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Pursuing Lightness

I recently weighed myself after a rather long time. It was not encouraging.

I weighed more than I ever have. 279.7 lbs to be exact.

I was shocked, but at the same time knowing. I had let myself go. This prompted me to start to take my health more seriously. I need to change my eating and exercising habits if I want to live long to enjoy my family and serve the Lord. I have gone through this before, but not at this amount of weight. I knew I needed to set a goal and stick to it. I re-installed my "Lose It!" Android app and began to count my calories for each meal. I set my target weight at 185 lbs and told the app to forecast my caloric intake for 2 lost pounds each week. That was a week ago. As of this morning I have lost 9.5 pounds just by watching my diet and trying to walk more.

I now weigh 270.2 lbs.

Onward... to a lighter me.
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