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I have achieved the improbable and lost weight over the course of the month. Not a lot of weight, but some, so hooray.Here are the stats:

April 1: 166.3 pounds
April 30: 165.2 pounds

I weighed 165.9 pounds on January 1, so my total weight loss for the year is 0.7 pounds. It’s not exactly melting off. 😛

I’m starting to run more, walk at lunch (weather permitting, which has generally been horrible ALL YEAR SO FAR) and am working to cut down on snacks (no more chips in the house, at least).

Maybe by the end of May, I will have lost an entire pound from the start of the year. A boy can dream.

The good news is that unlike February, where I gained 2.2 pounds over the course of the (short) month, in March (a longer month) I only gained 0.6 pounds.

The bad news is I still gained weight, which is not a good way to lose weight.

Here are the stats:

March 1: 166.4 pounds
March 31: 167 pounds

And February’s by comparison:

February 1: 163.6 pounds
February 28: 165.8 pounds

The worst news is that in a little less than two months I’ve gone from 163.6 to 167 pounds, an increase of 3.4 pounds. Ugh.

It looks better (?) if you compare from January 1:

January 1: 165.9 pounds
March 31: 167 pounds

The difference there is a “mere” 1.1 pounds.

In any case, I need to get off my butt and start running more, doing my walks at lunch and purging the household of all snacks except for water and celery sticks, which is just green water in solid form.

Onward to April!

How goes my goal of getting to 145 pounds at two months into the year? Let’s have a look at the past month:

February 1: 163.6 pounds
February 28: 165.8 pounds

Weight loss gain: +2.2 pounds

Whoops.

I was 165.9 pounds on January 1, so my total weight loss for the year-to-date is:

0.1 pounds

It’s impressive in a way.

On the plus side (that’s a weight loss joke), my body fat percentage has changed in a more positive way:

January 1: 19.1%
February 28: 18.3%

Body fat percentage change: 0.8%

Also on a positive note, I met one-half of my January goals by going donut-free for the entire month, no minor feat given that donuts were present throughout the month in plentiful quantities.

My goal for March is to have actual weight loss with less body fat, too. I get three extra days to accomplish this vs. February, so there’s that, too.

I was down an even two pounds today, dropping from 167.3 to 165.3. Even though I had no real snacks yesterday, this still surprised me. But it is encouraging.

Today I was bad and ate an apple strudel but was sufficiently guilty afterward to go out and do my first 5K in over four months, so it kind of worked out in the end. Not snacking is not easy but I’ve compensated for the strudel incident, behaved since returning from my run, and am fairly sure I’ll make it to bed without eating an entire cake.

Weight: 165.3 pounds -2.0
Body fat: 19.5%

Good news: With the Christmas break only two work days away, I will no longer be tempted by (and indulge in) assorted calorie-rich goodies regularly dropped off at work

Bad news: After going up by a pound following a workplace potluck yesterday, I indulged again today and expect to be up yet again tomorrow, erasing my meager progress. But from tomorrow forward, it’s all downhill. In a good way.

I hope.

Weight: 167.7 pounds +1
Body fat: 19.4%

Down again today, this time 0.6 pounds to 166.8 pounds. I resisted Ferraro Rocher and donuts. Go me.

I had a muffin. Boo me.

I walked enough to burn off the muffin. Go me.

Weight: 166.8 pounds -0.6
Body fat: 19.3%

Down 1.1 pounds from yesterday, which is at least in the right direction. I just need to repeat today 16 more times.

The urge to snack remains strong but has diminished slightly.

Overall, some mild progress, which is good enough for now.

Weight: 167.4 pounds -1.1
Body fat: 19.4%

As expected, weighing myself much earlier today (around the usual weekday weigh-in time of 6 a.m. vs. 10 a.m. on the weekend) meant my weight was up. By 2.2 pounds. Egad.

On a more positive and less blimp-like note, yet another box of chocolates was passed around at work today and instead of gobbling a bunch as has become my standard response when offered, I took none. I wanted a big fat serving of poutine for lunch but instead only had a Clif bar. I wanted donuts. Lots of donuts. But resisted. Hopefully I can continue this trend.

Weight: 168.5 pounds +2.2
Body fat: 19.3% —

Good news: I’ve stopped my weight from ballooning out of control like some out of control balloon. I’ve dropped from a peak of 167.3 pounds and leveled off at 166.3.

Bad news: The body fat percentage continues to creep upward. It’s now at 19.3%. This wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t normally a skinny guy. But I am normally a skinny guy and the tire developing around my gut is resplendent and awful.

Fortunately (?) I’ll probably be too busy this week to do much snacking, even if I wanted to (and to be perfectly honest, I still want to because I haven’t gotten to the point where I’ve curbed my appetite yet).

Weight: 166.3 pounds
Body fat: 19.3%