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Because it occupies a nearly unhealthy portion of my thoughts, here’s an update on how my diet is going so far (Monday morning the 4th - Monday morning the 11th):

• I lost a total of 4.5 pounds (205 - 200.5). My weight loss has slowed from earlier in the week, which could be because I’m just hitting my average loss rates now, or possibly because I’m gaining muscle. Either way, I should be under 200 pounds some time this week, for the first time in a couple of years.
• I consumed an average of roughly 1600 calories per day, which combined with my estimated resting metabolic rate (~2300) and my average additional exercise burning ~600 calories/day, gives me around a 1300 calorie daily deficit, or right around what I was shooting for.
• My spreadsheet is still really cool.
• I burned over 2300 calories using Dance Dance Revolution alone, although I’m currently a little bored/frustrated with it (it doesn’t always work right). So I jogged 6 miles in the last two days to compensate.
• I walked the dog over 9 miles last week. Luckily for both of us, it wasn’t all at once.

So yeah, I’m a little weight- and diet-obsessed. Part of that is because I’m a little hungrier than usual (need a more fibrous diet, I guess), and part of it is my spreadsheet: when I have all of this statistical information at my fingertips, it’s tough ~not~ to check it out and add it up. ;)

In only slightly related news, last night Amanda and I got a membership at Des Moines’ Central Campus to use their pool and weight areas. Between splitting the cost in half (we have a family membership) and August Home picking up half the tab, it’s an extraordinarily cheap way to gain access to a pool, and thus, a new form of exercise. I’m planning on heading to the pool after work tonight for my inaugural swim.

After my swim, I’m going to be heading north for a little Mandate action (or a MANage-a-trois as Scott and I have started calling it) with Quinn and Scott, meaning Amanda is stuck taking Miles to his obedience class by her lonesome this week. I think the plan is to barbeque at Scott’s place, hang out for a while catching up, and then watch a hypermasculine movie at the dollar theater. The current plan is to see Shooter. And let’s face it: nothing says hypermasculine like Marky Mark.

The rest of the week is shaped thusly: Wednesday night I start my Spanish class with AnneJanotta. Thurday night, Amanda’s playing sand volleyball and I plan to get in another swim and mow the lawn. Amanda will be gone most of Friday on a business-type trip in Kansas City, so I’ll be self-entertaining. Saturday, we’re going to a barbeque at Lindsay Rees’ place. And Sunday, we’re hoping to celebrate our six-month anniversary, eight days belated (Amanda spent last weekend in Minnesota with her parents, so I spent it hanging out with all of her friends instead). :)