Yes, I did some snacking yesterday and shamefully did not post. But I was also down one pound this morning, which is both weird and good.
I’ve been better so far today. I had a piece of fruit!
More later. And now a haiku on the U.S. election:
In Which America Reveals It Has Lost Its Mind and is OK With That The U.S. voted Sixty-three million for Trump Burn everything down
Pretty much the same as yesterday snack-wise, so I won’t repeat the full list here. I was a little more active. We’ll see if the scale screams in the morning. I was down 0.4 pounds today, which was nice.
I suspect the snacking will diminish as the week progresses. Really!
Today’s haiku (about National Novel Writing Month, about which I will write more soon) is below.
50,000 words or less Write a short novel You have twenty-eight days now Do this? Good fiction.
Although the blog posts make for dull reading, it seems that doing a daily check-in on my snacking helps curb it and not doing a daily check-in results in snacking and plenty of it.
So I am back with the daily check-in. I will either try to spice things up by adding a haiku to each, for example, or move the check-ins to a journal program that no one else can see and is thus spared from. I will decide soon.
For today, not an auspicious start but it could have been worse (the brownies are now gone). The snack total:
Tomorrow I will try to go snack-free again, for real. For sure.
Haiku:
The Evil That Snacks Do They fatten your hips And everything else as well Yummy snacks are bad
The main thing is it could have been worse.
I was trending under 170 pounds for most of the month (yay) but in the last week I decided to bake some brownies (uh oh). I have absolutely no self-control when it comes to brownies. This is now established fact.
My weight edged up past 170 pounds. Then it kept edging higher and higher. Fortunately it dipped a bit today, but I still gained nearly three pounds for the month. Ay caramba!
But! Total weight gain for the year is only 0.6 pounds, which is almost a rounding error. This is good. Better still, my body fat has taken a turn for the better, dropping significantly for the first time in a good while, 2.3 pounds worth this month and down by 1.7% as a percentage. Fitbit still classified me as “overweight” for the last three days of the month, but these were The Bad Brownie Days.
I vow no brownies next month and to not just drop below 170, but to get to at least 165 pounds. Yep!
Stats:
October 1: 169.5 pounds October 31: 172.4 pounds (up 2.9 pounds) Year to date: From 171.8 to 172.4 pounds (up 0.6 pounds) And the body fat: October 1: 22.2% (37.7 pounds of fat) October 31: 20.5% (35.4 pounds of fat) (down 2.3 pounds)
I have been pretty good on the snacking so far this month, with only a few crackers here and there, no giant sacks of donuts or triple layer cakes or anything.
We still have brownie mix in the pantry, though. Dun dun dun.
But the best news is that for four of five days so far in October I have been below 170 pounds. Yay. I am now reasonably confident I can end the month below 170 and keep pushing to my next intermediate goal of 160 pounds. Go lighter me!
I had breakfast, lunch and dinner, with no snacking (lunch included a Clif Bar, which I now always regret later . Sorry, Clif Bar people, it’s me, not you!)
As expected, I was up again, slightly, to 170.4 pounds. We’ll see if I balloon again in weight overnight and set myself with an easier challenge to lose weight for October.
As mentioned in the September 2020 weight loss report, I’ll be switching the frequency of these updates to weekly, monthly or never. I haven’t decided yet. The important part is the snack-free-ing will continue regardless.
While this month’s weight loss was more modest than August (1.4 pounds vs. 2.0 pounds), it marks a couple of important milestones:
The last one is especially noteworthy. After switching up my weight loss plan about six weeks ago, I have for the first time ended a month at a weight lower than I started at this year. This bodes well for the future.
I remained donut-free.
Going forward, I may ease up on the official snack-free reports. On the one hand, it keeps me honest. On the other, it’s not exciting stuff to read, even for me. I can’t imagine another person or some scraping bot suffering through these every day. I’ll either do the updates elsewhere (“Dear Diary…”) or switch to a lower frequency for updates like once a week.
I am encouraged by these efforts and shall continue to work on getting closer to the thinner (but not Stephen King Thinner) version of me.
The stats:
September 1: 171.8 pounds
September 30: 170.4 pounds (down 1.4 pounds)
Year to date: From 171.8 to 170.4 pounds (down 1.4 pounds)
And the body fat:
September 1: 22.6% (38.9 pounds of fat)
September 30: 22.4% (38.1 pounds of fat) down 0.7 pounds)
Here is today’s cheatin’ list:
Other than that, I behaved and did my post-work exercise again.
I was up slightly this morning, to 170.1 pounds, so my time spent below 170 was again confined to one brief but glorious day. I will predict that for tomorrow, the last day of the month, I will be up again slightly, but will be delighted and pleasantly surprised if I dip below 170 again.
Today was the same as yesterday, with the only snack being some trail mix. Maybe a tad more than needed. Maybe.
On the positive side, I reversed the mini wight gain trend and dipped below 170 pounds for only the second time in months, coming in at 169.7 pounds. Woo.
It was a good day for cheating. I mean, good in the sense that there was no cheating, save for another small serving of trail mix. I even had pizza and saved some for leftovers.
And I exercised today, with running and all that.
I was up yet again, though (scream emoji here), but only by 0.1 pounds (eyeroll emoji here), to 171.6 pounds. I’m hoping to resume the downward trend in weight tomorrow, but am not predicting it.
A good day today, though I did have a small snack–a fruit/nut trail mix. But this is actually healthy food, although a bit calorie-rich when consumed in massive quantities. So I stuck to a small quantity.
I was up again, by 0.4 pounds, to 171.5 pounds.
I again make no predictions about tomorrow. I met all of my activity goals today but only did an official™ 15 minute walk, so exercise was minimal. But I cleaned and stuff, so that counts for something. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
So it sort of balances out.
First, my list of shame:
On the plus side, I also did my first walk/run in a week. Go me!
On the plus plus side (the fat side), I was up in weight, as predicted, by exactly one pound, to 171.1 pounds.
I have no prediction for tomorrow.