Day 62 Update!

I should have made this update yesterday but it was a busy day because of a family reunion plus Heber's birthday! We'll talk about that more later, but let's talk now about my weight loss.

On October 4th, my 7 day average weight was 352.4 and on the 11th, it was 348.6. Because of extra decimal points and rounding, it was 3.9 lbs in one week. That's a high weight loss. My goal is 2 lbs a week or so. Because of all the parties the last few days and even one tomorrow, it will be hard to maintain that rate for next week.

Another metric that I'm keeping track of is also something I'm really embarrassed about. Years and years ago, think 2003 in Thailand, I was joking around with students and decided to measure the circumference of my belly. I was shocked to see(and so were the students) that the distance around my belly was larger than their height. It's something I've kept track of on and off during the time since.

At one point in Saipan in 2010 or 2011, it was just about the same as my height, 72 inches. I was able to get that back down into the low to mid 50's before I returned to the US in 2013. The measurement is probably not very scientific and probably doesn't have a lot of basis, but I'm keeping track of it. On October 4th, the 7 day average was 159 cm(62.5 inches) and on the 11th, the 7 day average was 157cm( 61.8") . As I've mentioned before, my weight goal by mid January is 320 lbs.

I hope I can do it.