Been a while... update ... 9 weeks and almost 2 days til the Spartan Sprint...

I started this blog after I had a hard time walking to my parents house the summer my oldest and I were going to get fit before she started high school.  Its sad that I think that I lost vision of my weight loss goal... about 6 months later, I was in a new job and was getting these horrible stabbing headaches.  I went to the ER and my follow up appointment, my doctor suspected I had Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.  He sent me out for tests and an ultra sound and towards the end of November, I got a call from my doctor who told me that he was sorry, I did have the disease and there was nothing he could do for  me.  He told me that I had had it for some time and it is what caused some of the other health issues I have.  He told me my only hope was to lose weight.  The sad thing is he really didn't have any direction to send me in but did say that Atkins had worked for him.

Wow... it felt like he was giving me my death sentence.  I wasn't ready to give up.  I started losing weight.  My highest was 310 and today I sit at 234.  I have lost 76 pounds.  I got down to 80 pounds, but this has been a rough week with being sick and all the snow.  Below is my progression from 310 down to 234.  I am only about half way, I still want to lose another 89 to 109 pounds, but this is my progression (of my face) thus far...

About  weeks ago, I made a pact with a friend we were going to run the Spartan Races in May...we had 12 weeks to prepare.  This has been my goal.  I wanted to see how much progress I could pack into 12 weeks.  I had gotten back up t o 248.8 pounds and am at 234.2 so I am down 14 pounds since the beginning of our challenge.  How much more can I pack into the next 9 weeks and 3 days?

I figure this is a great way to journal my experience...