I'm a Loser (a weight loser that is)

With the exception of Sundays, since my gym closes early at 1:00 p.m. and two other days where I only went once, I have been doing these two-a-days at the gym for three weeks now. I am not sure what finally kicked me in the pants to start going but getting on the scale and seeing a new heaviest weight for me did not help. As of this morning when I weighed myself, I have lost 13.6 pounds since starting this little love affair with the gym. Here is my routine (1) wake up at 5:10 a.m. and go to the gym and do 40 minutes on the stair stepper -- always trying to exceed the number of calories in each 40 minutes from the previous morning (2) go home drink ice water and eat plain yogurt mixed with EAS protein powder (3) go to the gym in the evening around 5:00 p.m. and do a full weight workout regimen and then another 40 minutes on the stair stepper, again trying to exceed the previous night's calories in the 40 minute timeframe. If you workout in the morning and evening you know that you are able to exert more energy in the evening than the morning. I initially was only doing about 425-450 calories in 40 minutes but yesterday, I did about 610 calories in the morning and 697 calories in the evening, on top of whatever the weights burn off. So far I'm pleased with the progress and hope to return home for Thanksgiving in pretty good shape. I will keep doing two-a=days until I've reached my goal weight, which is what I weighed at the cruise I went on in March 2007.