Yeah, I’ve been silent for a while. This last couple of
weeks have been a struggle to get back into the discipline of dieting, during
which I had to re-think the decision I made last month to decrease my Lose It!
budget adjustment. First, though, let’s get to the weekly numbers:
Starting
Weight:
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236.2
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Original Target*:
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250.4
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Adjusted Target:
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234.4
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Actual Weight:
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237.4
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Loss/Gain:
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+
1.2
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Total Loss:
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65.2
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% of Goal:
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47.0%
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Avg. Loss/Wk.:
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–
2.2
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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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Since Aug. 11, I’ve only lost 2.4 pounds. Obviously, I
missed my goal of ≤
233.2 by Sept. 1, which by itself is disappointing. However, more frustrating
is the fact that I’m almost four pounds over the plan month target line and
will have to lose 5.6 pounds in the next week to get back on track. Not
impossible, but improbable because difficult without some degree of intentional
starvation, which after several months’ consideration I’m not inclined to
support even if we call it “fasting.”
I’m still 13 pounds ahead of where I’d originally planned to
be, which is good; as I’ve said before, the point is not so much to lose N pounds
by D date as it is just to lose the N pounds. But I don’t want the
program to sputter to a halt because I lost focus and/or discipline. The first
couple of weeks were excusable due to the circumstances of my mother’s death and
funeral. Not so the last couple of weeks; in all honesty, I can’t even call it
a “plateau.” “It’ll take as long as it takes” is meant to encourage patience,
not to rationalize dicking off.