Day 66 - continued progress

Wednesday I went to the local Clinic office to have blood drawn for some tests, and I used their scale to weight myself. I clocked in at 370lbs, and given that the scale there tended high (I was 10lbs higher there than at the bariatric center two weeks later), I'm pretty happy. The panels all came back normal, except for uric acid, which was high because of my diet.

I occasionally try on clothes from my closet, as another way to gauge my progress, and I'm pretty officially down to a size 56 from a size 60. Pants sizes are harder to gain lose the more you weigh, due to the nature of a three dimensional solid, so shedding those sizes was a good thing for me.

One interesting development of the last week or so is that I haven't had any food cravings for anything I'm not allowed. I think about steak, or pork, but I no longer have the intense cravings for pizza or ice cream I once had. Part of me thinks it's just cyclical, but part of me wonders if it's been so long that I'm genuinely losing my taste for those things.

Finally, I've had great success experimenting with my cuban meat pile. I've taken to shredding the cheese, adding a small amount of hot sauce to the chicken while I heat it up, and using more pickles. Here's a picture of a later attempt: