I guess so! A week ago, I hit the 40 pound loss. Today, I hit 43, right on the nose. Nearly 3 pounds in a week (2.8)! Hot damn. I thought I’d been slowing up, but maybe, just maybe, I won’t slow up quite yet. A week to go, roughly, until day 30 of P90 Masters, and a pound and a half away from my goal for pretty much every 30 days (10 pounds per 30 is my goal). I’ve done better than that every month so far.

I’m really looking forward to going into a maintenance mode. I find I’ve been hungrier lately, and I have been eating more on days that I work out. For the first three months, my target was about 1500 calories. This past week, I’ve been doing more like 1800, and 2000 yesterday. According to my nifty little iPod app “Lose It!”, my daily caloric intake for losing a pound a week is a shade over 2000 calories, if I were to do no exercise at all. With the exercise, I’m probably burning 300-500 calories extra, so I think I’m sitting about where I should be to hit my monthly goals. What I don’t want to do is make my body think I’m starving it. I want to keep my muscles.

Today, I officially crossed the “40 pound” barrier, coming in at 40.2 pounds lost. Twenty more to go. Can’t wait to see what that feels like.

Honestly, I’m really bothered by what I’m about to do, at least, with the first pic. I’m embarrassed somewhat that I ever allowed myself to get THAT far out of shape. The result of years of stagnation. However, the reason I’m showing you is the second picture, and what it means.

The second picture is the result of some work (about 45 minutes a day) and eating appropriately and healthily. That really is all it takes to lose 35 pounds in 90 days.

Now, these pictures are really about two weeks later than 90 days, and we’ve started working Power 90 Masters and I’ve lost another four pounds, even with taking a week off (where I pretty much stayed the same that week). So the difference between the pictures is nearly forty pounds. I’m hoping, if you need it, that these pictures can inspire you. It’s amazing what can be done in a short amount of time if you really put the effort into it.

So we started Power 90 Masters series four days ago, and despite the fact that I’m having some knee trouble (wearing a brace during the workouts seems to be helping), I’m enjoying doing something different. I’m now down to 187, which puts the total weight loss at 38.5 pounds, which isn’t too shabby at all. It also means I’ve only got 22 pounds to go to reach my goal target weight.

Also, I’ve been obsessed, really, with an old/new Laughing Dragon Games project. Finally. I think I’ve got a good plan, too, for finally turning LDG into what I wanted it to be originally. You can check out the project blog at http://www.infinitesuns.com/blog.aspx. I’m really excited about it, and it’s hard for me to stop working on it to get other things done, which bodes well for it’s future.

Actually, today is Day 91, but it’s my birthday, so you’ll have to forgive me for fudging a little. Also, despite the fact that the program says to take pics and weigh on Day 90, it seems odd to me that you would weigh yourself before completing all of Day 90 – I mean, don’t you want to find out what that last day did? I do, so here’s the initial result.

Day 1: 225.4 pounds/33.8% body fat

Day 90: 191.0 pounds/25.8% body fat

That’s 34 1/2 freakin pounds in 90 days! When you take into account that I lost another 4-5 pounds just prior to Day 1 (weighed at the doctor with clothes on, 232), my total weight loss is nearly 40 pounds. We haven’t measured ourselves yet, or taken the pictures. Things are kind of hectic around here with birthdays, t-ball, wife’s physical therapy sessions – it’s hard enough getting time in for the workouts.

So, what’s next? A week of leisurely exercise (some light cardio, mostly) to let the body rest and recover a bit, then we’ll start the Power 90 Masters series.

One more day left (well, really two since it’s still early morning) and I am very pleased. I’ve been on antibiotics for the last three days, stemming from that bout of illness I mentioned awhile ago, and despite the illness and the drugs and all, I’ve still managed to hit every workout and even added a couple extra sessions on the bike. I’d tell you my weight now (which I’m pretty dang happy about), except that tomorrow is Day 90 when we’re supposed to weigh in and take pictures, etc…

We’re thinking of weighing on Day 90, and on Day 91 as we weigh in the morning, and we won’t get an accurate reading after the last workout on Day 90, and reporting the better number (which would hopefully be the Day 91 number).

We’ve also concluded that, while Jillian Michaels from The Biggest Loser may have it over Tony Horton in the fame category, he’s got a big lead over her in the “keeps me pressing play” category. He’s just more fun to work out with. If I had to keep watching Jillian over and over again, it’s all work and staying on task with her, I’d have to switch out videos a lot sooner than it took us to want to switch out Tony.