I started out yesterday in what has become normal fashion for a week day. Get up, do my business and brush my teeth, then step on the scales. I need to correct something that I noticed. The weights I have been posting are the weights taken the day of writing, not yesterday's weight. I do this so you can see the results of the previous days actions. So this morning when I stepped on the scale…drum roll please:

Todays weight: 335.4 lbs That's 1.6 lbs this month, 14.6 lbs this year.

I got up at 5:30, ate a bowl of Cheerios with 2% milk. My wife made me a cup of coffee(no cream or sugar) while I worked on this blog. I have several blogs that I post to on a regular basis. I normally do my posting early in the morning because I don't have any distractions and if I wait until later, I find that I run out of time and it doesn't get done.

After breakfast and my daily blog posting, I hit the floor to knock out 100 crunches on the Ab Roller while watching Cada Dia (my wife's from Venezuela and that's her favorite morning program). After the crunches I go back to the computer and work on my internet marketing business until I have to leave for work at 7:30. I have a couple more cups of coffee at work and a banana for a mid morning snack.

I have just started using a meal supplement for lunch. I am not going to reveal the brand because I don't want to promote something that I am not sure of. If I am happy with the results in a few months, I will reveal the brand name. Let's just say it is a type of protein powder that you mix with water and only has 95 calories. It is vanillia flavored and is supposed to replace a meal. Yesterday was the first day I used it so the jury is still out. The powder is part of a weight loss package that I purchased which includes daily vitamins, a metabolic accelerater, and an immune system booster.

I have been taking the immune system booster for over 2 years and have not had so much as a cold during that time. I decided to try out the companies wieght loss program. If it works out for me, I will recommend it to you. I have always been leary of supplements but I do believe that taking vitamins is important, especially when you are trying to lose weight and might not consume the vitamins that you need naturally. Let's wait and see what happens before I make a recommendation. I am also experimenting with something I will call my secret weapon. I have been using this for a week and am pleased so far. All will be revealed at a later date.

Back to the journal. I ate an apple for a mid afternoon snack and then went home after work. The wife and kids talked me into going to what has become our favorite restaurant, Sweet Tomatoe, for dinner. This is an all you can eat salad bar and I made a pig of myself. You see, I wholeheartedly believe that you can still eat well when you are trying to lose weight. You just need to make sure you eat healthy. If you are smart about what you do, you will be successfull. I did do a litlle extra work to try and offset the pigfest.

When we got home I got on the bicycle, went 2 miles at a good clip and worked up a good sweat. (and worked off some of that huge meal I just ate) Then I settled in to watch a little TV with the family and knocked out 125 more crunches during commercial breaks. I do this in sets of 25 or 50. You don't have to do them all at once. Even if you can only do 5 at a time. Do 5 every commercial break. You have nothing to lose but your gut. I finshed off the evening with a 10 minute stretching session and off to bed about 10:00.