Howdy howdy folks, hope you’re having a great July and getting out to enjoy this gorgeous (minus the rain) weather! I’m writing today because, for one, I forgot to update over the 4th of July. Constant Reader, you know that my original goal set forth waaay back in the day was to hit 200 lbs. by the fourth. I am now positive that if I’d been on my PSMF diet back then, I would have blown away my goals and expectations. As it stands, I lost about 18 lbs from Jan-May, which while nothing to laugh at, is rather pathetic for someone “trying” to lose weight. Clocking in at just over 240, on May 19th, I chose a more…restrictive route by following Lyle McDonald’s Rapid Fat Loss Handbook. You can see the results of my efforts in a handy chart by clicking PSMF Daily Log at the top, or clicking here for the really lazy.
While I didn’t meet my original goal, I am still very happy because today, 52 days later, I have lost 25 pounds. Just under a half pound a day averaged weight loss (I’ve written about what weekends do to me before, and you can see the spikes in my graph that correlate.) This puts me at 215.8. I have 15.8 lbs to go to meet my revised deadline of our annual camping trip on August 13th. That’s 36 days, and considering my average, I am right on track there.
I have a few upcoming events that I think will help make a positive difference. This weekend, I will be racing in my second Cornman Sprint Triathlon, and plan to stay focused through the weekend as a result. This makes one of only weekends since I began that I don’t have much temptation to cheat heavily, so hopefully I won’t waste part of next week shedding the typical weekend weight gain. Next weekend I have off, but I’m not too worried, because after the triathlon I will be riding my butt off, trying to cram training miles in for RAGBRAI. Since that will occupy two weekends and a week in between them, and since I will be riding 60+ miles a day (hopefully no sag wagon for me!), the few indulgences I may partake in will have a negligible effect. After that, there is only two weeks until my trip, and I think somewhere in there I have to take my final pics for the latest TT Transformation Contest.
I say all this with a smile on my face and a creme-filled longjohn on my desk, because I know that there will still be pitfalls and opportunities to blow up my diet along the way. Almost to the finish. Head down, and work hard. I’m keeping the pics and measurements to myself until then, so you’ll have a reason to stop back.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot