So I'm down 25 lbs so far. My bathroom scale put me at 355 this morning but I'll have to wait to weigh myself at work to know for sure. I use dialysis scales at the local hospitals since they have to be accurate since they are medical grade and my $40 Sam's Club one isn't. :) Since I do weight myself in full EMS uniform I allow 8lbs for my uniform, steel-toe boots, and misc crap that I always carry with me. It's too tempting to weight myself every day but I have to resist that.

Over these 20 days I've been doing this so far I've had some days that have been dead easy and some that I've had to claw through hour by hour. I know one thing that has been helping and I know will lead to this being a permanent success is I'm changing how I'm thinking.

I'm using positive affirmations and keeping things in the present tense. "I am losing weight" not "I need to lose weight" or other things like that. I keep telling myself that I'm doing good and I need to stay the course and I will achieve my goal. Plus I'm also visualizing myself at my goal weight. I'm seeing myself buyng and wearing smaller clothes. I'm seeing that the clothes I have now are falling off me because they are too big. I'm seeing the reactions of my family when I see them again in 5 months. All these things I'm vizualizing in my head clearly and with as much detail as I can. I also tell myself that the body I have now is no longer the body I have inside and that it's no longer a reflection of who I am.

Diet and excercise will take the weight off....but rewiring/reprogramming your mind will keep it off.