Inching Closer

Don't know what the caption on the card says, hope it is safe to read if you care to!

Christmas Eve weigh-in: 231.6, 53.4, 18.7%

Packages on their way to Mom and Dad directly from Amazon.
E and M, M and S should already have theirs.

Today is my last day of work until January 5th.

Everyone be safe.

Almost there

Sunday morning weigh in - 233.8 , 51.2 lbs, 18%
4 1/2 lbs to go.

Damn Near 50

Thursday weigh in 235.2
49.8 lbs, 17.47% , less than 6 lbs to go.

Last final taken yesterday, on Christmas Break from school until Mid-January!

Still need lists from OKC Wades.

This could be over in a week, the Brill R&D Christmas party we are hosting Saturday may delay things.

Closing in on 50 faster than Laura

236.8 this morning.

Check out Benjamin's new blog, Dreaming on Two Feet
Where are Dylan and Hannah?

It was worth it

Ate like there was no tomorrow.
Drank like a sailor (maybe just a sailor in training).

239.6
45.4 lbs
15.92982%



Now back to....

Today

I am thankful for:

My beautiful wife
Our children, who are growing up and getting themselves prepared to move out one day....
3 wieners
A steady, but stressful job. Glad to have one.
A warm house to come home to
A loving family
A blogging family
My morning weigh-in: 236.4, 48.6 lbs, 17%

Phones, cell phones, and computers to make up some for being miles away

The 39 years we experienced the joy of knowing and loving Anne

Have a good Thanksgiving.
We will be thinking of you all and hopefully talking to you sometime today.

Number Like K-State Gives Up Weekly

239.2

Lost 45.8 lbs, 16%

9.775 lbs to go, guess it won't be before turkey.

for the graph

241.2 lbs this morning.

230's in a couple of days

goal by day after Thanksgiving?

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-world-europe/20081111/EU.Britain.Fighting.Fat/

Low Carb Soda

My Fat Butt

Is getting smaller, which will make it easier to chain to a log.

242 this morning. Aiming for the 230's by Monday.

Have a good weekend.

Oklahoma have any good assistants they can send to Manhattan?

The Hare

244.2

No progress in 2 months.

Let's get serious before Thanksgiving.

For the Graph

244.8

3 weeks of not watching what I was eating.
Wendy's, McDonalds, being polite and polishing off all the food brought to the family.

Back at it this week. Must not have had as much as I thought.

Thanks for all the support through Lee's last 2 weeks and what lies ahead for all of us. Scott still having a rough time, has gone back to bowling leagues.

Pizza, Subs, Cake, Apples, Pears, Biscuits, Sandwiches with bread

243.6

Hell if I know.

Progress

Morning weigh in 244.8

Breakfast: 2 Oscar Mayer beef franks,sausage patties, bacon.
Lunch: Corned Beef, lettuce, tomato, tossed the bread.
Supper: Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Poppers - YUMMMM, Split Chicken Breast (all on the green egg), 1/2 a Carb Smart Ice Cream Bar.

Momentum

20 minutes Sunday
20 minutes Tuesday
30 minutes Wednesday with 5-lb weights in each hand.

247.0 This morning.

Did not even break the diet on weigh-in day like last time.

Long Time No Post

Tuesday morning weigh-in : 248.4
Loss to date: 36.6 lbs, 12.8%

Sunday:
Breakfast: don't remember
Lunch: Bratwurst, hamburger patties, 2 Coors Lights.
Dinner: Smoked Turkey
20 minutes on the treadmill, water.

Monday;
Breakfast: 4 slices of bologna
Lunch: Smoked Turkey
Dinner: Bone-in ribeye, broccoli, 2 Miller Lites
30 minute walk through the neighborhood, water.

This walking thing may catch on.

Scale Trouble Here Too

Cannot break 250. Don't know about those 3-4 lb swings. Drinking lots of water to see if that helps. Kim not allowed to move the scale to mop the bathroom floor anymore. Hope Daniel does not dress the same for at-home and school clinic weigh-ins.

Breakfast: Breakfast burritos with lo-carb tortillas, egg, bacon, cheese, salsa.
Lunch: Breakfast was too late to have lunch.
Supper: Pork shoulder (10 hour cook on the Green Egg), cole slaw, pineapple upside down cake for Dixie's birthday.

I'll weigh in tomorrow for the graph.....

Get well oldest sister!!!

3-day Weekend

Bill and Dixie coming in today for the week. Taking Monday as a vacation day.
No amazing turtle stories to share.

Friday:
Breakfast - Inside of a SEC biscuit (rumored to be better than a Big-12 biscuit), coffee. Good production run of WM frosting.
Lunch - Lemon Pepper wings, un-sweetened tea, call for salesperson for WM saying that the stores she checked in Wichita are happy with their frosting and glad we are working on fixing problems.
Afternoon snack - Coffee, call from McD's saying 40 containers of Cinnamon Melts in Japan are released, all 200,000 lbs of icing already made is usable.
Happy Hour - Blue Moon
Supper - Longhorn Steakhouse with Kim. Filet w/ melted bleu cheese, salad, a few bites of bread, Blue Moon.

Saturday weigh-in : 250.0

for the graph

250.0 this morning. 35 lbs, 12.3%

Breakfast: Stress over large retail chain frosting issues. Coffee.
Lunch: Stress over 40 freight containers of dessert for large international hamburger chain held up in Japanese customs due to supposed high potassium sorbate levels. Coffee.
Supper: Chicken breast, hamburger patty, leftover Chicken Parmesan, salad. Not coffee.

Got to get better at the "healthy" theme of this endeavor.

Highlighters Spotted Atop Stone Mountain

Stone Mountain

Some of what K, E, and R did on their summer vacation.

Weight loss has stalled. Do not use a photo album but the memory stick must have been eraseed.... Yardwork today to get my body used to the idea of exercise.

sdwade 33

Weighed in at 252 this morning. Those chicken salad tacos must be fat burners.(picture borrowed, but those look good too)

Glad Karen and co. made it home safely. Nice that they were able to stay for a while.

The Beer That Made Milt Famy Walk Us

In Milwaukee for a couple of days. Big series between the Cubs and Brewers, reckon it will be on TV, doubt there will be tickets available.

Weighed in at 253.6 yesterday morning. (31.4 , 11%)

Breakfast: Sausage patties, low carb smoothie.
Lunch: Chef Salad, Fresca
Supper: Wings, Coors light

Temptation for burgers, fries, pizza, etc. usually hits me on the road.
Have not had a fry in over 3 months.

Have a good week and good weighing.

http://www.realnothings.com/famous%20jokes/miltfamyjoke.htm

Karen Likes My Scale

158.4 for Karen in Georgia. Either it is Steve's scale or less gravitational pull down here. Steve has added a couple sticks of butter....

120 sticks of Butter

Weighed in this morning at 254.6 (ODSTVRTVRSTVIT)

Looking forward to K and company arriving tonight, staying until Saturday morning.

Big plans for Stone Mountain Park, Laser Show, lots of good food.
Kim baked a cake for Karen....

Need to see more lumps of coal and shallow footprints!!!!!

Still 256.6

Still 1.6 from halfway there. Daniel proudly has the only 2 Google search results for 'taintmeal'.
Need to know what kind of wine and cereal to get for later this week. Merlot and Fruity Pebbles?

Mackerel Jack Platter

Sunday Night:

Fried Scallops
Fried Flounder
Fried Oysters
Fried Shrimp
(Would have been an upcharge for grilled...)

Steamed Veggies (instead of french fries)
Coleslaw
2 Miller Lites ($2 each on special)

Monday Morning: Sausage, Egg , and Cheese McMuffin minus the top half of the muffin.

Monday exercise: 3 hours swimming in the Atlantic. Several splotches of sunburn point out the great value of sunscreen on the rest of me.

Monday Late Lunch: KFC, no skin, no breading. A little coleslaw. Couple of beers.

Monday supper: Just got in from the airport, had a Diet Dew, looking for a small snack before bed.

Unofficial weigh in upon reunion with scale <260
Official Tuesday morning weigh-in will be posted on... Tuesday.
Atlanta is hoping to one day land an NBA franchise.
Our new WNBA team set a record for most losses (14)to begin a season/existence/career of a head coach.

Consecutive consonants, with a weight loss theme:

In Slovak, ODSTVRTVRSTVIT has 11 consecutive consonants. It means "to remove a quarter of a layer."

The Georgian word GVBRDGVNIT ("you tear us into pieces") has 8 consecutive consonants.

Ribs and FRIED Okra

Survived the Fried Okra and still down to 156.4.

Off to Wilmington, NC tonight to visit with Kim's brother Randy and kids. Bill and Dixie driving down from Columbus. Fly back Monday night. See what kind of coastal diet seafood awaits....

Getting everything ready for Kale, Chickpeas, and surprises for next Friday!!!

kale and chickpea soup

Gourmet | November 2004

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Active time: 20 min Start to finish: 45 min

Servings: Makes 6 main-course or 8 first-course servings.

