Showing posts with label Easter dinner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter dinner. Show all posts

Week 10 Progress Report: Easter Victory


Start Weight:
269.4
Original Target*:
284.6
Adjusted Target:
267.6
Actual Weight:
267.6
Loss/Gain:
– 1.8
Total Loss:
– 35.0
% of Goal:
25.3%
Avg. Loss/Wk.:
– 3.5
*Original target calculated from a starting weight of 302.6 lbs. and an average loss/wk. of 1.8 lbs.

Resurrexit sicut dixit, Alleluia! Christ is truly risen!

Easter Sunday was great, but not the way I normally want to do things. A big cup of coffee and a Reese’s snack-size cup carried me through the morning to mid-afternoon, when we had an Easter early dinner that couldn’t be beat. Ham, potatoes, candied acorn squash (plenty of butter and brown sugar), marshmallow salad, rolls, and a brownie for dessert. Plus a shot of Catch Fire cinnamon whiskey (“That’ll wake ye up in th’ mornin’ lads!”). It was my one meal yesterday, and I blew my budget on it. And then some.

And I still dropped a pound. In fact, despite seemingly hitting a plateau earlier this week, I had lost the 1.8 pounds I had originally set as my weekly goal. My best guess is that I burned more calories preparing dinner and helping Mom than I thought I had.

That was my Easter victory.