About this Blog

So many people wish they could lose weight. This blog is an attempt to put together something to share about my experience. I started January of 2012 at 232 lbs and I had been trying to lose weight, probably shaving 5 lbs off my maximum, which would have been closer to 235. My last measurement showed a mere 160.4 lbs. The means over the last year I would have lost 75 lbs. In the picture from the summer of 2012 I weigh 175. I would love to get down to the 150 to 155 range over the next year. Why so slim? Mostly because if its worth doing its worth doing well. But also because arteriosclerosis runs thick in my family and if I can live at an ideal weight of course I should. I'm also fully content to live life at 160 if that's how it is to be, but I think its worth a try. This blog lets you join the adventure!

The main thing was I just decided I'm in charge of my own weight. Policitians and actors do it. Why not me? Do I just did. No hocus-pocus. No hormones or any kind of pill. No extreme behavior, diets or fasting. No worries about mysterious toxins. Just a series of straight-up, science-based strategies.

That why I think I have something to share. I can weigh whatever I want. Although I take what I know from science, I don't have access to scholarly libraries or time to do full scholarship on what I put here. I don't claim to have all the science right. If you know something I should know, add in a comment. This blog is a work in progress, I will keep editing the pages as I get ideas, insight and feedback.

All my best -- Rob

 

 

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Final Report, Year 1

Hi Folks, its time to report on progress. My last average weight over 3 days was 160.2 and my lowest one-time measurement was 159.4. I would like to have kept going for another week, but alas I'm out of time. It appears now that my weight is going to be maintained at 160 lbs. I'm finding it very hard to lose weight now. I've been in full diet mode for a week to meet my goal. That's not good. I'm setting 160 as my new normal weight. We'll see what happens now. I've lost 75 lbs over a year, but most of it  in the first 6 months. It may however be that 160 is the lowest I can practically go with only light physical activity and that to be anywhere less means hours in a gym, which I'm not willing to do.

I'm on holidays from work now, there's a special social event this afternoon, a special meal this evening, packing up on Sunday and a road trip with beer and burgers on the way. One of the benefits of being able to control my weight is, however, that I have the freedom to indulge because I know I can lose the weight again. So I expect to put on 5 or 6 lbs over the next three weeks and do so guilt free. I will not be tracking my weight for three weeks, and then I will start once more.

My next goal is to gain the ability to lose weight extremely slowly. This is very challenging because its like driving with a loose steering wheel. You don't really know the effect of your choices for some time. An accurate scale would help. I don't trust the one I have beyond +/- a full pound. The other one I have seems worse (it was cheap). I might by a third, but what to buy? I'm considering weighing myself on all three and averaging them. Or I could do like NASA does, make it a vote. You average the closest two and discard the outlier.

Starting January 7th, I would like to start by losing what I gained over the break at the rate of about 1 lb a week to a weight of 160 lbs. Then I plan to try to start a new graph with a goal to lose only a pound a month. So projecting, I'll give myself 6 weeks until the end of February to get back to 160. Then over four months I'll see if I can drop town to 156.0 lbs. That brings me to the centre of the healthy range for my height.



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