Jonathan Walsh's Journal, 29 June 2015

Starting Weight = 476 pounds
Week #22 Closing = 369 pounds

Numbers Update:
107 pounds banished
22.48% of body weight banished
BMI down 13.5 points to 52.9 points

154 days no soda
5 days no alcohol
1 day not exceeding calories

Well, I'm back from vacation. Tried to eat a lot, just to freak out for a week. But I ended up with food poison & spent two days incapacitated & unable to eat. I did drink five beers; first alcohol I had in over 150 days.

Hope all is going well for everybody. Trying to catch up on reading all your posts still. "Houseguests" are still doing fine. Still working on resolving my other problem, but it's progressing.

Down a few pounds in spite of legs being a little swollen with from all the long distance driving over the past 10 days.

I feel like have let a lot of you down with my absence & hopefully I can make it up. Just had to take some time to fend off some storms. My lesson learned would be that happiness does not come by the absence of hardship, but in learning to successfully navigate them. I'm still working on that, but I know that is the lesson I must take away from the experience.

I have to get back in BEAST MODE, which will probably be next week since my mom is coming in to visit this week.

I have missed you all & hope to be a better team member going forward.

369.0 lb Lost so far: 105.0 lb.    Still to go: 169.0 lb.    Diet followed reasonably well.