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After a two week trip where I ate whatever I wanted without concern for health, I weighed in this morning at 215 pounds.  While the unfettered eating was certainly enjoyable, five pounds in two weeks feels like a pretty big hit given how long it took me to lose it.  I don't think I've pushed myself very hard with the previous diet so I'm going to ( Read more... )

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There is a challenge going around where you try to describe all of your relationships with a single sentence each.  I thought it would be interesting to try, and included both romantic and non-romantic relationships.  They were thought up in a certain order, but have been shuffled before being posted here ( Read more... )

I've managed to keep to my experimental diet, and weighed in this morning at 213 pounds.  That is 7 pounds down from my April 8th weigh in.  If I can keep at this for the remaining period (about a month) I have a good chance of breaking another restriction I'd placed on myself ( Read more... )

So my last experiment was living for an extend period on a very limited budget.  It was a success in that I was able to stay within the budget, despite the increase in difficulty for even day-to-day activities that resulted.  It wasn't fun, but it was informative and I was able to prove to myself that my limits lie beyond that threshold ( Read more... )

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done ( Read more... )

I'm home a bit early to console myself with some ice cream before I eat lunch and head back into work.  I've just finished by performance review meeting with my manager where he told me he rated me 2,2 for the year.  To clarify, the scale is 1 for "does not meet expectations, 2 for "meets and occasionally exceeds expectations", 3 for "consistently ( Read more... )

Anna: So you're just going to throw them to the wolves ( Read more... )

A while ago I mentioned that I was trying a willpower experiment to see what it would be like to live off of a $30 per week food and entertainment budget for about 15 weeks.  Assuming three meals a day and no entertainment, that is $1.40 per meal for three and a half months.  As of today I have 65 days remaining.  I spent more initially than I ( Read more... )