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A day of errands

With lots of things on our list for the day I never made it to the gym or the hospital to weigh in. First stop, breakfast at one of our favorite haunts Raymonds where we "1/2-ed" our breakfast. We shared scrambled eggs, home fries, bacon and toast. I had coffee with milk and sugar.

From there we had various errands to run. In our travels we picked up some pansy's, something Kim has wanted for years but we always seem to miss getting them when they're around. This year we got'em and planting them proved to be the only real exercise I got for the day as I antiqued some new pots we got with a combination of old paint and rolling the pots in the dirt. Cleaning up a little and shoveling dirt for the pots completed my tasks.

Lunch was leftovers at home, some penne with tomato sauce and sauteed chicken. After lunch we were off to NYC to get some paper for a project and on the way out dinner was quick and easy. Falafels at Mamouns, and we each had one of their little desserts. 2 falafels, 2 desserts, 2 drinks, $7, now how do you beat that in NYC.

We had sneak preview tickets to see "The Hoax" back in New Jersey at 7:30 so we high talied it home. I wasn't hungry but I wanted popcorn so Kim and I split a small bag, and when they say small, they mean small. The movie was pretty good and when it was over I checked Kim's pulse to see if she felt like eating again. She was and as we thought of places to go we ended up deciding to just go home and have a snack before bed instead of eating out. I chose a bowl of Kashi with soy.

Keep on tracking...

I'm really pleased that I tracked everything I did yesterday as even though it takes time, just knowing that you're going to record what you're "eating + thinking" really helps you stay aware of what you're putting in your mouth.

I didn't get the gym this morning as I needed to spend my morning working on my next book, "The Tale Of The Scale" which ever since my scale became posessed and it got relegated to the garage my writing has gotten stronger.

"1/2-ing" My Talk

I am so excited to have awakened to discover that my scale has really been screwing around with my head, and therefore my actions/outcome, that I burned 1116 calories traveling 2.55 miles doing treadmill inclline training at the gym this morning.

And to build on what I'm doing at the gym to keep things cranking in getting my physical weight in alignment with my mental weight my heads really back into the idea of "1/2-ing" again.

You see a while ago Kim and I wrote an ebook that I really believe in as we've seen it work first hand, but as with all things, if it's easy to do [and it is], it's just as easy not to do.

The book is titled "1/2 is more" and in simple terms the common thread throughout the book is that it's really easy to eat 1/2 of what we normally eat and save the other "1/2" for later or in the case of eating out, it's also very easy to share meals, feel more than satisfied, and actually save not only lots of calories, but lots of cash as well.

In our family we still quite often "1/2" lots of things but I really intend to get my head back into "1/2-ing" again and record what I'm learning in the process.

"1/2-ing My Talk" for breakfast

I had my usual Starbucks "1/2 caf" with Silk Soy and one of their multigrain bagels with Philly cream cheese. "1/2 now..., the other "1/2 later...

I had the other "1/2" before lunch.

For lunch I didn't have "1/2" but I had a nice grilled chicken ceasar salad with a diet rasberry Snapple.

Usually when I'm on the road in the afternoon more times than not I get a snack urge, but today even though the thought crossed my mind a few times I passed.

The kids weren't going to be home so Kim and I decided to get some dinner out. We ended up going to Bangkok Kitchen which we really like. Kim was up for "1/2ing" So for only $37 we "1/2-ed" quite a few tasty treats.. chicken coconut soup, chicken satay, a salad, an order of pad thai and mango sticky rice. Lots of small plates, very tasty and very affordable, oh, and I forgot we had jasmine tea with that.

And GONE it is!

I guess after 20+ years of "weighing in" I killed my scale.

So here is it's final resting place until it comes with me on my eventual cross-country "The Tale Of The Scale" book tour. That's the title for the new book I'm writing and honestly, I had no idea how prophetic the title and the connection of my actual scale would play into all of this.

Now I'm not going to blame my past two year weight loss limbo on my scale, as all weight loss success always comes right back to ourselves, but yesterday's "weigh in AHA" does shed a lot of light on why many times I would be so over-joyed one day at the great progress I was making in dropping "LBS" and then for what seemed like for no good reason the scale would be up 5, 10 15LBS in just a few days.

I had always figured that because of my size that kind of weight flunctuation could occur, and I'm sure it does, but I have to admit it really is a relief to know that I've gotten rid of something that obviously has been messing with my head for quite some time.

These seemingly unexplainable wild weight loss fluctuations have had so much to do with my "starting + stopping", eating poorly, trying to over compensate with erractic exercise and on and on. No excuses, but I must admit all of this new "knowing" is really a relief.

