Personal Shrinkage

Back on the ... uh, wagon?

2011-04-18T16:03:00.000-07:00

So it's been months and months, but this hasn't entirely left my attention. I have been slowly "in the background" trying to set myself up for some weightloss. Here's some of the updates:

Moved the treadmill. Got it set up with a monitor for video-while-walking. Might be able to do a treadmill desk but I'm in no hurry to go there yet.
Weighed myself (moved the scale out to the office so I could do this). I've been watching my weight hover around 270#.
My diabetes is horribly out of check, I know. I only today started taking my sugar readings and it was 374. Eek. I ran out of meds so it's pretty much untreated right now. I do have a follow-up appointment for Wednesday though.

So... small steps. Whee.

280.0 / 269.9 / 170.0
99.89# / 110# / 90.82% to go.

Thursday... and no there's no echo.

2010-12-09T12:00:00.001-08:00

So, funny that nobody suggested anything. So I just sort of tried to eat less. And maybe exercise a bit more, although that's kind of tough considering. That and I got deathly sick this week and couldn't keep anything down for 24 hours. But I figured I'd "weigh in" again today, and lo I've lost a bit over 5# since my last post, so that's good.

I'm mostly posting this just as a reminder to myself to eat sanely where possible :). But the happy realization that I was down a few pounds doesn't hurt either.

274.3 / 280.0 / 170
104.3# / 110# / 94.82% to go.

Thursday ... REBOOT!

2010-11-11T12:43:00.000-08:00

After the world's longest reboot -- something like 2.5 years -- I've decided to start this blog again. Sigh. Of course I've come to the conclusion (as if I needed more empirical data) that my body's natural equilibrium is right about 280#. And of course to adjust that equilibrium I need to either lower my caloric intake, increase my caloric burn rate, or adjust metabolic "constants" by adjusting what I eat and not just the quantity. Yeah, that's pretty much rambling.

Yesterday, though, I weighed myself at 279#. So apparently 4 BLT sandwiches for dinner is enough to make you gain a pound. Who knew? Ok, but in my defense they were really good sandwiches (kudos to Chris on that one).

Not sure what I'm going to try to eat today. I had two eggy-muffin sandwiches (but with Mayo and Cheese) so I'm probably not doing stellar. I have some soup and was thinking about finishing off the leftover hamburger helper for lunch. And I'm not sure what Chris has planned for dinner.

Well, more later. I'm trying to decide if I ought to count calories or points or what. Let me know what you think.

280.0 / 280.0 / 170 -- 110# / 100% to go.