Weight-Loss Update 19
First, a note about the title of this post. Since I was keeping a weight-loss journal on my own site, I’ve decided to simply continue them here.
You can read the backstory, if you’d like.
And now back to your regularly scheduled program.
Pounds This Period: 2
Pounds Total: 44
Current Weight: 246
Pounds to Go: 18
Weeks to Go: 13
Rate To Go: 1.4lbs/wk
My immediate goal for next week is to hit 244 (-2), which will be my lowest weight in six years!
I also have a lot of catching up to do, because my wife just reached the milestone of having lost SEVENTY POUNDS (70!) over the last year-and-a-half.
She shames me.
It’s actually quite exciting, because her 10-year High School reunion is this weekend…and who doesn’t want to win the “HOLY SHIT YOU GOT SUPER HOT” award at their reunion?
Adjusting to life back in the US has been a little difficult. When you’re on vacation, you walk a lot and your access to food is limited to meal-times. When you work from home like me, and you sit at a desk that’s less than 20 feet from the refridgerator (what can I say, we live in the middle of Seattle - space is at a premium ’round these parts), temptation raps its filthly knuckles on your forehead all day long.
I’ve tried to be good, and obviously I did something right because I managed to lose weight this past week, but I did notice a disturbing trend: it is considerably easier for me to simply NOT eat than it is for me to eat a reasonable portion of food. When I start to eat, it’s like flood gates open up and it is incredibly hard for me to stop - I want the feeling of eating to continue. I do stop, of course, when I’m so full I can’t stand to put anything else in my mouth. This is bad.
The alternative to this, simply not eating, is equally horrible from both a dieting and general health perspective, so it’s obviously not an option.
That’s the (first) major challenge going forward - to control the in media res urges.