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Ingredients

1 medium onion, chopped (1 cup)
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 Turkish or 1/2 California bay leaf
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 large boiling potato(3/4 lb), peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
3/4 lb kale, stems and center ribs cut out and discarded, then leaves very finely chopped in a food processor (4 cups)
3 1/2 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth (28 fl oz)
2 cups water
1 (14-oz) can chickpeas, rinsed and drained
1/4 lb Spanish chorizo (cured spiced pork sausage), casing discarded and sausage cut into 1/4-inch dice (1 cup)

Preparation

Cook onion, garlic, bay leaf, salt, and pepper in oil in a wide 4- to 6-quart heavy pot over moderate heat, stirring frequently, until onion and garlic are softened and beginning to brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Add potato, kale, broth, and water and cook, partially covered, until potatoes are tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Reduce heat to low, then add chickpeas and chorizo and gently simmer, uncovered, 3 minutes. Discard bay leaf and season with salt and pepper.

1.6 from half-way there

Weighed in at 256.6 this morning.

Breakfast: Smoothie and Hebrew Nationals with mustard
Lunch: Mrs Winners Fried Chicken (3 wings and a breast) skin and breading carefully removed, 1/4 of a biscuit
Supper: Grilled pork loin, steamed brocolli, CarbSmart ice cream bar.

Got Kale, Chickpeas, etc. on the menu for Friday when Karen, Ellen, Rosie, and company are here!!

Need one of Daniel's Magic Scales

Weighed in this morning at 258.8, have only dropped my "pizza weight" and a little.

Figured my work and travel this week would have stressed 5-6 lbs off at least.

Spent a good part of the week fighting fires on production of the icing for McDonald's Cinnamon Melts. Trying to figure out if we have an ingredient problem, operator error, too picky of a customer, or a "too damn hot in the plants" problem.

Finished my week with a 13-hour Wednesday (Smoothie and Hebrew National breakfast, cold cuts for lunch, and Italian sausage w/ pasta sauce for supper). Continued working in my dreams, woke up at 3, chose a couple more hours of sleep over just going into work.

Thursday- Went in a 7, meetings all day, finished up with a 2 hour 42 minute conference call, made reservations to fly to Utah the next morning, left work at 8:45, home by 9:30. Don't remember breakfast, cold cuts and cold veggies with ranch dip for lunch, supper - passed on pizza, had salad topped with egg salad instead.

Next 4 phrases spoken to Kim; I'm home. Goodnight. Good morning. Goodbye..... (all with "I love you" of course)

Friday - Up at 3:30, flight at 6:30, stopped in Denver (had the inside of a sausage,egg, and cheese biscuit), then on to Salt Lake. Made it to the plant by 11, lunch at noon with our quality manager and the customer (Cobb salad and coffeeeee). Went back to the plant, on the line until 9:30, off to Chili's for a 1/2 rack of ribs, small sirloin, salad, and a tall Coors light. Plane delayed from 11:45 PM to 12:15 AM. Got upgraded to first class, asleep before we took off, woke up in our final descent. Talked to Tucker plant (running same product) while driving home from airport, got another 3hrs of shut-eye. Breakfast - pass. Lunch - 2 double cheeseburgers, bottom bun only, Diet Coke. Afternoon snack - 3 Miller Lites at the pool. Snack while grilling - Another beer, mixed nuts til Kim took them away from me. Supper - T-bone, salad. Watched about the first 3 laps of the NASCAR race and was out until 7 this morning.

Impressed with everyone else's progress. Daniel - just toss the old scale or are you wanting to see if it says 299 when you are down to 230? When is Holly going to go "official"?

25 steps forward and 2 steps back...

Kim and I went downtown and met Kristy last night for supper....

Other sins of the weekend:

Payday bar, handful of Starburst jelly beans, a couple bottles of Guinness, hot dogs on buns, Lay's potato chips. (Not all in the same sitting)

Back on it today. Working with Kim's brother Pat on extending the bottom deck a few feet on my "vacation day". Will count as my exercise for the day.

Wade Weigh-In #1

Good Braves game last night. Got to see a win, a kid hit an RBI triple in his first major league at bat, and some impressive fireworks. Salad, bunless burger, and Coke Zero for supper before the game. Peanuts and a couple of Miller Lites at the game.
Official July 5th weight ............................259.8

25.2 lbs 8.84%

Last hole on my fat belts. Almost fit in my 38W pants, no longer stretching the limits of my 40" expandable waistband pants.

Watching chocolate being made on 'How Its Made'.

