Weight loss: This week: -1.6 - Total Weight lost: 34.1 lbs - Current weight: 299.8 - Original Weight: 333.9 The Weekly Challenge: It's always stress, but this week, we have a new complication: medication. Since my health insurance finally kicked in, I got to see the doctor for the first time in many months. I'm... Continue Reading →

Weight loss: This week: -2.3 - Total Weight lost: 32.5 lbs - Current weight: 301.4 - Original Weight: 333.9 The Weekly Challenge: Home from working at the hospital for an unusual five days in a row, it was a struggle not to eat myself out of house and home. It's also a struggle, on my... Continue Reading →

Weight loss: This week: +1 - Total Weight lost: 30.2 lbs - Current weight: 303.7 - Original Weight: 333.9 The Weekly Challenge: One pound gain isn't the worst news, I suppose, but working this hard to see the scale go up one pound is irritating. I'm still stressed out. No weekly challenge -- just surviving.... Continue Reading →

Weight loss: This week: -8.4 - Total Weight lost: 31.2 lbs - Current weight: 302.7 - Original Weight: 333.9 The Weekly Challenge: Huge total loss this week. From a weight loss perspective, the only challenge has been eating on my days off. At the hospital, I'm so busy for so many hours of the day,... Continue Reading →

Weight loss: This week: -4.8 - Total Weight lost: 22.8 lbs - Current weight: 311.1 - Original Weight: 333.9 The Weekly Challenge: The specific challenge has been staying motivated to do anything while working at the hospital and feeling broke. Cheap, carb-laden food is always available. Easy to get, easy to fix, and mighty good... Continue Reading →

Weight loss: Original Weight: 333.9 - Current weight: 315.9 - This week: -1.1 - Total Weight lost: 18 lbs The Weekly Challenge: Working at the hospital, going from sedentary to perpetual motion is a rough transition. Moreover, getting healthy food at the cafeteria in the hospital is posing a surprising challenge since so many of... Continue Reading →

Weight loss: Original Weight: 333.9 - Current weight: 317.0 - This week: -6.0 - Total Weight lost: 16.9 lbs The Weekly Challenge: Working Stress: I have just experienced my first three days as an actual working floor nurse. I don't know why my teachers used to say that you'd gain weight as a new nurse,... Continue Reading →

Weight loss: Original Weight: 333.9 - Current weight: 323.0 - Total Weight lost: 10.9 lbs - This week: +3.3 The Weekly Challenge: New Job Stress. At the new hospital doing orientation, I've been doing a tremendous amount of walking. Walking everywhere -- the campus is huge. I am so out of shape, my heart felt... Continue Reading →

Weight loss: Original Weight: 333.9 - Current weight: 319.7 - Total Weight lost: 14.2 lbs Measurements: Neck: 16.75" - Arm: 19" - Chest: 55.75/45" - Waist: 50" - Hip: 57" - Thigh 34.5" (I'm only going to report measurements once a month) The Weekly Challenge: Stress. It's always stress. When isn't it stress? I showed... Continue Reading →

Weight loss: Original Weight: 333.9 - Current weight: 321.4 - Total Weight lost: 12.5 Measurements: Still no measurements. Got to make a point of it. The Weekly Challenge: A tremendous amount of stress and worry that I'm causing myself prior to my start at Grey-Sloan Hospital. It has become very real. All of it. And... Continue Reading →