Well here I am finally. I had to miss everything last week because I was travelling to Chicago for work. It was cool though because my family went with me. It wasn't cool because I LOVE Chicago style pizza, and my favorite restaurant (Chipotle's) is right down the street. I did my best though. I kept myself to 2 pieces of pizza and when I did order a borrito I didn't order a lot of the fattening stuff, and no shell.

One of the hardest things for me during this whole program has been giving up pop. But I have noticed now that I am not drinking pop, I sleep better at night. I don't snore as much and I am a lot less jittery.

I have found that I am looking at the labels on food a lot closer. Checking out the calories and calculating how much extra time it will take on the bike to work that off.

One thing that I have found helpful is that I am reading Dr. Phil's book on weight loss. I know some people don't like him but he has some good things to say. Mainly that the reason that I am fat is because I eat too much. I know it is a novel idea, but it is true. It is no one's fault but mine. I have discovered that I am an emotional eater, I eat when I am stressed, bored, upset, and any other time I don't want to deal with things. So I have been trying to figure out more positive ways to deal with things that are going on around me. The first weekend that I started in the program my wife was out of town so I was home alone with our 3 year old. That was pretty stressful. But I tried to play with him as much as possible and we got outside as much as we could.

Speaking of my son I have all ready reached one of my goals. When I started out I had to take a breather after walking up stairs with him. Last night I ran up the stairs with him and didn't need to stop before reading him a bedtime story. I am not ready to run Grandma's marathon yet but one of my goals is to run the 5K with my wife this summer.

Well that is it for now. I'll write more after my first official weigh in tomorrow. On the scale at the clinic I work at I have lost 15.3 pounds since the first weigh in. So we will see where I am at tomorrow.