The big news is that I am down just over 20 pounds in the last 7 weeks! It's been pretty easy following the Medifast diet. Obviously I've been too busy to plan meals and do a lot of cooking, weighing and measuring, and frankly, that's where I get into a lot of trouble. I mean when you are hungry and trying to prepare a meal, it's almost impossible to avoid nibbling. On the Medifast diet, you eat 6 times a day and 5 of those meals are already prepackaged, portion controlled meals that are scientifically formulated to have all the nutrients you need to maintain a busy active lifestyle. There's very little preparation involved, and the 6th meal is very simple too. Just lean protein and lots of green vegetables.
I think that if I can follow this diet under the challenging circumstances I'm facing, just about anyone can follow it. I started the diet on the first day we arrived in rural Missouri. The home we purchased for cash, because I hate banks and didn't want to pay rent or have a mortgage, was not in very good shape. We knew it would need work, and, not surprisingly, it needed much more work than we expected. We stayed at my brother-in-law Bill's home on an off for almost two weeks while we dealt with removing trash, fixing plumbing, renovating the bathroom, fixing the septic and other challenging home improvement issues. We also gutted two walls down to the studs and are completely renovating a room for our office, and a storage area. We plan to do all the siding like what is shown in the second picture and we think when we are done it will be very nice, but it won't be completed until sometime next year. It's good enough to live in now though, and the location is beautiful.
We are up on a hill with a beautiful view of the bottom land where the Missouri River used to flow before it changed course.(The top picture is less than half way up the hill and just to the right of our house) We have wonderful neighbors, like the Burgess's, who bring us the occasional over sized fresh cantaloupe or helped us save our propane tank when moles destabilized the ground it was sitting on and it went rolling down onto our front porch. Gary used his over sized bobcat and pulled it up the hill and moved it down to the front yard for us. (It seems like everything is over sized here!) We are also surrounded by tons of history that will be fun to research.
Now that we are settled in, and I have started my new school bus job, I expect to begin to exercise more so I can continue this great progress on my weight loss journey. Climbing the hill behind my house a couple of times a day will be just one easy way to do that. Next time I check in, I expect to post some pictures that will show noticeable results from my weight loss efforts.
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