Weighing in this morning at a svelte (sarcasm) 217.0 pounds (a statistically insignificant [well within the range of fluctuation] negative change of 0.8 pounds from five weeks ago), I'm recharged and feel ready to crash through a brick wall... with my head. I'm disappointed that I didn't lose any weight over the past five weeks, but I'm extremely excited that I didn't gain any. I didn't count calories; I just used common sense and followed the principle of, "If you want to be small, order small." I learned that I know how to maintain my weight while on vacation. Now it's time to get back to losing weight each and every week, starting now. Daily calorie totals will be posted here with weekly weigh-ins occurring on Wednesdays, just as they did previously.
The thing that changes now is I'm starting from scratch. I'm no longer claiming a 15-pound loss. I'm claiming a zero pound loss and we're starting from 217.0. I would like to use 52 pounds within the next nine months. My previous goal was 175, but considering that 15 pounds didn't change my look at all, I'm not sure that 40 more pounds will change my look completely. So, I'm going for 50 (52).
So, I weigh 217 pounds, and I would like to weigh 165 by July of next year. The magic number? 1.3 pounds/week. NIH tells me to aim for 2,050 calories/day, but I will shoot for less than that.
