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Medifast Status: Day 200, Down ~70lbs

Day two hundred on Medifast!  That is crazy.

It was a nice day today, cool but warm enough to be able to sit outside.  Jen and I were able to go to the cafe today and have our coffee outside.  She didn’t even wear a jacket although I thought that it was cool enough that I was glad to be in a fleece.

Work went a little bit late today and it was nearly eight in the evening when I was able to get home and get the family loaded up and get on the road so that we could drive down to Houston for the weekend.  We are doing the Tocco Sibling Thanksgiving tomorrow evening so we are going down there tonight.  Then Francesca and the kids are coming back up to Dallas with us on Sunday to spend the week in Dallas.

I’ve had too much food recently so I am attempting to cut back a little.  I skipped dinner tonight and Dominica was just going to get food while on the drive.  We swung into Panda Express but they were completely out of shrimp!  So much for that.  Now Dominica has to figure out where to get food.

We ended up finding a Subway on the drive and Min got a salad there with tunafish salad which was pretty tasty and decently “on plan.”  So that was not all that bad.  In reality the salad was probably a better option than eating the fried shrimp at Panda Express.

The drive was not bad but it was pretty late when we arrived at the Grices’.  Liesl slept well in the car and had way too much energy once we got there.

Medifast Status: Day 199, Down ~70lbs

Nearly two hundred days on MediFast.  Hard to believe.  In some ways it feels like I have just started but in others it has come to feel like a lifestyle and I barely think about it anymore.  Maybe that is why I have stalled so much.  I really need to redouble my efforts and focus on tracking exactly what I eat and when and keeping strictly to the plan.  I really want to drop the last thirtyish pounds and get into the maintenance phases rather than the loss phases.  Dominica is doing really well still as well as she has hit the forty pound loss mark now too.

I went into work today, nothing really special about the day.  In the office like usual.  Grabbed a quick drink at Red Rock on the way home.  Came home and hung out with the family for a while.

Dominica wanted to get some shopping in this evening so later on after the girls had gone to bed I stayed home and worked and Dominica ran out to Walmart for a little bit.

Medifast Status: Day 198, Down ~70lbs

Today is our final day as La Cima members.  It has been a year and a half and La Cima has been a major component of our life here in Texas.  We have been members here nearly since arriving in Texas.  We joined long before buying our first house here.  We’ve eaten more meals at La Cima than anywhere else in Texas.

We went up for pasta night tonight.  It is fitting that our last meal with be pasta night with friend because that is how it all started.  Brian Watson, who is also no longer a member at the club, had taken Souder, Tara and I to La Cima for pasta night back around April of 2010 or somewhere around there.  We thought that it was great.  I brought Dominica back and she decided right away that she wanted to join.  We have used the club more and more since then.  Liesl loves it and we really appreciated the opportunity for her to grow up in a place like this.

Tonight it was Jen and Tamara joining Dominica, Liesl, Luciana and I for pasta night dinner.  Dominica and I could obviously not do pasta tonight but it worked out as we had one of our Plus meals left to use anyway.

Dinner was good.  It is not like we will not be returning to La Cima.  We just are no longer local members at La Cima.  With our membership at Brookhaven we have associate membership at La Cima so we are still able to come back here anytime that we want and, in fact, we get a buy one, get one meal each month that we need to use either at La Cima, The Tower Club or Park City Club.  Even if we do a rotation we will be using that meal quarterly at La Cima.  Likely we will be there a lot more often than that just because we are comfortable there and they are used to our dietary requirements.  Park City is way more fancy than we would want to do with kids (jacket required) and the Tower Club, while really easy to do as adults via train, is a bit more of an effort when you have the kids.  I’m sure that we will use the Tower a bit, especially as we get used to using the train to get there and as the girls get older, but Park City will be a special occasion kind of place.

After dinner Dominica and the girls drove back home.  We had driven separately so I walked Jen to her car in the garage and we talked for a while.  Then on my way over to my car I ran into a bunch of the La Cima crew hanging out in the garage and I hung out with them for a while too.

Home and off to bed.

Medifast Status: Day 197, Down ~70lbs

This one was not so long ago and yet this whole month has been an incredible blur.  Maybe Dominica will remember…

Medifast Status: Day 196, Down ~70lbs

Back to the work week.  Very little of interest today.  My class is over and I have no idea how I did.  It will likely be weeks before I have any feedback on the class which contributes to how useless the homework and whatnot is because the feedback doesn’t come until weeks after you would have needed it to have adjusted what you were doing.

No news.  Calling it a post.