September 10, 2011: Emily’s Party

Medifast Status: Day 131, Down ~57lbs We are down in Houston today.  We came down this weekend to celebrate Emily’s birthday.  The weather is turning hot again.  Hopefully this will not last for very long.  The next few days are supposed to be pretty rough but after that the rain should be coming.  What a …

Disabling Quotas on a ReadyNAS Ultra NAS

If you have a ReadyNAS Ultra you may want to disable quotas in order to eliminate some issues.  I’ve experienced issues myself where CIFS copies would fail due to the filesystem being out of space even though quotas are set insanely high and the ReadyNAS interface is reporting plenty of space left on the device.  …

September 9, 2011: A New Record Week of Loss

Medifast Status: Day 130, Down ~57lbs I slept in a little this morning.  Dominica got up and went running and Oreo decided to come over and be super snugly so I could not bring myself to get up on time.  When I weighed in this morning I was down another pound and a half.  I …

September 8, 2011: Off of the Plateau

Medifast Status: Day 129, Down ~55.5lbs So our second summer in Texas turned out to be the hottest summer that Texas has ever seen and the second hottest summer ever seen in the US losing out to Oklahoma which was just barely hotter than us this summer.  July was the hottest single month in Texas …

September 7, 2011: Reconnecting in Dallas

Medifast Status: Day 128, Down ~54lbs Today was a major breakthrough day on my diet.  I broke another numeric barrier and I can see that my weight loss is starting to speed back up a little bit.  Losing two pounds per week is encouraging, for the most part.  Losing one pound per week is not …