Back down to 160

Well, it felt nice stepping on the scale this morning. I had weighted 186 not long after moving to Columbus from Omaha four years ago. I remember awaking one morning, hopping into the shower and when I got out and saw myself in the mirror, I was not pleased. On that very day, I decided to make some serious changes in my life. I lost 26 lbs. and was fairly happy being at 160 for my 10-year high school reunion just a year later. Just after I got back home, though, an illness struck me and I was sick for close to two years. Due to this, I couldn't do much of anything, let alone work out. Fortunately, I kept my eating/drinking habits in tact and only added about 5 lbs. to my weight in those two years to up myself to 165 (net -21). Once I began feeling better in late-December of 2010, a new energy struck me and I went on to lose another 24 lbs. - decreasing my weight to 141, a total loss of 45 lbs. Of course, not long after that, I had my gallbladder removed and it took a great deal more time than I had anticipated to fully recover and get back into a decent workout routine. Some people had told me I was getting to be too skinny as it was, so I would have been okay with a little bit of a weight gain, but not too much. A couple months ago, I stepped on the scale and to my amazement, it read 170. I had gained 29 of the 45 lbs. back (net -16). I couldn't believe it, so I stepped on the scale again. I placed a 10-lb. weight on there to make sure it was accurate and unfortunately, it was. Talk about a bummer. I had worked so hard to lose all that weight and a good majority of it had been placed on again. Fortunately, I didn't let it get me too down and have lost 10 lbs. since then and am back to 160 (net -26). I'm kind of back to where I started three years ago on this day and this time, I'm hoping to go about things a little differently - as opposed to doing a great deal of cardio and shedding more weight, I'm hoping to do some more P90X workouts and increase my strength. Hopefully between a solid balance of that and the cardio/walks, I can get to looking as I've wanted to for a long time now to start this summer. In any case, I'm starting to feel good again.