January Goals met (mostly), onward!

The weird thing with consistency when it comes to eating is it saps the will to blog each day.

Every day this week was "1500 cals." So I suppose having daily posts saying that would be... pretty boring (but I do intend to keep up with regular posts anyway, maybe not daily).

So January is over, so let's see how I did, for the month:

The goal was 4 lbs of loss. I did....

-7lbs. (This was measured on Wednesday, Feb. 1).
So yeah, smoked that one! Even with some natural regain over the next few days (despite maintaining the same calorie level), I'm still well beyond that goal.

I currently sit at -7lbs of loss "since the start of this blog," a number that I hope will finally grow to something respectable! 

Measurements:

Waist: yes! -1" as I hoped. That brings my total inch loss around the waist to -4" since the start of this blog. That's great!

Chest: er, this is weird. HOW IN THE WORLD DID I GAIN AN INCH AROUND MY CHEST WHEN I LOST A HUGE ASS AMOUNT OF WEIGHT AT THE SAME TIME!?!!

My nutritional consultant tells me this is an anomaly and to expect weird stuff to happen, and to keep on trucking. So I'm not worrying about it over much.

The only real dangers going forward are, to be honest, "complacency from small success." Especially since the 1500 a day standard feels "easy" to some degree now, which paradoxically in my experience sets me up for failure ("eh, I'm doing so well, a little cheat can't be bad..." etc.).

FEBRUARY GOALS

Since I'm going on a vacation in April, it's now extremely important that I lose as much weight as possible, so I can not worry about it for the ten days I'll be traveling. It really drags a vacation down when you think you are going to come home at some horrible new high for weight. Plus you want to look good for all of those pictures!

Weight loss goal: I'd like to shoot for six lbs in four weeks (we'll count the week that ends in March as the last week).
Measurement Goal: Those stubborn inches can be super weird, so I'm going to say  a half inch from the waist, and an inch from the chest (THAT shouldn't be too hard since I somehow WENT UP in the chest area). 

How I'm going to do it:

Obviously the same way I did January. I think 1500, if strictly adhered to and even with minimal exercise, is probably still enough, since I maxed out at -7lbs of loss for the month. However there is no reason why I can't debit a bit more if needed. For perspective, the folks on the 600 lb life show are put on a 1200 calorie diet: and at 600 lbs, these folks have a MUCH HIGHER basal metabolic rate than me.

As you noticed I haven't really gotten back to posting regular steps yet. That is mostly because I am just now completely getting over my cold (it was a bad one). I don't really believe cardio helps weight loss that much (actually, I do worry that it would increase hunger, in fact), but the simple fact is, my vacation is going to require a lot of walking, and I know from personal experience that I have to train for these things, lest I end up like I did in Rome in 2004: much thinner than now, but utterly destroyed because I wasn't used to the daily rigors of walking EVERYWHERE.

I may begin working in resistance training, vastly superior anyway, to a shorter but still significant walking regimen on some days.