I didn't expect to just STOP blogging when I reached the one year anniversary of my start on a healthier path. . . but my schedule got a little full and it just sort of happened.
Same way with the weight loss. On May 15, I weighed 221 pounds, a loss of 61 for the previous 12 months. So . . . with great fanfare I created a new spreadsheet with our weights, and put the starting weight at 221 instead of 282. Perhaps I jumped the gun a bit. In the last 31 days, we've travelled a little bit, we've been to a couple of parties, a church pot luck. We've adjusted to a summer schedule that sometimes means meals on the run . . .
The end result, of course, is that weight loss stopped also. In fact, weight gain commenced. Most of the last four weeks we've been on our various plateaus with me up about 2 pounds and my wife up about a pound. The peak came 10 days ago, when we returned from a weekend professional development course my wife took. . .7 weekend meals all out and about (2 of them were picnics with healthy food, but the others -- the worst kind of restaurant meals). I peaked at 226 pounds, up 5 from my "beginning" weight.
Since then, we've gotten strict again. Correct portion sizes, no junk food. We rediscovered fresh seafood. And for the last 5 days, we've been back on Phase 1 -- no carbs.
So, at 31 days in to year two, I'm back to 220.0 pounds -- exactly one pound less than a month ago.
My wife, providing a great example for me, is down almost two pounds from a month ago. (And her peak weight was only about 2 pounds up from her May 15 start)
Wish us luck, as we continue on!
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