Weigh-in Week 25

The Numbers

Starting Weight: 216.8
Weight Last Week: 207.2
Weight This Week: 204.0
Loss This Week: 3.2
Total Weight Loss: 12.8
Pounds Still to Go: 19.0
Trendline Estimate: 203.9

Look at that. 3.2 pounds!  Only in Week 4 did I lose more. I've broken the 205 mark already and it's the first week in a long time that I dipped below that trendline.  I actually only went to the gym once this week as well. Probably not something I should do every week, but I just wasn't feeling that hungry, so I didn't eat all that much.

So what now?  First thing: Don't gain weight. I don't want one of those upward swings to come back. It took 16 weeks total since I first dipped below 210 only to gain, and then finally drop back down. If I can manage to not gain weight, I'd like to lose 1.8 pounds a week from here until my birthday to get down to 195, but getting down to 200 by my birthday will be ok too.

But 195!! I'm only 19 pounds away from my target weight now. Getting down to 195 means more than 50% of the weight I want to lose will be gone!  Getting down to 200 is 25%! I look down and see how much fat is deposited around my stomach, arm pits, and inner thighs, and it's hard to imagine 25% of it gone with just 5 more pounds.

I may have lost 12.8 pounds since I started recording my weight, but there is a good chance it's actually 21 pounds. I once again fit in the lab coat that's in my profile pic, and I was looking at the shirt I was wearing yesterday thinking that maybe it's too big for me now.

So let's see how it goes next week.  This is exciting, I'm hitting the back half of this journey of mine.