This is a public diary and a public confession. Its the story of Mike Gibbons-Camp, a 30 year old legal aid attorney who on August 23, 2007 weighed in at 392.8 lbs. Thanks to the constant support of my wife, Liz, and a kick in the pants by a good friend who I hadn't talked to for a while, I finally decided that enough was enough. But instead of quietly suffering with my weight, I started my blog, "New Me?"

I did really well for 10 weeks, then it completely fell apart. I was in denial for a long time, thinking I was just slipping up a bit, making a mistake here or there. But the reality was that I had failed.

Since then i've tried just about everything I could to get back on the wagon. And i've done well for a week here, a week there, but nothing lasting. So I don't know what to tell a new reader to my blog, but "welcome, and wish me luck."

Friday, August 24, 2007

first test passed

So I passed my first serious test today. We had a three hour meeting this morning at work, and my boss brought doughnuts, monkey bread, and baby carrots.


And I had baby carrots.


I did go out for a drink after work, and had to figure out my points as best I could estimate. I ended up about a point over for the day.

All in all, a successful day. 10 weeks and 5 days left to go.

3 comments:

broccoflower said...

Go you! I'll send you (or one of your weight loss buddies will) a kick ass recipe for cake/cupcakes that will absolutely blow you away and is easy to make. [google "diet coke cake" or "diet soda cake" and "weight watchers"]

Becardi said...

Yum - Diet coke cake. a can of diet coke a box of dry cake mix - mix it together, bake it and ice it with fat free cool whip. REALLY good. I mean better than the real version. Try it.

broccoflower said...

I hate cool whip, so I either use tasty fatty frosting or I mix a box of fat free sugar free chocolate fudge pudding into cool whip to ice it.