I’m only a little overdue for the weekly report:
Starting Weight:
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264.2
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Original Target*:
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279.2
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Adjusted Target:
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262.4
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Actual Weight:
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262.4
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Loss/Gain:
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– 1.8
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Total Loss:
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40.2
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% of Goal:
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29.0%
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Avg. Loss/Wk.:
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– 3.1
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*Original target calculated from a starting weight of 302.6
lbs. and an average loss/wk. of 1.8 lbs.
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It’s also past time for the monthly report, which is graphed
in the upper left. On the monthly charts, the target weight is calculated from
the first day of the month, while the master chart is calculated from the
starting weight. Unlike last month, in which the “actual” line was far more
often above the “target” line than below it, this month the “actual” was
consistently below the “target”, though not always as far below it as I would
have liked. This next month is already off to a rocky start, as I’m almost a
pound over where I should be. However, since the target drops a little less
than 0.3 lbs./day and my weight can fluctuate as much as 1 lb./day, I can get
back on track pretty rapidly.
To date, I’ve lost 40 pounds in three months, or about 13.3
pounds a month. Not bad when you only plan to lose about 7.7 – 8 pounds a
month. I now have about 98 pounds to lose in order to achieve a BMI of 24.9,
which would be in the “healthy” range. However, as I’ve noted before, the rate
has slowed down; I can’t plan on big drops now any more than I planned on the
big drops in the first six weeks. This is where patience and determination have
to take over and get me through the long haul because at just under 2 pounds a
week, it’s going to take a bit more than a year to shed all that weight.
Probably longer, because I fully expect the rate to slow more once I pass the halfway
point.
And that’s not thinking about any plateaus.
In looking over the last couple of weeks, I do note a couple
of disturbing trends. For one, I’m tending to skip breakfast again, which
usually leads to more midday snacking. For another, I’m not logging candy
consistently; chocolate calories, I’m afraid, do count. Third, while counting
my daily steps has its advantages, I need to stop looking to it to provide wiggle
room and treat my budget max as an absolute ceiling until it’s time for my
bedtime snack. (I still haven’t made up my mind on intermittent fasting.)
One slightly disturbing oddity I noticed while I was in the
bathroom this morning: My larynx is slowly beginning to emerge from the layers
of fat around my neck. The effect gives me something of a slight turkey wattle.
When you lose weight rapidly, your skin doesn’t shrink as rapidly as your fat
cells do; I’m told by others who have lost a lot of weight that walking around
in a too-large birthday suit can be uncomfortable for a while. That’s another
advantage of losing weight slowly — your skin can shrink with you.
To conclude: After one calendar quarter, I’m down over a
quarter of the weight I intend to lose. By the end of Q2 (August 11), I hope to
be down to 239 or less, having checked off a couple more intermediate goals. The
next 40 pounds won’t be as easy as the first. But I’m in it for the long haul.
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