not quite normal

week: -3.5
total: -69

According to my milestones on the right column, I'm in the gray area between "overweight" (150) and "normal" (145). I don't necessarily like how I've achieved it here recently (see The Gustav Diet), but that plateau was pretty heinous, and I'm glad for breaking it.

Life is in turmoil here, and we have not practiced Tang Soo Do in over a week, nor have we been to the gym. We are planning to change that this afternoon and do something after work, and try to start getting back to normal, even as we keep waiting for the power to come back on.

stuck

week: +2
total: -9.5

I've looked at my weight numbers for the last month, and I seem to be on a mighty plateau. That, or my body thinks it's happy where it is now -- and I might buy that, except that my body still has a LOT of jiggly jubbly bits that really do not belong. I guess I'm going to have to change some things, or else just wait it out.

I tried the "gym before work" thing on Monday. It wasn't altogether heinous, but one needs to be supremely well-organized. I almost accomplished that, but I forgot my shower-shoes and my comb. (I had a spare comb in the car, so the latter was minor, except for walking out of the gym looking like a crazy woman.) It isn't too late for me to try it again today, but I'll have to make up my mind fast.

May Day Week 1

Wow, so looking back at my weight logs (a tip I stole got from Jeremy Zawodny, just as a method of collecting data), I was on a plateau since April 1 to -- you guessed it -- May 9. What causes a plateau? Why does it break? Maybe it has to do with stress, or how I wasn't able to hit the gym so often on account of work. Maybe my body just had to adjust.

In any event, I'm down five whole pounds from where I was on May 8.

Here's my reward!