Mower went to his doctor for a quick check-up, more to get a new prescription for his inhaler than anything. They found sugar in his urine, and ordered a three hour glucose test, which he got the results for on Wednesday. He has early onset of diabetes. His mother and grandmother both have diabetes, so it's not that surprising, but a weight gain of 17 pounds in 2 months was. He immediately put it into perspective and said it was a good wake-up call and he was dedicated to losing weight and eating better to try to reverse it before it turned into full-blown diabetes.

We worked out together for three days in a row now. Wednesday, I did the elliptical for 67 minutes and burned 1000 calories. Thursday, I did the elliptical, the bike, and the treadmill for approx 600 calories burned. Today, I did the elliptical and the treadmill and burned off 1000 calories. Mower told me to set the weight on the machines to 10 pounds below my actual weight so I would probably be safe in assuming the calories burned were a solid number and not too high. The drawback to losing weight is that you have to up the level or speed to compensate for the lower calories it figures you burn at a lower weight. Mower usually does the elliptical at level 4. I got up to level 15 on Wednesday, and level 18 for one excrutiatingly horrific minute today. I saw the ghost of cheesecakes past float before my eyes during that minute.

Since July 9, I have removed 8 pounds. My current weight is again 250. My goal is to be 200 or below at Christmas. The last time I was below 200 was in 2002, around my 26th birthday. My weight when first pregnant with Bubba was 187, and I gained 33 pounds. After her birth, I lost 10 and stayed at 210 until 2002. I went back up to 222 when I first got pregnant with Handsome, went up to 264 at the end, then down to 227 within a few weeks of his birth, but then gained it all back. October 2005, I was 264 again. I am considering July 9th my Independence Day, since I started taking it more seriously than I have in years. I think Mower is going to have August 2 be his Independence Day, the day he knew it was time to stop talking about it and start working on it.

I feel good about this. I see improvement in my posture and skin already, plus the 8 pounds is nice. I hope 2 more comes off for a total of 10 pounds in one month. If I am able to keep that up, I would be at my goal weight of 135 in just over a year. Wish me sweaty, fat-burning luck!