Just watched Hot Dogs on 'How Its Made", suggest that you do not....

Mandy, Chip, and Trudy might not like having rats as cousins.....

Milestones

If you really feel like blowing the contest off...



Recent significant milestones in Steve's little world.

• Last Saturday was the 20th Anniversary of my start date with Brill.
• This Saturday will mark the 1 year anniversary of the last time I smoked a cigaratte/cigar.
• Friday is Mandy's 10th Birthday
• Friday will hopefully be the day the scale reads 260.0 for the second consecutive day giving me a loss of 25lbs (8.77%) in Round 1
• Saturday will be the day that I treat my self to one or more of the items that I have dearly missed in the last 7 weeks (Pizza, pasta, french fries, doritos, sweet potatoes, sausage/egg/cheese biscuit, Filet-O-Fish, skittles, peanut M&Ms) or maybe not....

2 days on the road

Different foods call my name when travelling. Sort of like camping. I ignored most of the calls. We,ll see tonight. 2 days without a scale.... 261 after yardwork Saturday, 263 after supper...

Progress

Me 262, how about y'all?

Chicken Parmesan

http://www.classico.com/flavors/product_details.aspx?pid=27


Chicken - VERY LIGHTLY breaded, this sauce, and cheeeeeze.

Still hanging around 264 +/-
Had more than my allotment of 2 Miller Lites on Saturday... Should have had a Dunkin Donuts Fritter (with my glaze formula on it).

The Spicy Red Pepper and the Cabernet Marinera with Herbs quite tasty too. Slow cooked Italian sausage in the crock pot.......

3g carb dessert




Today's contribution to society - 12,000 lbs of Wal Mart Buttercreme Icing - ZERO grams Trans Fat per serving.

Big Twenty

100 lbs of Donuts and Apple Fritters

Spent my day frying donuts for the Board of Directors of our mother company and testing donut glaze for Dunkin' Donuts.

Made over 100 lbs of mix, cut and fried yeast raised rings and apple fritters.

Total number eaten ..... ZERO. After work weight (without washing off at least a pound of frying shortening from my skin and hair) 266.

Breakfast - 60 calorie low carb yogurt, coffee.

Lunch - Cold cuts, makeshift salad out of cold cut accessories.

Supper - My next task. Ribeye, medium rare, salad.

I GET MY ICE CREAM BAR TONIGHT, KAREN!

Good Eats.

Saturday night - Memphis dry-rub baby back ribs, double broccoli, salad. (Think the salt messed up my weigh-in)

Sunday morning - Coffee
Sunday lunch/dinner for Father's' day - Beer-can chicken with rosemary, basil, onion, salt and pepper, acorn squash steamed on the grill with butter, onions, and jalapenos. Father's day Ice Cream Bar. I think the 4 1/2 beers the chicken did not get messed up my weigh in.

Monday breakfast - 60 calorie smoothie, coffee.
Monday lunch - Buffalo chicken (grilled) salad. Unsweetened ice tea.
Monday supper - Alambre, no tortilla, no rice, no beans. Just good old steak, bacon, onions, poblanos, and cheeeeeze. Ice water.

Will wait till morning to weigh in. Hoping for 265 (20 lbs)

Mom is scaring me with her 11 lbs. Where did she start out?

More Yummy Low carb goodies

One of the smoothies for breakfast before my on the way to work coffee every day. No oatmeal, no raisins.

Karen and I both had spinach salad with grilled chicken for lunch yesterday.

Supper was a HUGE T-bone cooked on the Big Green Egg. Rest of Kim's T-bone sliced for salad for supper tonight.

Inside of a couple of Panera sandwiches for lunch today.

When the weight is down each day, I get a CarbSmart Ice Cream Bar.

After shower weight this morning: 267 (18 lbs, 6.3%) 1/3 of the way there.

Karen - Speaking of Sonic, about 4 corn dogs and onion rings would be pretty yummy about now.

Breyer's Ice Cream Bars

Karen - you should try these.

Hope all the Wades ate well this weekend in OKC.

Still looking for a recent weigh in result for mom!

Still bouncing between 270 and 272. Big steps this week though.

I wish I were an.....

Oscar Mayer Wiener - 4 for Breakfast with Horseradish Mustard
Lunch - 4 pieces of baked chicken, Coke Zero
Supper - 4 bratwurst, sauerkraut, Diet Mountain Dew
Dessert - CarbSmart Ice Cream bar - only one today

After shower weight - 272.2

No stairs where I work.

First Try

In on the blogging thing. Down 12 lbs (4.2%) after 9 days.
Salad, salad, salad.