit the elliptical but it was great.

Today it looks to be the same except I am talking weight today. I am talking weight with several different people. First, I am talking weight with the two other people profiled with yours truly in the March issue of SJ Magazine. Like the “Oz 100,” it’s so interesting to hear both the similarities and differences in other’s weight loss. Then, at 5:00 p.m. EST today I will be a guest on “Essentially Fit,” an internet radio show on BlogTalk Radio. The host, Wess Murray (who himself lost over 100 lbs.), will be interviewing me about weight loss and we’ll be talking tips and stuff. It should be fun, especially talking with people who collectively lost over an additional 330 pounds!

So all these things help keep me grounded again today. It may be snowing (AGAIN) in southern New Jersey but my day is bright. The “Battle of the Final Ten” looms in the distance but I am ready for it again today. Calories and pounds don’t take a day off and neither will I. And I know as you guys continue in your journey today you will do well, too. Hell, I resisted all the temptations of a soft pretzel from Auntie Anne’s Pretzels in the mall yesterday and the call of a Milky Way bar. See, I am human, too. I get those cravings, too. And even though it is the weekend and you may or may not check in with me I am still here for you. We are in this together. All of us.

I have faith in you.