Everyone is Trying to Lose Weight
January 6, 2008
And so am I. About eight pounds to be exact. I was really hoping that I wouldn’t have to resolve to lose weight this year. I replay December 2007 over and over again with a calorie journal that documented every mistake: if I had just worked harder and if I had just been reasonable about my food intake, I wouldn’t be joining the millions of Americans who resolve to lose weight on New Year’s. On December 19th, I consumed 1,405 calories of Marzipan and chocolate. On December 25th, I consumed 3,000 calories of snacks. On December 12th, I consumed 1,350 calories of candy and nuts.
On the flip side, I have ONLY eight pounds to lose. Since September, I lost 18 pounds. All-in-all, I’ve lost roughly 40 pounds from my peak weight two years ago. And actually, I did reach my original goal of 120 pounds; I lowered it to 110 pounds when I found out that being 120 pounds still involved a mini pot-belly and a slightly bigger butt than I had hoped. The truth is that I’m 15 pounds lighter than my lowest weight in the past three years worth of weigh-ins (I keep Excel records of many mundane details about my life). And beyond the spreadsheets of data, at the heart of this New Year’s is the fact that I’m not fat anymore, and this has been the first New Year’s in a very long time that I’ve been able to say that.
