Today was my return visit with the nutritionist. I haven’t written much in the last few weeks. I have been busy with work and slightly discouraged at the fact that things have been harder this time around. My weigh in today put me at 2 pounds less than my visit last month and the past two weekly weigh-ins have showed no change from the last one I posted a dew weeks back. I haven’t stuck to the walks on a daily basis. Although I am still taking them, a few issues have made it difficult to stay with them every day. The first being the weather. The town I live in must never have heard of snow plows. When we get snow, it stays on half of the roads until it is gone. Makes me wonder why it is I pay taxes. Another issue has been my back. I have been having problems with my back for years. I finally had some X-rays last February to figure out what was going on. I always figured it was just from being a fat ass that caused the pain and once I started losing weight, it would diminish. Was I wrong. I found out that I have an issue with my lower back called Lumbar Spondylolisthesis. Here is the information from my doctor about it.

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I made my monthly trek to the nutritionist today. It wasn’t the monthly weigh in I had hoped for but I still showed a loss. I dropped two pounds since my last visit. Im not exactly sure how that is, since I lost 5 pounds on my home scale making a 3 pound difference in there somewhere. In any case today I had my Resting Metabolic Rate tested so I knew how many calories my body burns in a day just by doing nothing. If you have never had this test done. You should. It’s tons of fun. First you get to clamp your nose shut with this tight plastic clamp. I wish I had a mirror handy so I could have seen that! Then you get to sit with a small plastic machine with a mouthpiece attachment sticking out of your mouth for the next 10 minutes or so while you breath through it. I wasn’t in the best of moods today. So, I was too pissed off to be bothered by how ridiculous I might have looked and just read through some papers the doctor gave me on weight loss tips and diet suggestions while I sat and breathed. In the end it said my Resting Metabolic Rate was 2550 calories. So, if I were to do nothing every day and set my calorie target at 2000 I should see a 2 pound per week loss. Now I have something to set my mark at and all I need to do is get myself tracking calorie intake on a daily basis and I will be better off.

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A big congrats goes out to the New York Giants fans that might have read my post a few weeks ago after they beat the Cowboys. While I might still feel the Cowboys were the better team in that game. The Giants surely just proved themselves to be the Championship team with the Super Bowl win. I am dumbfounded at the fact that they were able to win the Super Bowl. But, they did. So, congrats. I will enjoy watching the Cowboys beat your asses next year….

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