Time will tell but I feel as if a "weight has truly been lifted off of my head".

It's almost as if on Saturday when I decided to mentally lose 160LBS that day, it was as if it killed my scale. I could care less what happened to my scale, other than it happened.

I really feel that this "truth" has "set me free".

Getting rid of my 20+ year old scale will make it a lot harder to weigh myself in each morning until I find a new scale I can trust, and maybe that's a good thing as well.

Yes, the hospital is on the way to the gym but depending who's on duty they get a little cranky having someone walk in off the street to weigh in every morning.

But at least now I have a real baseline to reference as I am committed to "being a 175LBS" mentally which will cause my body to eventually catch up to that 175LB reality.

You know, now when I come to think about it, when I took off my first biggest chunk of weight 115LBS, I went pretty much in a straight line from 400LBS to 285LBS and all during that time I was weighing in in the scale at the hospital. Now I don't remember exactly what caused me to start using the scale we had at home, but I do known that it's been the only scale I've used for the past two years other than an occasional weigh in at the doctors office or a few times I've used the scale at the gym.

WOW! If I had only known... but since I really believe that things happen for a reason I have a feeling this too was meant to be a part of the ever unfolding story of mypetfat. It's all starting to make more sense why all of this is happening this "weigh".

Suggestion...you might want to really look into "what's the tale of your scale"...

My scale is possessed!

This morning I got up very "grateful" that I was starting Monday with my new, very freeing 175LB mindset.

And keeping true to my promise to do my best to record daily my "Fully Clothed" weight each morning I stepped up on the scales [gym clothes and all] thinking my scale would come up around 335LBS, ehen the strangest thing happened.

I slid the weights to 335LBS and it didn't balance, it was showing that I could slide the bar lower.

I thought that was a little strange as I didn't eat horribly over the weekend, but by no means had I been pushing myself at the gym.

I had only been to the gym on Saturday for doing a moderate 35 mins incline training on the LifeFitness treadmill at NYSC in Livingston

Saturday I only had one meal that day at Maggiano's because if you've ever tried their family style lunch special, you can't eat anything else that day. Now don't get me wrong Im not complaining, the food was great, the price was amazing, $15.50 a person all you can eat, and I didn't even stuff myself, but after we were done with lunch I was done for the day with food.

Then yesterday I took a day off from the gym, had my usual Starbucks hit and one of their bran muffins. Stopped by my friend Joan's to say hi and I had a small piece of her son Matt's birthday cake, and that was pretty much it until we went to Jack + Les's [brother + sister-in-laws, who happen to be amazing cooks] for dinner where I had Jack's famous spaghetti + meatballs, and as always they were amazing. Yes I had some of his cheesy garlic bread and two Buds, but that was it. I was full but not stuffed.

As you can see, nothing really crazy, which is why I thought it was strange that it seemed I needed to keep sliding the bar lower on my scale.

So I started to slide it from 335LBS to 330LBS, nothing, to 325LBS, nothing, 320LBS, still not balanced, it wasn't until I got near 315LBS that it started to balance out. But it didn't make sense.

Ok, yes on Saturday I proclaimed that I now weighed 175LBS, mentally, not physically. And even thought I really believe in the power of "The Law Of Attraction" I must admit I'm not sure that I or anyone else could mentally drop 20LBS in 2 days.

Now I've sen my scale act a little wacky before, and if you have an adjustable scale you know that you really have to be careful to pay attention to how you stand and move around on it because you can make it swing either "weigh" a couple "LBS",

So at first I thought it was just acting funky so I must have gotten up and down off that scale a dozen times thinking that something would readjust the scale so that it would get back closer to 335LBS. But no matter what I tried the scale wouldn't start to balance out until I got near 315LBS.

So I moved the scale.

It was driving me nuts.

I set it up from our breakfast dining room to right smack dab in the center of the kitchen, "that'll get things back inline" I thought, and what came up on the scale... 335LBS.

No 315LBS.

So now that I entered this into my blog and while my mind is still fresh I'm off to they gym with a stop at the Emergency Room where I used to weigh myself in when I was topping the scale at 400LBS and my scale couldn't record anything over 350LBS.

I just want to see what the scale says at the hospital and then I'll see what it says at the gym, because in the past the scale at home and the gym are usually pretty close, only off from each other by a "LB" or two.

As Arnold would say "I'll be Back"!

We all know that you'll weigh in differently between different scales, but I have to believe that the digital scale, whatever you weigh in at has to be pretty accurate, so "Fully Clothed" I stepped onto the hospitals Scale-Tronix digital scale and my moment of truth was revealed.

