First, the good news. I have lost 20.2 lbs this year, 7 lbs this week alone. The bad news in addition to losing 20.2 lbs this year, I have also gained 13.2 lbs. In other words, the 7 lbs. I lost this week is the only weight I truly lost all year. And since I tend to gain back all the weight I lose, we really can't be certain that those 7lbs we'll stay gone.
At the end of last year, I weighed myself as I do every Saturday and I weighed 259.6 lbs. I estimated by losing 1 lb a week for 10 weeks I could be below 250 by Saturday, March 11th. Today is March 11th and I now weigh 252.6 pounds. During those 10 weeks, I lost weight 6 different times and I gained weight 4 times.
Perhaps a little historical perspective would be helpful here. I weighed 174 lbs when I was a Freshman in high school. When I graduated high school I weighed 174 lbs. During high school, I could eat all the time and never gain weight which is exactly what I did. Between 18 and 33 the year I got married my weight went up gradually to somewhere between 200 and 220. In the first 16 or so years of my marriage it continued to go up until about 8 years ago I weighed myself and saw that I was 285 lbs.
In the past 8 years is when the yo-yo-ing began. Yo-yo-ing is only marginally better than unchecked gradual increases. Since June of 2021, I've gone from 262 pounds in June to 227.6 on Christmas Day 2021 but was back up to 263 by January of this year. That's a year 1/2 long yo-yo.
I've been wanting to post about my weight loss/weight gain struggles here for a while. I feel a little like Piglet in the opening of Winnie The Pooh and The Blustery day. He's raking leaves and generally gets blown around by the wind when he says I don't mind the leaves that are leaving, But I don't like the ones that are coming. I don't mind losing 20 lbs in 2.5 months. I just hope the next time I say that I weigh 20.5 lbs less than I did 2.5 months before not just 7.
