Time for another update.

Keep going! 30.1 lbs to go!

Weekly loss: 1.9 lbs. — Daily deficit: 937 calo­ries.
You will reach your goal of 155 lbs on 2009-​05-​29. (217 days early!)

I barely made progress this week. So far, I’ve lost 13.4 lbs of mea­sured weight (1 lb in the last week) and 10 lbs of “real weight” (1.5 lbs in the last week). When I was doing the fam­ily chal­lenge, I had actu­ally lost 12 lbs at this point, so I guess I’m slightly ahead still. I did get my “real weight” under the obese line, and hope­fully I can just keep mov­ing it lower and lower.

As you can see, this was quite a roller-​coaster week for me. The week­end mea­sure­ments were skewed because I took the Sun­day one on Sun­day night when I got back home from Reno/​Tahoe, and aver­aged the dif­fer­ence for Saturday’s weight. The weights in the week are also a lit­tle weird because I would weigh in at dif­fer­ent times depend­ing on if I had work or not. Not much of a dif­fer­ence, but I swear there is.

Any­way, the real rea­son for my prob­lems this week is self-​control. I went to two buf­fets, once in Reno with the guys and again in Davis for Tommy L’s birth­day. Both times, I think my thrifti­ness got in the way of my por­tion con­trol, and I ate more than I should have to get “my money’s worth.” I really need to focus on the long-​term instead of short-​term gains. I also had trou­ble keep­ing an estab­lished exer­cise pat­tern dur­ing the start of my work. Hope­fully Don’t Break The Chain will help with that.

As this seems to be the start of birth­day sea­son, and I do have more money thanks to my gain­ful employ­ment now, I really need to watch myself as I go out with friends and con­trol my eat­ing and drinking.