Stuff about me (Bernard HP Gilroy), instead of or in addition to stuff about education.
| Weight this week | | | Change since last week | | | Total change |
| 267.0 | | | -1.4 | | | -106.0 |
Not much of note here. I’ve really given up predicting the details of my weight change. I don’t know why it dropped off some, but that can apparently happen. Anyway, I’m still pretty happy with where I am.
I’ve been bouncing around some. But I finally broke the 100-pound mark.
| Weight this week | | | Change since last week | | | Total change |
| 271.0 | | | -6.6 | | | -102.0 |
NB: I’ve recalibrated a bit here to use the original weight as measured by PWMC (373 lbs), since that’s where I’m getting my weekly numbers.
Six months in and a hundred pounds down — this is actually almost exactly where I’d hoped to be. What I’ve learned is that I’m not really ready to live “outside the box” yet, as my only weight gains have come in weeks I could not stay on-program. Next week will be a test of this, as I will be at a conference in Philly all week. But Annie’s coming so she’ll probably be my conscience (as in many things 🙂 ) and keep me plugging away.
It’s also time for me to look forward and decide what my eventual goal weight will be. I have to put some thought into that.
Wow, it’s been a while since I updated this. No particular reason — I guess I just got distracted.
| Weight this week | | | Change since last week | | | Total change |
| 277.2 | | | -1.4 | | | -91.2 |
It’s more than a little odd, as my numbers don’t seem to be tied to what I actually do during a week. Weeks where I hew closely to the plan and work out and such can be low weight-loss weeks. Weeks where I fall off the wagon a little can be high weight-loss weeks. All I know is, things haven’t stabilized enough for me to consider Maintenance seriously. Anyway, I’m excited to be closing in on 100 pounds. I might just get there by six months, and if not, then soon after.
Class has been a mixed bag. Kristi is great and works hard to keep people motivated. But I feel like I do best just plugging away — the variety and hoopla doesn’t really do it for me. I know that that’s different than for most people but then, I’m different too. In any event the accountability of a weekly meeting and a weekly call have been very helpful, and the other stuff is certainly not horrible, so I’ll keep on with it.
Everyone has their own unique signs that summer is upon us, the signature sound that signals the academic year is winding down. For me, it’s “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears.
More below the fold.
(more…)
| Weight this week | | | Change since last week | | | Total change |
| 284.8 | | | -8.0 | | | -83.6 |
A pretty good week for me… which is baffling, as I have not (as far as I know) done anything materially different in any of the past three weeks, but my weight loss has fluctuated wildly. Odd. It’s also odd that my weight loss has been an integer in each of those weeks as well, but I have to believe that has no deep meaning.
Today I got two 10-lb. hand weights and I intend to start using them a little every night … not so much for the calories it’ll count towards but because I want to balance with a little upper-body stuff. I should probably also start stretching and doing those sorts of things, but I don’t see that in the foreseeable future. 🙂
| Weight this week | | | Change since last week | | | Total change |
| 292.8 | | | -2.0 | | | -75.6 |
After a couple of see-saw weeks, I’m back at a usual weight loss number. Most likely this reflects a return to “established” weight — the weight so easily put on over Spring Break came off relatively easily but now it’s work again. It’s a little frustrating in that I’m not making much change in what I eat or how I work out, but I’m not settling down to a reliable number. At least it keeps me vigilant.
| Weight this week | | | Change since last week | | | Total change |
| 294.8 | | | -9.2 | | | -73.6 |
| Blood Pressure | | | Systolic | | | Diastolic |
| * | | | 130 | | | 90 |
From a weight-loss perspective, this was a very good week: nearly ten pounds. But of course, given the spike upward last week, that just about puts me where I should be anyway. That’s somewhat frustrating and will, I suspect, be a good goad not to go out-of-box in the future. More reassuringly, I didn’t have to change all that much to achieve the higher number; I just had to stick to the program.
More disturbingly, my blood pressure crept back up a bit. It’s not any cause for worry as of yet. Part of the issue might just be that I got checked at a later time than usual; BP is known to be somewhat dependent to time-of-day and such. (I attended a later class than usual due to a school commitment.) The doctor doesn’t seem worried and he didn’t put me back on ramipril, so it’s probably not an extremely bad development, but it warrants keeping an eye out.
As mentioned I attended a different class. For the past month or so I’ve been going to a “maintenance” class (even though I’m still in weight loss) because Tuesdays work much better than any other night and there wasn’t any Tuesday night weight loss. As of last night, there is — a new cycle is beginning with four new people. PWMC gave me the option of choosing which session I attend from now on. I’m probably going to stick with Maintenance, in part because it’s a more convenient time. But also, I’ve seen a lot of the weight-loss stuff and what is informative the first time becomes tedious on repetition. Also, I predict that I am going to have more difficulty with maintenance than I am with weight loss, so it probably make sense to put the extra edge there.
икони
| Weight this week | | | Change since last week | | | Total change |
| 304.0 | | | +4 | | | -64.4 |
This is the first week in which I’ve gained, rather than lost weight, and it’s a simple morality tale: It’s also the first week in which I went “out of the box” a significant amount. While at Lunacon, I wasn’t able to have the HMR entrees because the Hilton Rye Town doesn’t have microwaves available to the customers (or hot water boilers, either). While I could have enough shakes to get the nutritional requirement in, there’s a psychological component to going several days without the act of eating that I wasn’t entirely prepared for.
In the end I wound up having one meal a day in the restaurant. Combined with a slight fall-off in physical activity (I met the prescribed minimum, but sitting in a con is a lot less active than even teaching), it reversed my previous trend. In essence I’ve lost two weeks (the weight I gained and now one more to get back to where I was). In return I’ve gained a valuable lesson, which is that things turn around darn fast when you stop paying attention to them. *sigh*
After the hectic pace on Saturday, the con wound down somewhat before concluding on Sunday. I attended a panel on Galileo, another one on world building, and one on World Domination. Then I attended the dead dog filk and went home. Along the way I finally met up with someone I’d been on the lookout for all con.
(more…)
Today was the busiest of the convention. I gave blood; saw Mercedes Lackey and others hold forth on building fantasy worlds; participated in a discussion on financial crises in sci fi; participated (sort of) in the Masquerade after all; caught about half of a surprisingly good 1940 adventure film; and caught all of a not-at-all surprisingly bad 1979 space adventure film.
(more…)
