Onward and downward

Current Weight: 194

Things may not be moving quite as fast as they did right at the beginning. But the fact is we're a month and a half into this thing and I'm down 18 pounds. That's an average of 12 pounds a month, which translates to 48 pounds in four months... which translates, pretty much, to the L-IV goal.

Now, this might be a little rigged at this point. In the last couple weeks I've stepped back on the diet - though to be fair what I've stepped back on is the paleo restrictions and not so much the goal of eating not more than 100 grams of carbs a day and certainly well under 2000 calories. In fact, in the last week my average daily intake looks like this:

1586 calories
88 grams fat
110 grams carbs
90 grams protein

Even that's not entirely fair since I opted not to hold myself back on the carbs on Christmas. Take out the 242 from that day, and the other six days averaged a mere 88 grams of carbs.

Anyway, as I said, the 12 pounds a month figure might not quite work at this point, since of the 18 pounds I've lost, I lost ten in the first two weeks, meaning I lost just eight in the last month. At eight a month, the 32 pounds I have to go would take another four months from now, which means it would take 5.5 months total. But frankly, that's still pretty good, and if that's the cost of not being miserable on a super-restrictive diet for four months, I'll take it.

We do still have to see what happens in January with all the traveling, which is now less than a week away from starting. Not only will I be eating worse and/or more, but I also probably won't be exercising much aside from just walking. It is only two weeks, of course. I suppose the worst case scenario is I put a couple pounds back on and simply have to turn the jets back on once travel concludes. Really, I should just do what I can to watch portions - order small things when possible. I certainly feel like I've gotten to a point where I don't have any need (to the extent that I ever did) for huge amounts of food - I mean, I'm operating on 1600 calories a day and I feel fine. So as long as the blowout mega-calorie days are kept to a minimum, hopefully this will be okay.