Gaining back the losses

Gaining back the loss

In some ways it feels like the tide. You can only swim against it so long before it drags you back into shore.

I weigh 245 pounds. About what I weighed in January 05. . . about 20 pounds heavier than my moving average in August-05.

Moreover, one of my original posts set a deadline for becoming a “healthy” weight by 2-2.5 years from May-04. Thus, the “dropping 100 pounds” deadline appears to be between May-06 and 11-06. It seems unattainable at this point. I’d need to lose 70-80 pounds in barely 2 to 8 months (8 to 32 weeks) – at 32 weeks, that would be about 2.7 pounds per week.

I did read my old notes. At failure, so goes the idea, then it is time to consider bariatric bypass surgery (stomach stapling).

I pulled the old data and measured new circumferences

New:

N: 17
B: 14
C: 45.5;
UW: 44.5;
LW: 41.0;
T: 23.5

Old:

N: 18.0
B: 17.0
C: 53.0
UPW: 48.0
LW: 43.0
T: 27.5

From ~09-2006

N: 15.8
B: 13.3
C: 43.3
UPW: 41.0
LW: 38.0
T: 22.3

More bad news: I weight 247 tonight. I had a body fat last night of 25.60% (measured with calipers). 33% via the tanita scale. In June of 05 I was ~25%; 07-05: 24%; 08-05: 22-23%; 08 (late) -05: 21.57%.

So I’ve increased about 4 caliper percentage points in body fat. This is a significant increase.

SOLUTIONS

There seem to be two straightforward solutions:
Increase caloric burn (exercise) and decrease calories (caloric control). The result should be weight loss and reduced body fat percentages.

I also need to formulate a plan for this. Unfortunately I just spent several hours in the most ridiculous surfing on the net: Looking for long lost friends from 3rd grade through high school. . .

my weight chart for period 12-05 to 03-2005 -- roughly :-).  

CALIPER BODY FAT: 25.61%

Caliper body fat -- the day after my 36th birthday: 25.61%. I still hope to get it below 10%. But right now I think I'm on the losing side of the battle.

It's pretty consistent: I get a girlfriend and the weight and body fat percentage rise. Although with finals and a licensing exam inbetween. . . the newfound gain sort of makes sense. I suppose by "making sense" I suspect it means I acknowledge that I have some issues with food -- I eat to make myself feel better, rather than pure sustenance. . .

anyhow. . . more to come I hope. . .

kc.