August 15, 2008 - New Weighty Matters

So, 228.5lbs was about where I left off and I never did much better than that, maybe 226. Around thanksgiving I took a cruise and that kicked off the slow return of the weight until, by around July of this year, i was back up at 258lbs. I half-heartedly started again about then, but did not really start until last Sunday. Weigh in that morning was 258.5lbs.

I am still a fan of what I learned last year. I realize it takes discipline and when other things intervened (I started a new job last November) the will shifted. I am now comfortable in my new job and ready to start again.

This time, I am adding exercise to the mix. Before, I walked a bit but not enough to really make a big difference. This time I am actually using that health club membership I bought last winter. For the first time :-/ Yay! Every day, after work, I am hitting the pool and swimming. As of today I am up to swimming 1100 meters. That ought to be good for about 600 calories. Also my new job is not longer a work from home situation so my basic expenditure of calories is higher than before. I figure, with the swimming and still walking, that I am burning close to 3400 calories a day. I am consuming about 1500 calories a day. That ought to produce a weight loss of a pound every 2 days or so.

So, what are the results, you might ask. As of this morning I weighed 249.5lbs. 9 pounds, 5 days! I know that 4 or 5 of that was water weight, but still. At present I am still dropping about 1lb per day but I expect that to slack off. I also plan to reduce my deficit to maybe 1200 calories a day from 1900 which will produce a much healthier 1lb per 3 days weight loss rate. Yet again we'll see how long I can keep this up. My sincere hope is that one day all of this sort of thing becomes habit.

One nice thing about doing this, this time around is that I don't have to fret over how many calories are in a thing. I learned enough, before, that I can estimate well enough. +/- 20% is what I figure my accuracy is. Plus I know what foods to eat to help me stay with it.

I do know one thing. This will last until Thanksgiving, the date of my next cruise. See, I have a wager with my Brother-In-Law on who can lose more weight by the cruise and I am not going to lose that bet.