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Post 2100
- 7 years and 183 days since I started this blog -
- 7 years and 183 days since I started this blog -
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Seven years ago I reached my goal weight.
On January 1, 2011, I weighed in at two-hundred and fifty-three pounds. I started writing this blog, which was, at that time, daily. I went on the diet described in 'The 4-Hour Body: Protein, vegetables and beans at every meal, six days a week, one day a week, no rules (Cheat Day).
Six months later, on July 2, 2011, I weighed in at two hundred pounds. In six months, I had lost more than 20% of my body weight. Easily, more or less.
The big deal is that I have kept that weight off, more or less, in the seven years since.
In my opinion, that is the accomplishment.
The motivation was medical. I had been diagnosed with Type-2 Diabetes, and my options were to control it by diet, including losing a great amount of weight, or manage it by drugs. I chose the former.
It is difficult to untangle all the threads in the knot of my life since then, but it seems to me that my present happiness is based on two things: Joining a band, I am Fool, at nearly the same time as my diagnosis was made; and the decision I made to lose the weight and manage my illness with food.
Those decisions were preceded by a decision to be happy, made after being laid off from the job that brought me to Syracuse thirteen months earlier, a decision that came about a few months before the diagnosis and becoming a Fool.
So, three things (nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition).
Here we are, eighteen hundred-and-something blog posts later, seven years later, and my weight is over goal weight by less than five percent (after a particularly off-plan, celebratory, eating-out at crappy restaurants with my bandmates and drinking whiskey weekend) - but a week ago it was right there! That's a bit of success.
I'm Happy.
I have so much to be grateful for - but right now I'd just like to say thank you to my seven-and-a-half-years-ago self for making some good decisions I reap the rewards of every day now.
This is the anniversary of a goal reached, of a plan executed successfully (although not exactly as planned). It is the anniversary of another re-invention of my self, the anniversary of a successful first step.
That's the guy whose happiness and peace of mind serves me regularly.
I'm grateful for the love I feel with the people in my life - it's really the reason I keep showing up.
Today's Weight: 208.5 lbs.
Previous Weight (6/29/18): 201.9 lbs.
On January 1, 2011, I weighed in at two-hundred and fifty-three pounds. I started writing this blog, which was, at that time, daily. I went on the diet described in 'The 4-Hour Body: Protein, vegetables and beans at every meal, six days a week, one day a week, no rules (Cheat Day).
Six months later, on July 2, 2011, I weighed in at two hundred pounds. In six months, I had lost more than 20% of my body weight. Easily, more or less.
The big deal is that I have kept that weight off, more or less, in the seven years since.
In my opinion, that is the accomplishment.
The motivation was medical. I had been diagnosed with Type-2 Diabetes, and my options were to control it by diet, including losing a great amount of weight, or manage it by drugs. I chose the former.
It is difficult to untangle all the threads in the knot of my life since then, but it seems to me that my present happiness is based on two things: Joining a band, I am Fool, at nearly the same time as my diagnosis was made; and the decision I made to lose the weight and manage my illness with food.
Those decisions were preceded by a decision to be happy, made after being laid off from the job that brought me to Syracuse thirteen months earlier, a decision that came about a few months before the diagnosis and becoming a Fool.
So, three things (nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition).
Here we are, eighteen hundred-and-something blog posts later, seven years later, and my weight is over goal weight by less than five percent (after a particularly off-plan, celebratory, eating-out at crappy restaurants with my bandmates and drinking whiskey weekend) - but a week ago it was right there! That's a bit of success.
I'm Happy.
I have so much to be grateful for - but right now I'd just like to say thank you to my seven-and-a-half-years-ago self for making some good decisions I reap the rewards of every day now.
This is the anniversary of a goal reached, of a plan executed successfully (although not exactly as planned). It is the anniversary of another re-invention of my self, the anniversary of a successful first step.
That's the guy whose happiness and peace of mind serves me regularly.
I'm grateful for the love I feel with the people in my life - it's really the reason I keep showing up.
Food and Diet
Net Loss/Gain: + 6.6 lbs.
Diet Comment
I had a heck of a weekend, beginning Friday night with post-gig celebrating, continuing Saturday with post-gig celebrating, and on into Sunday good fun jamming celebrating. I ate badly all the way. I'll pay that tab this week, although there are, between now and next Monday, four more gigs to celebrate... None of which will happen at CoreLife, unfortunately.
Food Log
Breakfast
4:30pm: Home-made almond milk and a Quest bar.
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
10:50pm: Chopped salad: Sriracha chicken, shaved parmesan, walnuts, Chard, spinach, kale and cabbage, and home-made mayonnaise. And a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
4:30pm: Home-made almond milk and a Quest bar.
Lunch
Skipped.
Dinner
10:50pm: Chopped salad: Sriracha chicken, shaved parmesan, walnuts, Chard, spinach, kale and cabbage, and home-made mayonnaise. And a Quest bar.
Liquid Intake
Espressos: 1; Coffee: 12 oz.; Tea: 0 oz.; Water: 64+ oz. and a mighty glass of Jack Daniels on the rocks.
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