WEIGHT LOSS 2016 SO MUCH FUN THE FIRST TIME, LET’S DO IT AGAIN HAHAHAHAHA

I’m going to start with historic background, in case you don’t know.  In January of 2013 I realized on January 10, 2014 I was turning 50.  I was fat my entire adult life.  I convinced myself I must be thin for my 50s.  It was something I always wanted.  I started a diet on January 22, 2013.  My starting weight was 272.  I lost about 50 pounds by May.  Then I gained some.  Then I lost some.  Then I gained some.  In November of 2013 my office started a diet contest.  I knew I could win that contest, and I did.  I kept joining contests and I took my weight down almost 110 pounds. 

This is me right before I started my 2013 weight loss journey.  I still have the shirt.  The next time I know I am going to see Deane and Anna I am bringing the shirt for a comparison picture.

Before I continue I want to say something about weight numbers.  The more diet contests you enter the better you get at manipulating numbers.  I got to where I could manipulate 10 pounds in three days.  This is not permanent weight loss.  This is competition.  Anyone with intelligence figures out how to manipulate the competitions in which they participate, to a point, ask any athlete, lawyer or poker player.  If I give you numbers in this blog they are numbers I consider to be true numbers, as opposed to manipulated numbers. 

Let me give you an example of a manipulated number.  There is a certificate hanging on my office wall that says I won a diet contest.  It says I lost 74.8 lbs in 16 weeks.  That’s not true.  If you look at the prior award from the same contest, the one that started 9 weeks earlier, it says I lost 56.8 lbs in 16 weeks.  When they made the certificate they forgot to add the new 8 weeks, which would make it 74.8 lbs in 24 weeks.  That number is still skewed because those contests ended on a Monday and began the following Monday.  I would bulk up before the start of a contest and sometimes, particularly the smaller I got, stop eating days before weigh out.  I don’t think I could have lost the weight I did without contests.  The contests were invaluable to me.  Weight loss is a trend over time.  A 5 lb one day weight loss means nothing unless you still have that weight loss two weeks later.  I have a way of keeping track of what I call “true” numbers.  I go with my numbers.  I don’t count a low number I ricocheted off as soon as I ate. 

  

Here I am at about my lowest weight, winning a side bet.  I still have the dress.  I can’t wait to wear it for you.

I achieved my lowest, stable weight the summer of 2014 and I remained very close to that weight though February 2015, then I started consistently gaining.  How much?  About 8% by December 2015.  Of course, that was until I went away for New Year’s weekend where I gained a record amount of weight in a short time period, se la vie. 

January 2, 2016, last day of Christmas vacation indulgence. 

So what did I do after New Year’s 2016?  I rejoined DietBet.com.  I hadn’t wanted to do that in 2015.  I thought what kind of an idiot springs back and forth in diet competitions?  Do you want to join a diet contest and lose exactly the same pounds again?  Can’t you just be normal?  I haven’t figured out how to be normal yet.  I am that idiot.  So I put my ego away, jumped back on the DietBet bandwagon and am doing what works for me, again.   I want to be thinner.  I want to fit in all my pretty clothes.  DietBet.com is a great accountability tool, as is writing to all of you.