Weight Milestone

After the Wicked Half Marathon on Sept. 20, and a month of my weight hanging around the mid 180s, I decided to make the extra effort to lose weight in the runup to the Disney Marathon. I was weighing myself once a week, but decided to eliminate the weigh-ins until Halloween. The psychology is that the regular weigh-ins can be demotivating if you aren't losing the weight you think you should be... just do the best you can and see what happens.

I became more strict on the diet, eliminating the Coke altogether, the cereal and bread, and more or less going low-carb and eating more fruit. Weighing myself this morning, I came in at 179.5, which is about a 5 to 6 pound loss from where I was at the Wicked Half Marathon. It's the first time I have been below 180 pounds perhaps since my 20's. At least I can't remember the last time I was less than 180. My original goal was to be 180 or less for the marathon, but I'm amending that now to 175 or less. Obviously, it's getting increasingly difficult to take weight off as I close in on my natural limit.

The next event on the schedule is the Air Force Association 10k in Bedford on Nov. 8. I'll have Ellen back with me running the associated 5k.

Here is my weight diary since last Spring. Back in March I accidentally deleted the email that contained the January and February entries.

Date     Weight
1/10     223.0
[Jan-Feb missing]
3/3       212.5
3/10     212.5
3/17     212.0
3/24     209.5
3/31     210.5
4/7       208.5
4/14     207.5
4/28     204.0
5/5       204.0
5/12     200.0
5/28     200.5
6/2       199.0
6/9       196.5
6/16     197.0
6/23     194.0
6/30     195.5
7/7       193.0
7/14     191.0
7/21     189.5
7/28     189.5
8/4       189.5
8/11     188.0
8/18     186.5
8/25     188.0
9/1       186.0
9/8       185.5
9/15     184.5
10/31   179.5