Mini plateau

These things happen. It sucks when you're in the middle of one, but they happen. 5 days ago I was the same weight as I am today. 

And you know what? I'm not even sad. Because I can see how it is working in other ways. Especially the fit of my clothes. So it's all good. 

So I'm still 1.6 pounds away from the 270's, but I'm on my way. It will happen, and probably sooner rather than later. 

The life of a Software Engineer

My computer is acting up. It won't finish rebooting. So with nothing else to do for the moment, I thought I'd write a post from my phone. 

I appear to be, for now, an all-or-nothing kind of guy. I can either go strict and lose weight, or I'm an all-out all-you-can-stuff-in-the-pie-hole type of guy. This sort of disturbs me. It says some things about my issues with food that frankly I don't really want to think about. And yet, I know that eventually I will. 

What does it mean long-term if I have truly serious addictions to food? What am I going to have to do/change/be to not let that particular demon take charge again?

I'm not yet ready to face it. But I know that I will have to. Soon I will start working on it. 

The steady process.

I had initially typed "the long, slow process." But I like the word steady better. It implies, at least to me, a slower process, but the steadiness also implies long term consistency. That's what I'm shooting for here.

I'm feeling a bit at peace right now in regards to weight. I don't often feel this much peace about it, so I will take it when I can get it.

Boss took us out to lunch today for my 4 year anniversary here at work. It was nice. I did get to choose, so we went to a soup/salad/sandwich place. I ended up getting out of there for about 600 calories. Feeling pretty good about it.

Nothing to earth shattering. Just slow, consistent work.

On the right path again.

Finally.

Official weigh in

Today is the official diet bet first month weigh in. Here it is:

I am pretty pleased with it. I had to be at least 3% down. This is about 5%.

Not bad. Here's to winning next month as well!

Feeling chatty today.

Also feeling a bit hungry, but as I've posted recently, that's no surprise.

I turned down a donut today. I don't feel bad about this. I didn't need it, I didn't want it. That is to say that to me, today, it was worth more for me to NOT eat the donut than to have the sugar rush. In fact, without sugar for about a month now, I'm kind of thinking that it would be too sweet.

It's not about the donut.

I took my family out for ice cream last night. I didn't have any. Again, I didn't need it, I didn't want it.

That's not true. Last night I wanted it. But it was still worth more to me to NOT eat it than to eat it.

I don't know what sort of balance I'm going to end up walking. Might I cut out sugar forever? It's very possible. I don't know. But I do know that sugar is a big problem for me.

More pondering to be done.

Workout successful.

Did 3 miles on a treadmill. I find that I'm able to watch my iPad while running. Right now I'm going through the entire X-Files series as I run. Walk. Plod slowly. Whatever.

I got a good sweat going but didn't push too hard. I'm happy with it.

Side note - I have a Fitbit Surge, but there is something wrong with the charging port. It won't charge at all. The good news is that it is within warranty, and they are sending me a new one. It should get here early next week. So while I have to wait, I'm going to be happy to have more information again about what my calorie output is.

But until then, I'll just have to enter exercise manually.

Until tomorrow...

Time to get some exercise.

The workout didn't happen yesterday. Turns out I left my gym bag at home. That doesn't help when I want to get some momentum going.

For today, then, I made sure as I left the house that I had everything that I'm going to need for today. At 11:00 I'm heading out. We'll see how it goes.

As for loss, down even further this morning. I'm somewhere between 7-8 pounds below where I needed to be for the dietbet weigh-in tomorrow. I'm not sure it would even be possible to weigh too much tomorrow. Without water loading or something.

Still - tomorrow's weigh-in is NOT the end goal. It's the first in what I am hoping turns into a very long series of successes.

Work is calling...