Lee's Weight Loss

It's been 4 weeks since Lee was told that he had to get his waist down to under 40inches (he was at 44.5) and he had to drop 30 pounds (he was at 245). Well, here we are, a month later, and YAY! Lee's made his goal of losing 10 pounds in April! :D He probably could've lost more, if he went balls out, but we didn't want to completely shock his system. Our biggest changes have been no more fast food during the week, just once during the weekend. Also, a big change!, no more drinking beer during the week. Dude, that was getting outta hand anyways! We needed a reason to cut back on the beer. At 110calories per beer, and Lee can easily put away 12 beers in a night, that's 1320 calories, just in BEER! (As opposed to wine, which in 1 bottle, there's only 550 calories.) I also stepped up and started becoming a bit of a food nazi. LOL Seriously, I was tossing out chips and white bread and frozen breakfast sandwiches and cheese in a can, all that crap that Lee would snack on. To replace it, I started buying fish and ground turkey, 90cal granola bars, 100cal bags of popcorn, nuts, beef jerky, cheese (but the good cheese! Edam and Emmental and Fontina) and crackers, loads of broccoli and red potatoes, plus bags of salad. Now, I cook a fresh healthy lunch every day which I always keep below 500 calories. I actually try to keep it in the 300cal range, if I can. Dinner, I rarely make it more than 600. But once in a while, I do splurge a bit and the calories may go up to 800-900. I logged Lee's meals for an entire month, just so I could wrap my head around how many calories go into what. Now it's second nature to do the math in my head and let him know how many calories his meals are. He got to around 1500 calories per day, but that was w/o the beer! But he did cut back his drinking to just on Fri and Sat nights. No more mid-week drinking beers!

He's been really good about working out, too. If he can't make it to the gym, then we do a workout DVD here at home, or he hops on the elliptical for 30mins.

For the next month, we're cutting out fast food completely, cutting out beer completely. He's also going to step up his workout regimen to running 5x a week and doing weights 3x a week.

I have complete faith that he'll drop the unwanted pounds and get back on track with the USAF's fitness regulations. :)