Weight Loss VII: Week 13
90 days! I hit the 90 day mark yesterday. It's been a pretty monumental week. I completed the conversion from contractor to full time at Apple, so now I'm an employee. I'm going to have my tonsillectomy tomorrow. I can't have ibuprofen or alcohol right now, though I slipped and forgot about a week ago and had a glass of wine. Whoops. Oh well.
I didn't lose any weight last week; in fact, I'm up about 2.5 pounds. That's in part because for the last few days I've basically suspended dieting, because tomorrow I have surgery and I don't want my body to be in a calorie deficit when that happens, because that could slow the healing process. So the diet will remain suspended for at least a week past the surgery.
That said, it may be difficult for me to actually eat much, so while suspended I may be dieting anyway.
In terms of progress, I'm down around 36 pounds (I guess back up 2.5 makes it much harder to say 'almost 40' like I could at 38.5), pants are still looser, but I still feel pretty overweight. And, I mean, I am. I'm still 90+ pounds away from my target weight, (though honestly I imagine I'd be fairly comfortable at 200, I picked my target weight because it is the top end of the BMI scale and it seems like a smart place to angle toward). My pants are looser but they're still big pants. My shirts are looser but I still wear a size with more than one X in it.
In other words, I still have a long way to go.
Right now my focus is to get through the healing process on the surgery, and then once again go back through the ramp up and get myself back on track.
If I can do that, then it is not unreasonable to be down around 245 pounds by New Year's. So that's my medium term goal. 245 pounds is where I was when I fell off Weight Watchers in 2006. It would be a good Christmas present to myself. It's also more or less the halfway point toward my goal.
That, of course, and not freaking out about undergoing surgery tomorrow. I suspect I will not sleep much tonight.
I didn't lose any weight last week; in fact, I'm up about 2.5 pounds. That's in part because for the last few days I've basically suspended dieting, because tomorrow I have surgery and I don't want my body to be in a calorie deficit when that happens, because that could slow the healing process. So the diet will remain suspended for at least a week past the surgery.
That said, it may be difficult for me to actually eat much, so while suspended I may be dieting anyway.
In terms of progress, I'm down around 36 pounds (I guess back up 2.5 makes it much harder to say 'almost 40' like I could at 38.5), pants are still looser, but I still feel pretty overweight. And, I mean, I am. I'm still 90+ pounds away from my target weight, (though honestly I imagine I'd be fairly comfortable at 200, I picked my target weight because it is the top end of the BMI scale and it seems like a smart place to angle toward). My pants are looser but they're still big pants. My shirts are looser but I still wear a size with more than one X in it.
In other words, I still have a long way to go.
Right now my focus is to get through the healing process on the surgery, and then once again go back through the ramp up and get myself back on track.
If I can do that, then it is not unreasonable to be down around 245 pounds by New Year's. So that's my medium term goal. 245 pounds is where I was when I fell off Weight Watchers in 2006. It would be a good Christmas present to myself. It's also more or less the halfway point toward my goal.
That, of course, and not freaking out about undergoing surgery tomorrow. I suspect I will not sleep much tonight.