I weighed in at 342.9LBS, still 57LBS+ less than I weighed when the scale at one time topped 400LBS.

So when I got the gym I thought I'd see how close their scale was to what the hospital scale recorded my weight at. Pretty much right on the money, as I weighed in at 344LBS on their Health o meter scale.

So with that info in my head I hopped on the treadmill entered in 344LBS into their calorie calculator and in 35 mins. burned 607 calories.

Now here's "the rest of the story", when I got home, I thought I'd see if my scale had for some reason come back to it's senses.


I was right my scale was possesed, now it was showing that I weighed 305LBS.

That scale has got to go!

"Fully Clothed"

Ever since I took 160LBS off my mind yesterday I decided this morning that it would be very interesting to journal how rapidly my new THINKING would move my mental reality into my physical reality.

So starting tomorrow I'm going to start the day affirming how great it feels to weigh in each morning mentally at 175LBS while I curiously watch the scale fall inline with my new THINKING.

These"thoughtful observations" will be posted under the category I'm calling "Fully Clothed".

I've always thought "Fully Clothed" would be a great title for a book as how many times do we try to fool ourselves when we hit the scales stripping off every last vestage of clothing for some last second attempt for a favorable weight loss hit.

No more... going forward I"m weighing in "Fully Clothed".

Each morning I'll step right up to the scale "Fully Clothed", be it what I'm wearing to the gym or my business attire for the day, 'Fully Loaded"... wallet, keys, cell phone and all.

Yes, I could weigh in each day sans clothing but what does that really do other than keep me stuck in a cycle telling myself that on any given day I'm a good or a bad person because some "LBS" on a scale go either way.

No matter what we do, we all know the scale always swings both ways.

I really think that "the truth will set us free" and the first step to true weight loss, exercise and wellness success starts with an honest and realistic relationship with ourselves and our scale.

That's one of the reason's I've decided to "out" my actual "Fully Clothed" weigh in almost everyday in this blog.

Not in a shameful, trying to self motivate way as I might of in the past, but in a more "grateful" way to say that this is where I am at this point, and this is where I'm going.

Just getting this out of my head and into this journal feels empowering.

I see "being honest" with myself everyday as a powerful step to have the "truth" set me free.

So each day, no matter what the scale says I'm making a promise to myself to use these postings as a way to help me stay much more conscious in attracting the thoughts and actions that allow my body shape and size to best serve my overall wellness goals.

Yes, I will lose weight, excess body fat [mypetfat] to be more exact, but I intend to attract what I want, letting go of my old thinking that still had me attracting what I didn't want.

No matter what diet, plan or program we're on, all roads lead back to the ultimate power we give to our scales. I say we all need to take the power away from the scale and give it back to ourselves.

Imagine Losing 160LBS In 1 Day!

well that's what I did this morning, I LOST 160LBS!

How is is that even physically possible to do?

Well here's how I did it, and you can do it too.

You won't believe how exciting and empowering it is to lose that kind of weight in just 1 day.

THE 5 SIMPLE STEPS TO ACHIEVE AN AMAZING 1 DAY WEIGHT LOSS...

STEP 1
What's that "LBS" you've got in your head that is your ultimate weight loss goal.

Don't judge it, don't even think whether or not it's possible to achieve, what's your "LBS"?

STEP 2
Get your camera, a digital one is best.

STEP 3
Find an adjustable scale, the one I have is a DETECTO scale, you know the ones that are at the doctor's office, at the gym or at a hospital. The kind of scale most of us grew up with. I still have the one my parents bought me about 20 years ago, they have one too. [But that's another story for later...]

STEP 4
Now slide the scale to your "LBS", go ahead, it's ok, and just feel what it feels like to see that number on the scale. Then all you have to do is take a picture of the scale with your "LBS".

STEP 5
Now either get prints of the your "LBS" on the scale or upload a digital file to your PC and print out an enlarged copy of your "LBS". Put it on your desktop, post it around your house, at the office, any where you want to remind yourself about your "LBS".

Here's my "LBS"

I know this all may just sound like wishful thinking, but I recently was introduced to some new insights from some very reliable and credible sources to start "THINKING" this way and it's supposed to bring amazing results.

I'll share more about these very empowering new insights over the next few weeks.

Why not give it a try... what have you got to lose?

"HOW MANY LBS DO YOU WANT TO LOSE IN 1 DAY", 25, 50, 100, 200LBS+

Love to hear what you experienced when you tried this and the effect it's having on moving forward your weight loss and wellness goals. So if you're inclined to share please send me your "LBS" pics and thoughts to jay@mypetfat.com