Dropping weight

Dropping weight:

I continue to drop weight. Indeed, my original goal was as follows:

On 01-28-2005, I wrote the following:

Approximately 7 weeks to go until my birthday: which is approximately 17.5 pounds. I would say that my weighted average weight this week is roughly 250 (or 251). Theoretically I could be down to 232.5. So the potential rate is 1 pound per week, to perhaps 2 as much as 2.5 pounds.

1 x 7 = 7 pounds; (243)
1.5x7 = 10.5 pounds; (239.5)
2x7 = 14 pounds; (236)
2.5x7= 17.5 pounds (232.5).

My current 5-day weighted average weight is 234 pounds; so I have approximately 2 weeks to drop 1.5 pounds (or more!). I suspect some of it has to do with my newfound skill of finagling the scale by putting mroe weight on the balls of my feet -- nonetheless, I am trying to track differences, and so I've maintain that it should be my incentive to try to position on my scale to find the lowest weight possible, so that I am, in actuality, comparing apples to apples (i.e., I'm comparing last weeks' lowest weigth to today's lowest weight).

My waist officially measured 40 inches today, which is a nice change (and evidently the beginnings of a potentially reduced change in my health risk).

My eating continues to be healthy and effective -- and my exercise routine regular, if not more (except for the past few days -- I had a significant paper due at my externship and it kept me up the past few nights -- as has monkeying around on the internet and thinking about a long lost friend (female) who reappeared in December.

Overall another good week, albeit the workouts were a bit truncated and not enough sleep. But, otherwise, things are definitely coming together.

And, of course, the treadmill continues to pay huge dividends as well.