Day 16: Motivation

First up - stats.  Weigh in done on Day 14, and a nice solid 7.8 pounds for week two with a total so far of 27.7 pounds!  Considering I wanted to lose 60-70 pounds in the entire six months I'm starting to feel pretty good about the numeric loss.  Which is good.  Very good.

Why? In 60 days I get to do my least favorite thing in the entire world.  That's right, I get to ride on an airplane.

This time I opted to give Frontier Airlines a shot due to schedule, and the fact that I can pay 15 bucks and get 5 glorious more inches of legroom.  But look at that poor fella's hips.  Yeah.  My ass is still a bit on the "mucho grande" size, and I'm hoping it still bleeds off over the coming two months.  I've flown a lot, and while I've not yet had a Kevin Smith incident, I don't plan to start now.  Enough said.

Over the past 5 days since I've updated things have continued to smooth out and become more and more routine. I won't use "easy", nor will anyone who has strictly adhered to Optifast will but I do don't intend anything other than a complete life change and reset.  Such isn't possible with compromise, mostly.  Aside from Optifast, water, and black coffee the only other substances to enter my body have been: (2) 8oz Diet 7ups, (1) 16oz Diet Pepsi, and Mrs Dash (makes the Optifast soup mucho grande).  That's all, in 16 days.

Even coffee I'm slowly dropping off.  I'm down to a single mug a day, and frankly I'm pretty sure I don't even "need" that.  I should probably drop it, but I'll keep tapering for now.  Next week I plan to try a single styrofoam cup per day.  We'll see what happens and the such.

Now for the good news!  This week I'm cleared to ride... my spin bike.. for two 30 minute sessions :).  Due to the low total amount of calories my body is consuming (960 total per day) the clinic has dictated very clearly that I need to start slow to avoid disaster.  I'll listen.

What an odd strange trip this has been so far, but a good trip.