End of Month 10

Day 0: 303.6
End of Month 10: 234.2
Lost 69.4 lbs

After ten months, I've lost about seventy pounds. I can't really say that I've achieved my goal because I never really had one, but I'm happy with where I am.

End of Week 43

Day 0: 303.6
End of Week 42: 232.6
End of Week 43: 234.6
Lost 69.0 lbs

After the first week of "maintain-your-weight", I picked up a pair of pounds. *shrug* I don't expect to stay exactly where I was. I just need to hover around where I'm at. Seems okay for now.

Day 295

What I did:

• Celebrated the end of the diet by eating a bunch of junk at Chili's. It's okay, though, because my fantastic wife was with me. I don't know how that makes it okay, but it does.

End of Week 42

Day 0: 303.6
End of Week 40: 233.6
End of Week 42: 232.6
Lost 71.0 lbs

I missed last week due to a dead battery in my bathroom scale. Here we are again, though. I've decided that my weight is at a pretty good place. I feel much better about myself, both physically and emotionally. I'm going to change my calorie counter goal to maintain my current weight, rather than "lose 1.5 lbs per week".

I started running again this week. My goal for that is to be able to run all the way around my block--one-half mile--without stopping. I hope to achieve that by next Monday. So far, I can get about 0.4 miles without stopping. My whole mile takes about 12 minutes, which I think is pretty good, considering that I'm so out of shape.

Day 294

What I did:

• Walked/jogged 1 mile in about 12 minutes

Day 293

What I did:

• Had a nice Father's Day with my family

Day 292

What I did:

• Mowed the lawn in the morning

Day 291

What I did:

• Walked/jogged 1 mile in about 12 minutes

Day 290

What I did:

• Took my new deck to Commander night. I made a lot of plays that didn't actually end up doing anything. I think I need to look into some more win conditions for it.

Day 289

What I did:

• Jogged/ran 1 mile in 12 minutes

Day 288

What I did:

• Walked/jogged 1 mile in about 12 minutes

Day 287

What I did:

• Mopped the kitchen floor
• Walked/jogged 1 mile in about 12 minutes. About half of the distance was jogging, I think.
• Bought new pants. The waist is 38"!

Day 286

What I did:

• Put together a surprise for my fantastic wife. I can't get into more details, in case she reads this...

Day 285

What I did:

• Had a lazy, quiet Saturday. Not much of any importance happened. I probably shouldn't have gone to Taco Bell for dinner, though...

Day 284

What I did:

• Saw Jurassic World. I enjoyed it, but it was essentially Jurassic Park with a different cast and a slightly different story. I may have gotten some dust in my eye the first time that the classic theme song played...

Day 283

What I did:

• Took my new deck to Commander night. It has a pretty good showing, winning a four-player game and a two-player game, though I should have lost the two-player game. My opponent got greedy and was unable to deal with my stuff, so I won, quite literally out of nowhere. I attacked for over 300 damage...

Day 282

What I did:

• Survived about six hours of code reviews. Normally, I enjoy reviewing code, but this time, it wasn't really code, just updating descriptions. About 2000 times. I'm not done, yet, either... We divided the total by seven, splitting the work among several developers (yes, seven of them). Three of them have been reviewed. I'm not looking forward to tomorrow...

Day 281

What I did:

• Put my fantastic wife on a plane to Oregon. She'll be gone for a week. I miss her already...

End of Week 40

Day 0: 303.6
End of Week 39: 230.8
End of Week 40: 233.6
Lost 70 lbs

Here we are, again. Another week, another weigh-in. And that's all I have to say about that.

Day 280

What I did:

• Experienced day 1 with interns. I honestly don't remember what it was like to know 0 about the company. Nor bragging or anything like that. My first day with this company was about ten years ago.

Day 279

What I did:

• Attended the wedding dinner for one of my amazing wife's childhood friends

Day 278

What I did:

• Had a bacon double cheeseburger for lunch and pepperoni pizza for dinner. I knew it was bad for the diet, but today, I just didn't care. I really wanted that cheeseburger!

Day 277

What I did:

• Went horseback riding with my beautiful wife. Horses have always been her passion, so I was excited when I found a place that had an early evening ride. It was a nice ride, even though my horse recognized my n00b status. Nothing scary happened. She was just slow and plodding.

Day 276

What I did:

• Took on a little extra responsibility at work today by helping to manage a team of interns for the next week

Day 275

What I did:

• Stared at my computer screen for about 30 minutes while it did nothing. Good times.

Day 274

What I did:

• Made up something really clever to write here, but forgot what it was

End of Week 39

Day 0: 303.6
End of Week 38: 235.4
End of Week 39: 230.8
Lost 72.8 lbs

I don't have much to say about today's weigh-in, since I just did it yesterday.  This one is mostly just to keep up the habit.  Yay for weigh-in!

Day 273

What I did:

• Remembered that I have a four-pound bucket of Red Vines in my desk drawer, then spent 0 minutes at my desk for the rest of the day