All right, kids . . . looks like for the foreseeable future, Tuesday will be check-in day for me, just to satisfy the planet’s desire to keep track of my awesome progress (or lack thereof).
I probably won’t be as witty or verbose or graphic-heavy as I used to be, just in the interest of time. (My time, that is.) I know there a few fans of my weight loss graphs, and I will still post those from time to time.
My weight for any given week will be listed as the average of the previous seven days. This helps eliminate anomalous ups and downs and gives (what I believe is) a more accurate picture of how things are going.
| Week 1 | |
| Start Date | Apr 12, 2010 |
| Starting Weight | 228.0 |
| Current Weight | 224.7 |
| Lost So Far | 3.3 lbs |
My overall plan is to drop a pound a week for the first three hundred weeks, then move on to two pounds per week after that. Wait a minute. That doesn’t sound right. I meant, my plan is to drop ten pounds a week for fifty weeks, then one pound a week after that until . . . hold on. That doesn’t sound right either.
Oh wait, I know. I don’t have a plan. I’m just going to get back to the general plan of “stop eating all the time” and see how that goes. From the looks of the first week, I’d say it’s heading in the right direction. And like the last time I seriously kicked this off, the real goal is to protect my pancreas. I had a 131 reading at the end of the day, which is well out of my own personal safe range. Here’s to fixing that, among other things.
on April 20, 2010 at 4:39 am
Ahhhh Charlie, lovely to see you back 🙂
Congrats on your loss this week. You are a true fighter.
Was the reading of 131 for your blood sugar? If so, your measurements are different to ours here (UK). So what is the ‘normal’ range?
The funniest thing about diabetes (I dont mean funny haha!) is that when your pancreas does finally pack up you actually lose a lot of weight rapidly! This happened to my Mum and my Dad in their 50’s so I’m pretty scared of that prospect too.
All the best
Tusc 🙂
on April 20, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Yes, it was blood sugar. In the US, we measure concentration in the form of milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). The measurement on your side of the pond is molar concentration. For one comparison: 4 mmol/L = 72 mg/dL.
on April 20, 2010 at 7:59 am
YAY! Tuesdays are great!
I think your lack of a plan and just stopping all that eating did the trick, eh?
on April 20, 2010 at 11:53 am
Nicely begun! (And just think of what the blood glucose levels would have been were you still chugging the Cheeze-Itz.)
on April 20, 2010 at 2:12 pm
We won’t discuss the fact I just had a donut for lunch. :-/
on April 23, 2010 at 5:09 pm
Great loss this week. Cheers to seeing that glucose level plummet soon!