Well, here I am in week 5 and I have dropped nearly 30 lbs. It feels good!
More importantly, I dropped below the top end of my ‘athletic weight’ of 300 lbs. In college it was so much easier to lug it around… but I am happy to say good bye to it and move on to a lower level.
I never look at the BMI (body mass index) as they have little relevance to folks like me with more than double average bone density and built to endure long cold winters ( long torso)… because my ‘goal weight’ is still considered obese. This is darkly amusing because the last time I was at that weight ( my goal weight) a lot of folks thought I was suffering from an incurable disease associated with being too thin.
In any event, I am at 296… I have placed the picture of the ‘before’ of Kristie Alley as inspiration.
Laura and Karen have really done well through all of this… I am glad I joined them. I did send Karen a small meal of ‘turducken’ with all the trimmings in a resealable container that she lovingly refers to as ‘Daddy Craig’… to be opened sometime in the future… not so much as a ‘reward’… but as a remembrance of home.
Losing weight has been a lot more fun this time. It even tastes better.
Roger Freberg
Okay, I have to admit it… Jenny Craig really does work. In spite of my best efforts to submarine my diet with a 
