I have a feeling that my mess up last week slowed down progress, but I weighed in this morning at another two pounds that have disappeared forever (hopefully). So that makes for a very happy 8 pound smaller woman walking around today. Although I still cannot see a difference, the scale is giving me the motivation to continue on. I fell absolutely great about where I am sitting, and feel a little bit more energized throughout the day. I have heard and read that losing just 10% of your body weight carries great health benefits. They say that it can reverse or prevent diabetes, which is a big health issue in my family. They also say that it will lower your blood pressure, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels and it improves sleep problems (which would be a big help). Ten percent of my body weight would be 20.5 pounds. So I am a little less than half way there, but still pretty far from my final goal. With Medifast I feel that reaching all of my weight related health goals is possible.

Just a side note: In about a month we are going to be making a trip down to Texas to see my in-laws. I heard on the radio, and again later on read in a magazine, that extra weight in the vehicle means lower gas mileage. On the radio they said that it figures out to be about every forty pounds of weight in your vehicle equals out to an extra 2.5 gallons of gas used at each fill up. So I decided to look at about how much that would save us if I was twenty pounds lighter. It is approximately 1200 miles down there and back with an additional about 300 miles driven while we are down there, which comes out to 2700 miles. If gas prices stay at about $3.15, we would be spending approximately $386.60. So if you figure twenty pounds would save about 1.25 gallons of gas at each fill up, that equals out to a savings of an entire tank of gas over the whole trip. That is over a $50 dollar savings. Wow!

Until next time……