Herbie's Journal, 12 May 2007

Day 12 of SBD and I'm down 7 pounds. I feel pretty good about that, am thinking that I'll stay in Phase 1 for a total of three weeks rather than 2. I have so much further to go! I'd be curious to hear if others have decided to stay on phase 1 longer and how it worked out.

I've been faithful to the diet so far. Only one small lapse, I let myself drink a beer the other night to celebrate our purchase of a new house. Only drank 1/2 of it though, it started to seem like the drink wasn't worth breaking the diet for! Kind of funny. The kids keep tempting me, though, with their juice and fruit and cookies and crackers and such. Today we made brownies for them and, although I didn't have any, the smell was killing me. Sigh.

Have been ok with my exercise, but not as much as I'd like. My work is very busy right now, but next week will be much better. I teach at a university and it's finals week --after this things calm down a lot and I'll be able to work out more regularly. I have been doing taekwondo, which is good, but it's hit or miss whether the classes will be good workouts.

It's exciting to see progress on my weight!

163.0 lb Lost so far: 7.0 lb.    Still to go: 23.0 lb.    Diet followed reasonably well.