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So close, yet so far…

Weight: I’m a pound lighter today than I was last Monday. I managed to lose a ~lot~ of weight at the beginning of the week (5.5 pounds by Saturday morning!), and managed to gain most of it (4.5 pounds) back by this morning. So I was, briefly, below 180 pounds. I even managed to lose weight between Friday and Saturday, despite eating nachos and pie for dinner. I’m attributing my success to the fact that neither stayed in my stomach for long, due to the inclusion of seven various shots of liquor and eight or more glasses of beer while eating said nummies. It’s a good thing my birthday only comes around once a year.

Exercise: I was good at the beginning of the week, worse later on. I managed 90 minutes swimming, 70 minutes jogging, and around 200 minutes walking for exercise last week, or around 50 minutes of exercise in some form per day. I jogged a 5k in just over 30 minutes, which had me feeling pretty good. My plan is to start adding longer distances back in to my routine: I hadn’t noticed, but I’d fallen into a pattern of shorter distances at higher speeds, and really, that’s not as good for me in terms of weight loss as is slower and longer.

Intake: Hoo boy. It really depends on my estimates, which weren’t great. The lowest number is 920 calories on Friday, but that’s assuming I correctly calculated how many calories I consumed, and then correctly calculated how many of those calories came back up later on. I’ve averaged around 1800 calories/day for the last three days, assuming my fast food guestimations are accurate. I’m not sure they are.

My spreadsheet estimates that I have around three weeks of dieting left until I hit 175 pounds. I’d say it’s probably pretty close. And even if I hit it before then, it’ll take a few days/weeks of playing around with food before I figure out how much I can eat in a day without gaining or losing weight.