Week 3 Results

216 lbs
3 pounds lost
13 total pounds lost
1 inch lost
4 inches total

I made it! I survived Buffalo on a diet! Oh my goodness that was tough. I had to ignore fried: oreos, twinkies, peanut butter cups, cheesecake, pickles, green tomatoes. Pretty much anything you can dip in a batter and fry is offered there. It was hard to find something to eat, but I finally found some barbequed chicken that I could take the skin off of.

When I got to Buffalo, Amy and I went to dinner. It's the first time I've been out to dinner since I started all this. It's tough. You have to find something grilled on the menu and then make sure it doesn't come smothered with cheese or sauce. I spent a lot of time picking toppings off of things this weekend. After dinner we went to the store and I got some shakes and cheese and things to last me. They don't cook much so I have to make sure I had something to eat at the apartment. I took my water bottle on the trip with me, and carried it all around the fair. Stinkin' heavy bottle. Oh well, it saved me from spending all my money on overpriced Fair drinks.

The Demolition Derby was so much fun! It was raining all Sunday, so the track was a mudpit. Amy and I sat in the stands in our ponchos in the rain. Our pants were soaked, our faces were frozen, our fingers looked like raisins, and we had the best time! We were JUST out of reach of the mud that was flying of the track. It was crazy! Mud and Smoke and tires popping and pieces of car flying everywhere. The rain let up and we got to watch a few heats without dripping. There were these BIG SCARY black clouds lurking though, and it was getting dark. It started to sprinkle again, and we left so that I wouldn't have to walk to the car in the dark in the rain. My knee was worn out from Saturday at the fair and I was not walking very well. Tripping through puddles and falling didn't seem very appealing. I mean, I was soaked from the rain, but having a mudbath is not quite the same as a rainbath.

I can't explain how good it feels to have gone away for a weekend, to a FAIR, and I STILL lost weight. The doctor looked surprised when he saw the loss. he said that usually the third week is a "plateau" week, and people don't lose much. He was also surprised that I haven't suffered from constipation. I guess most people get bound up from eating so much meat. It's finally a GOOD thing that I get sick when I eat. LOL. Yay!! Thirteen pounds in three weeks! That's 52 cubes of butter!!