September 18, 2021
Hello,
It’s been almost nine months since I’ve written here. Some of what I’ll write today will reiterate points I’ve made in the past. I’m O.K. with that because I think that weight loss is pretty straightforward stuff but requires a lot of reinforcement.
I weighed 185.5 on the day I wrote my Seventh Entry and this morning I weighed 174. I’ve been as low as 171 on two other mornings over the summer. I’ve eaten a lot today so I’ll probably be up a bit more tomorrow. Oh, well.
Covid hasn’t had much effect on my progress. I’m retired and I suspect that my daily routine was disrupted by the lockdowns a lot less than the routines of working people or students. I haven’t noticed any increase in stress eating over the past year and a half or so.
I’ve probably mentioned in earlier entries that I started making this most recent effort to lose weight on New Year’s Day 2011. I peaked at 265.5 a few days later. I’ve meandered around on the way down but a graph of my progress would show weight loss every year from then until now with one exception. The exception took place in 2016. I’ve had heart problems, retired on February 1, 2016 at the age of 67, and spent most of 2016 resting and regaining my strength. I gained eight pounds that year.
Obviously, I am a big believer in the idea of gradual loss rather than crash diets. I suppose that my idea of a crash diet would be one which aims for losses of a pound per week or more. My personal target is one pound per month and I’ve actually managed only about eight or nine pounds per year. Notice, though, that in 2021, my 11th year of weigh loss, I’ve managed to lose more than 10 pounds to date without any real sacrifice. I almost never go to bed fighting the urge to have a snack first.
The beauty of such slow loss is that it’s pretty easy to sustain. I believe that that is more important than a lot of weight reduction in a short period of time. I should add here that I’ve lost substantial amounts of weight on three occasions earlier in my life and regained all of it and more each time.
See you next time.
Shedding the Lbs. 