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Time for another update.

Keep going! 25.4 lbs to go!

Weekly loss: 2.5 lbs. — Daily deficit: 1269 calo­ries.
You will reach your goal of 155 lbs on 2009-05-01. (245 days early!)

As you can see, I’m miss­ing today’s entry. There’s no scale at Jeremy’s place and I don’t know if I will get to one today. (I used the one at Andrew’s place for yesterday’s mea­sure­ment.) I didn’t do any­thing extra­or­di­nary yes­ter­day, though, so there shouldn’t be much of a problem.

So far, I’ve lost 18.8 lbs of mea­sured weight (1.6 lbs in the last week) and 14.7 lbs of “real weight” (2.2 lbs in the last week). When I was doing the fam­ily chal­lenge, I had lost 12 lbs at this point, and was at the begin­ning of a backslide.

I had a spike in my mea­sure­ments over the week­end once again this week. I think it’s because my fam­ily is home and eat­ing every meal, so it’s harder for me to skip meals. Do you know how hard it is to ignore your stom­ach when you wake up to the smell of bacon? Besides he actual food temp­ta­tions, though, meals are a time when my fam­ily gets together and talks, so I don’t want to miss out on that. I just need to be pre­pared with a big glass of water to help con­trol my baser instincts.

Despite that, though, progress is decent. Aaron L men­tioned it to me at karaōke, and I was a bit sur­prised since I haven’t really seen a dif­fer­ence in myself yet. I mean, I see the num­bers going down, but when I look at myself in a mir­ror, I don’t really see a change. I am still going strong and should have no prob­lem hit­ting my goal of being under 175 by the end of the month.

Here’s the lat­est update!

Keep going! 34.1 lbs to go!

Weekly loss: 2.7 lbs. — Daily deficit: 1353 calo­ries.
You will reach your goal of 155 lbs on 2009-04-21. (255 days early!)

Minor update on the graph, I’ve added lines to show the bar­ri­ers between BMI ranges that show up between your cur­rent and goal weights.

So far, I’ve lost 8.7 lbs of mea­sured weight (2.2 lbs in the last week) and 6 lbs of “real weight” (2.7 lbs in the last week). That’s good progress, but I feel like I could have done a lot better.

I was going alright until around the 186 lb “bar­rier,” where I seemed to stall a lit­tle. At first, I think it was just an issue of water weight. I really wanted to end the week under 186, though, because that’s the BMI bar­rier for my height between “obese” and “overweight.”

The real trou­ble started on Wednes­day night, though. I went to Davis to hang out because Drew M came back to town. Told myself I would only have one drink, but end­ing up sam­pling three types of Chi­may with Drew M and Aaron L. To make things worse, I had drunk munchies and scarfed down fries and M&Ms afterwords.

Then, I was stranded in Davis because I car­pooled with Joe M out but was going to come back with Will N, but he decided to spend the night. Spent all day in Davis and didn’t really drink water through­out the day, so I was pretty hun­gry when din­ner time came. Had fries for an appe­tizer and a larger meal than I should have. Then I had hella water after­wards because the food was pretty salty to me.

Any­way, Thursday’s weight is skewed because I took it after I got home on Thurs­day night, with a stom­ach full of food and water. A day of mis­takes drove my progress back­wards by sev­eral pounds, so les­son learned — my self-control goes to shit when out with friends. I don’t want to become a her­mit, so I really need to be aware and watch out for that in the future.

I’m going to try to ramp up my exer­cise pro­gram, so hope­fully I’ll have bet­ter news to report next week.

My lack of focus is caus­ing some prob­lems. I’m try­ing to find a job right now to hold me over, but my psych degree doesn’t mean much, and my com­puter sci­ence skills aren’t good enough to get a job in that field, either.

I do have two lit­tle pro­gram­ming projects going, though. First one is Assas­sins for the APhiO site. Should be sim­ple, just need to update exist­ing code to reflect Aaron L’s new rules. Sec­ond one is another diet site for my fam­ily, based on the Hacker’s Diet that I’ve been doing. That one should be more inter­est­ing. It’s going to be based on the Hacker’s Diet Word­Press plug-in, but also com­bined with some of the fea­tures from my orig­i­nal fam­ily weight chal­lenge site and includ­ing some fea­tures that the plug-in author hasn’t imple­mented yet, includ­ing switch­ing from JPGraph to YUI Chart, which is a lot more “Web 2.0.”

If only I make a liv­ing on projects like that.