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WEEK 375
Week Ending July 19, 2008
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*** Weigh-in for WEEK 375 ***
07/19/2008
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| Week Completed: | ___375___ |
| Weigh-In Weight: | 208.0 |
| Body Mass Index: | 26.0 |
| Average Weight for week: | 207.71 |
| Miles Walked for week: | 5.10 |
| Miles Walked in 2008: | 150.02 |
| Pounds +/- for this week: | +0.5 |
| Pounds lost total: | 31.5 |
| Made GOAL: 9/22/2001 † | |
* Made 10% at 215.5 pounds on 7/14/01
† Goal is 200 pounds.
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Week 375 Update
It seems that going on a cruise is not any easier on my journey than it is on my pocketbook. On my Saturday weigh-in before the cruise, I weighed 201 pounds—one pound over my goal weight. On Friday May 23, the day we got back, I weighed 206.0 pounds. I gained around 5 pounds during the cruise and they haven't gone away. In fact today, I am two pounds higher still.
I can't even say that I am struggling with the few pounds I am up, because I am not putting up much of a struggle. The only two things I am journaling right now are my daily weigh-ins and any walking that I do, which hasn't been much!
My Weight Commander Graph isn't looking too promising. My hollow squares show that I had one day where I was nearly 210 once more, and even the solid squares show a slight upward trend. It doesn't help when I get compliments like the one I got just over a week ago, saying that I look better today than I did when I was lighter. I used to call that a non-scale related reward when I got a compliment because of a weight change. But when I moved up above the normal range into the officially overweight range is it a reward? I find it confusing to be honest.
And the future graph isn't making me smile either. It says that when my favorite time of year comes rolling around and Halloween will be approaching, I'll be up around 213 or 214, if the current trend doesn't change.
I added a couple of projections to my Excel spreadsheet that are a different approach to the future trend. The first one is the "90-day projection based upon last 14 days". What it does is take the difference in weight from 2 weeks ago and today, and divides that by 14. This shows the average change per day over the last two weeks. It then multiplies that change by 90, and adds the result to today's weight.
Today that column reads 220.86 pounds. I look at that, and I feel pretty sad. I started out in 2001 at almost 240 pounds. Seven years later, I am looking at a projection that puts me all the way back up to 220 pounds. Worse, the last day that I journaled my food was June 4. I just quit. I only weigh 1.5 pounds more today than I weighed on June 4, and that is a wonder. I haven't quit watching what I am eating, I just quit writing it down. And here I sit, too apathetic to move in the right direction, 8 pounds overweight.
The second new column I added is using a less volatile number, something that is harder to move from day to day. This column is labeled, "90-day projection based on delta of 14-day average." This time I set it up to use the average weight for the past 14 days as today's number, and the average weight for the 14 days previous to two weeks ago as the second number, and then I treated those two numbers just like I did the two individual weights in the column I just discussed.
What this does is to cut out the bumps and dips, and look only at the major movement in my weight. A 14 day average tells me more about where I am at on the scale than looking at any one day. And comparing only two 14 day averages should show any real change in direction on the scale. This number is the most optimistic of them all. This column says that in 90 days I will weigh 208.99 pounds.
While this trend is better, that is still a pound gain over the next 3 months, or a 4 pound-per-year gain trend. While my weight is not climbing like a rocket, it is still climbing. So, what comes next? I need to monitor what I eat closer and I need to exercise more. Can I do it? I don't know. Finding the fire in my soul that makes things like that happen seems to be problematic at the moment. I don't feel a burning need to be thinner, since I am comfortable where I am.
When I was in high school in the 1960s, during a lecture to the boys in the boys dorm, Mr. Houston, who was one of my teachers, said, "There is no hope for a satisfied man." Hope of course was meant as hope for things like progress and growth in school, promotion and advancement in a job.
If you are satisfied, you won't struggle to change things. We see this is true in people and even in entire countries. It all to often takes pain to cause one to really want to change. It was painful for me to look at myself in 2001 and I was tired far too much of the time. Those things drove me to change my lifestyle. Now, at 208 in 2008, I feel pretty good, and don't puke when I look in the mirror.  I don't feel the drive to make a change.
However, I am still weighing each morning when I get up, and watching what I am eating. I do want to exercise more, and it is bugging me that I am not doing that. I am not totally satisfied, and so I am not totally devoid of hope, even by Mr. Houston's standards. 
7 years, 7 days on my journey; a lifetime to follow.
-Al-
6 '3" 239.5/208.0/197.5±2.5/BMI:26.00/WK-375
Starting weight: 239.5
Target Weight Range: 195 lbs to 200 lbs
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