Update time

Hello friends and readers!  First let me apologize for not writing in so long.  A few years ago, my mother, father, and I were in a car accident.  Dad and I walked away uninjured, but the impact and the airbag deployment left my mom beat up for life.  She ended up needed brain and neck surgery from it.  She has chronic pain, and yet she is still trying to run a household without much help from the others living there.  She takes care of her granddaughter, her four dogs, cooks, cleans, and maintains the yard on her own.  Because of that her pain is getting worse.  She had a very large project getting the house ready for one of my little brothers twenty-sixth birthday parties that he will be having next weekend, so I went to lend a hand.

While I was there, I began to have pretty severe pain in my mouth and it was spreading down into my jaw.  I had lost a filling out of a tooth last year, and without dental insurance, I let it go, didn't go in and get a new one.  I finally had enough and went over to the dentist last Wednesday and because I am out of work and don't have dental coverage, they ended up pulling it.  I was prescribed Vicodin, and because of past experience with that particular drug and over prescription while I was in the Marines, I decided to hang out a little longer at Mom's and asked her to dispense the drugs so I didn't over do it.

I am home now, and while I slacked off on the exercise while I was down with the post-op pain, I picked it back up as soon as I got home.  To make up for lost time, and because my grandmother asked me to bring her a newspaper, I upped my normal mile and a half to two miles.  I am still at a fifteen minute mile, but more and more of it is jogging and not walking.  Every time I set foot outside that door, I make some slight improvement to my routine.

Since my weigh-in at the beginning when I weighed two hundred and forty-seven pounds I have lost a total of six pounds by eating right and walking every day.  While I am still obese at five foot six two hundred forty one pounds, I am already noticing a difference.  I have been getting better sleep since I became active again and I have less chronic pain.  By spreading my meals out and eating breakfast and a few healthy snacks everyday, my stomach is no longer the bottomless pit it used to be begging for twenty chicken nuggets or two whoppers or an entire large pizza in a sitting.

That is where I am at right now, two weeks into my weight loss adventure and still going strong.  Stay tuned, as the weight drops, the confidence increases and I may take more pictures!