Wed. morning weight: 229.0.

I do not believe I have ever seen my weight at 22x. I suspect that it was once in that range, since I know I was born weighing less, although I lack the basis to prove my weight is a continuous function and thus subject to the intermediate value theorem. However, I never measured it as such. Presumably I had learned about Heisenberg and was going through a phase where I was more concerned about my location.

Really, though, I went from around 190 leaving high school to the 260s, stopping at 270, around the age of 26. In between I had no interest in the number. Particularly after a couple years in college I was making money, in need of new clothes, buying them myself, and simply getting the sizes I needed. And, of course, eating badly. So I grew without really thinking about it. When I lost weight several years ago I got from around 260 to about 230, then held steady there for a while before it crept back up. So breaking the 230 barrier means something.

Including this relatively good week, I calculated that I'm averaging a 0.99% weekly loss. This curve will put me at 195¼ in week 25, 16 weeks from now, which is roughly Thanksgiving. (No, exactly Thanksgiving, counting from today.) I rather expect to have the holidays — if not a celebratory slice of pizza — offset my efforts for a couple months and still be at 195 in mid-January. Then it's time to finally get out of phase one and transition to ongoing weight loss eating. My goal is set at 180, which I think my doctor picked as the border between being merely overweight and obesity, or something like that. I remember the upper end of my government-approved weight range is about 165, depending on how straight I stand up for the height measurement, so overshooting wouldn't exactly hurt.

My blood sugar has crept up again, though, with six of the last seven mornings in the 100s. It's unaffected by the times I eat, too, which Dr. S. has nagged about. I wonder how that will impact my future diet, even if I could keep my weight under control while being more liberal. Well, at least metformin is cheap.