Winner, Winner, Chicken dinner

We are going to the casino up the road to play and spend the night.  This will be a great test to see if I can integrate back into life a little.  We have eaten out a few times, I've done OK....mainly because I was scared I was going to eat to fast, get the foamies and puke.  I'm cheap, so eating a few ounces at a buffet would normally really bug me, but we have comps for 2 free buffet meals so that should be OK, we also have some free play and our room is complimentary.....so all we have to do is our play money....the free play is usually not for our favorite machines.  It would be great to win some big money....although I'm usually OK to win enough to keep playing.

I'm officially down 32.8 lbs, I have my 3rd Pandora bead

 and wearing size 16.

A few if the 16's must run small because they a tight, and I don't have a lot in size 16, but I need to make them work.  When I get to 14 I'll have a lot to wear....then at 12 and below I will have to start doing a little shopping.

Now that I'm on regular food, I'm getting better at water, protein and vitamins, not perfect but better.  I figure this is such a huge lifestyle change, that it will just take time and it will be something I will have to work on my whole life.

I had a follow up with my Primary Care Dr. on Friday, he was really happy with my progress...called me skinny....which at 196 I'm not...but I'm much better that before.  He halfed my B/P med....and may take me off completely next visit...he did not want to take me off cold turkey...but if I get off that I will have accomplished first goal of getting off prescription meds.  Can't wait to see what my blood work is.

I'm doing really good with my exercise, having a personal trainer is really helping, and on my off gym days I'm walking and starting to get to my 10,000 steps...I've done that twice now.

So all in all things are going well, I go back to work on Thursday, so that is my next challenge...figuring out how to make this new lifestyle work with work!