I’ve made several allusions to my diet.
Well, vacation time is (almost) here, so the jig is up. I’m already in Panama on work, a few days in advance of Kel, Donna & the kids. No scale here so I’ve backed off the diet.
Actually, I gave up a bit this past weekend. I’m sure I’ve already recovered a couple pounds, but that was to be expected once I started eating again…
The chart below was taped to the mirror in our bathroom. I originally had a shorter time span. Once that time expired, I entered the recorded data into a spreadsheet and set up a new scale (and slightly lowered my target weight). That’s why half of the data is nice and neat and the other half is hand-written…
I have the blue dots, Kel the pink. (I’ve succumbed to stereotypes, I know…) I went from 222 pounds to 182 pounds - a loss of 40 pounds, or one entire Dyson! Or, for the other geeks, 18%!
Because I sometimes pretend to be a gentleman, I am not showing you Kel’s weight, either before or after. Just know that she is on a different scale (on the graph - we use the same bathroom scale). And know that she looks totally fabulous…
The missing days show time out of town - mostly business trips. As you can see, I was sometimes good even when going out to eat in restaurants every night…
It’s interesting to see the (sometimes extreme) fluctuation from day to day… (Some of the spikes upward are the day after brewing with Joe. Hmmm…)
Here’s what I currently look like (and I do mean CURRENTLY - that’s what I’m wearing while I type this. Why am I still wearing a coat and tie at this hour, when it’s clear that my customer decided he has better things to do than have dinner with a supplier?)
I’d like to get back to 175 - but that’s something I haven’t been in a whole lot of years. Kel is so sweet - she says that I’m TOO SKINNY! Isn’t that nice?
Of course, what she means is that I’m too SCRAWNY. Which isn’t as readily obvious when I have a nice layer of fat covering my bones… Once the moobs* are gone, my lack of chest is pretty clear…
*Man boobs
If only I could somehow stay away from the computer long enough to start exercising on a regular basis…
