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Well, as you can see, the last couple weeks haven't been great. I'm over enough that it's time to give myself another 3 pound easement for next week. To make myself feel better, I've included the long-term graph since I've been using the spreadsheet. When things aren't going well, it's comforting to see that the long-term trend is still in the right direction, and that this is just another bump on the road.
After a great time off with the family, I jumped into a couple *very* stressful weeks at work, combined with some other personal stresses, and two weeks ago ended up falling back to some comfort eating, which due to my lack of that stuff in the house meant fast food. Argh.
The interesting thing is that for the past week I've made really good food choices, and done more exercise, but it doesn't seem to have reversed the previous week. I'm guessing it's the reaction of my body to the stress.
I've taken some steps to reduce the work stress. I talked to my boss yesterday, and decided that I'll be reducing my hours to 80% time (4 days a week), and told him I'd like to guarantee working at least one day a week on the project that I love, which gets me doing more programming. He agreed, and further said that he'd like to see me only have to work 2 days a week on the project I've been stressing about, so I might have at least 1/2 my time doing cool stuff I like. Obviously, the goal in the long term is to spend all of my time doing stuff I like!
I've just started reading a book called The Gabriel Method. The premise is that there are a number of things which can turn on the "FAT programs" in the body. One of these things is stress, which can be brought on by dieting (looks like famine to the body). It also looks at the non-physical reasons for obesity (emotional stress, body image, the believe that being fat protects you from ). We'll see if looking at that stuff helps.