Archive for April, 2007

Check-in: 320.5 (-15.3)

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Starting weight: 335.8
This week’s average: 320.5
Change this month: +8.8
Overall change: -15.3
Next milestone: 20 pounds gone (again)
Here’s how the damage ended up. I can’t really write anything more than this today, except to acknowledge this: One of my daily weigh-ins at the end of March was 309. This weekend, I maxed out at 322. The “average [...]

Cease and desist

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

I have continued to track my daily weight and average it for the past month, in spite of wishing that April would just die a horrible death and be done with it. I am an emotional eater, and I do pretty well when my stress level rides between 60% and 80%, but I have not [...]

The cruelest month

Friday, April 20th, 2007

Despite what they say, you can go home again. And again, and again, and again… in all the good ways and the bad. I’ve been struggling through the month of April. Warning signs have included: bingeing, isolating, complaining about constant overwhelm, obsessively planning for the future (instead of living in the moment), anxiety attacks, falling [...]

As I type this

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

I’m eating a salad, okay? SHUT UP.

Are you jealous?

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Tomorrow, I ditch all of this stress and frustration for a pseudo Spring Break in the mountains. It’ll be nice to see my family, celebrate my brother’s graduation, and work in half-a-day of lounging.
On top of everything, though (and, this is where you should be truly jealous), it looks like I’ll get to meet Rachel [...]

Week 13: 311.7 (-24.1)

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Starting weight: 335.8
Last week: 313.5
This week: 311.7
Change this week: -1.8
Overall change: -24.1
Next milestone: 25 pounds gone
I don’t want to get too excited here, but one of my morning weigh-ins1 this week was well into the 300-plus-single-digit range. I’ve been over 300 pounds since I was 18 or so, and the lowest I ever got was [...]

An experiment.