A bunch has changed since the post above. Specifically, we've been kicked out of the common land, and informed that it's not actually common land, but solely owned by some people, or a guy, I don't know. The guy was nice about it, and I played it off with a good, old-fashioned Elmo Shrug. It's all good. In the end this was possibly a blessing in a way. We're revamping the whole approach now and it will all be on our land, which is limited but at least it's ours. Those of you on the IG know a little about it. More on that later. That is not the topic for today.
Topic for today: The Scale
I came back from KT at the end of September and decided I wanted to actually try to lose weight.
Again. While I'm often trying to stay on a healthy course, there's also a lot of ice cream in my world. So I revamped the routine* and set sail to see what October would bring. I decided I was going to start getting on the scale again on the 1st of the month. When was the last time I was on the scale? Beats me. Probably not in 2020. I didn't know what to expect but I knew I wasn't going to see a 1 as the first number. I was hoping for 215 if I'm being honest. When I stepped on that morning, it was 220.
Now, 10 years ago that would have bothered me a lot, but I'm long past the point of caring that much. It's a baseline and something to work with. Before I stepped on it, I was hoping for 199, or maybe 200 flat, by the end of the year. After seeing 220, 199 seemed a little aggressive. We'll play it by ear, I suppose.
A few days passed and the reality was that the 220 was still some vacation weight I had picked up at KT. In a few days I was doing 215...actually, scratch that. The next day was 215 and with a 217 on the 4th, every day was 215 or less. So when I was hoping for 215 I was probably about right. My low in this stretch has been 210. So we're sitting at a start of 220 and a low of 210. I still have a few days to see a 20X**, which may or may not happen.
Removing the ice cream as well as not eating after 9:00pm have probably been the 2 things that have helped the most. I admit I'm pretty hungry some days after 9:00 but this is life. In October I've had 2 mochi balls as well as a few scoops when we went to see
@jmanic for dinner. Otherwise, I have been good. In total, that's about 400 ice cream calories this month.
Weight loss is not a thing I care much about in terms of biking prowess anymore. Might I race again some day? Maybe. Not super likely but maybe. In reality, as I head towards that big 5-0 I need to ask myself: how many people sit at this weight and live to be, say, 90? Probably not a lot. The reality is, as we age we need to think about this kind of stuff.
All told, it's been about a month and I have lost, in reality, about 5 pounds. If i can keep that track there's a shot that I see 200 by the end of the year. I know the holidays are often a difficult time to lose weight but who are we kidding in 2020? There's no Thanksgiving for us this year, we won't be going to Canada for Xmas, and neither of us will have work holiday parties. Even our yearly party won't happen this season. So the glut of food things won't be as much of a problem this go around.
I will try to stay on track. And I will try to keep you posted.
End Topic***
* routine - not sure I ever laid that out. But not sure it's worth it. Just think of it as a daily checklist of ways to stay on track.
** where X = some number between 0 and 9 but if I am a betting man I am thinking the 9 is more likely than the 0.
*** I haven't been blogging so much because I've been super busy, and at the end of every day I'm pretty beat. And thinking takes a lot of effort. I'm hoping to pick a single thought and run with it, as often as possible. Today's thought was a bit longer than expected. I was thinking that each thought would be a paragraph. I guess not so much.