It has been encouraging to see my measurements dropping still, in spite of the slower weight loss I have seen in the two months. Even though I believe I can do better with the numbers on the scale... it is hard to be too picky when my body is still shrinking (in a different way).
As far as my scale numbers go... once I hit my 100 pounds lost mark... I will kind of have exactly another 100 to go... I say kind of because I am focused primarily on getting to 200 pounds, and then deciding where my goal is. I blew past the 200 mark in about a year when I quit swimming at fifteen, and ended up gaining about sixty pounds. It doesn't take long for a body to rebel when it goes from five to six hours of exercise a day- to none. I basically don't know what my needs as an adult, and where maintenance will be. I have a lot of pounds to go before I make that decision though.
That paragraph was "big" goal thinking... I do have a short term goal that I am working on, which is to weigh 264 pounds by September 22nd. I usually don't put dates on my weight, but I felt like this was reasonable when I made it last month. That is a little over two pounds a week for the next seven weeks- more than I have been losing in the last two months, but not unrealistic. About a 8500-9000 calorie deficit every week (1200-1300/daily). It will put me at 100 pounds lost for my first year of weight loss.
Alright. Off to school now!
