Sunday Morning Weigh In - Happy 4th of July

133.4 lbs lost since starting the Tufts program.
147.5 lbs lost from my all time highest weight.

Another good weight loss week. I am still on a roll! Didn't get as much gym training as I would have liked but was moving all week with getting ready to be on vacation and doing yard work. Had a busy weekend last weekend with 4 birthday parties (one of which was for my daughter) and a trip to Gillette Stadium for a Taylor Swift concert (my girls loved it by the way).

We are vacationing on beautiful White Horse Beach in Plymouth, MA and camping in an awesome Amerilite Camper. I swear it was literally a breeze to set up and get everything ready once we arrived. Amazing how much easier every thing is to do now at this lower weight and how far I have come since this time last year. To step back to last year at this time I was pretty close to my highest weight, had sciatica so bad that I had been out of work for four weeks because I could not literally sit down for my desk job and could basically only lay down without awful pain. This injury was the straw that broke the camel's back and got me seriously thinking about weight loss surgery. They say you always are at your lowest point before you rise out of the ashes. This was my lowest point... I had everything going for me (a beautiful wife, two amazing little
girls, a great job, my health (except for morbid obesity), etc...) and I was throwing it all away. I thank God every day that I finally had the courage to do this, become the phoenix that I needed to and am not looking back... Anyway, I digress, I had my first full day on the beach yesterday and had a great time. Took a nice, long walk with the kids down to some friends who are about 1 mile down beach at a cottage they own. This was a walk that I would never have made last year and I tell you it felt amazing and liberating. I loved it and I'm not kidding when I say that my kids and friends couldn't keep up with me during the walk. We also swam quite a bit and the funny thing is that after losing almost 150 lbs I can swim for much longer distances under water now. I think that I was fighting the bouyancy of the fat before and it made even swimming harder. Incredible that even swimming is easier now!

Well, that's about it this weekend as I am going to go and see if I can catch a fish. The camp site is great as we are on a fresh water pond on one side and beautiful Cape Cod Bay on the other so my dilemma is whether to go try for a large mouth bass or a striped bass. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions...

Hope this finds you all in a great and happy place this wonderful 4th of July weekend.

Happy 4th of July,
Mike