29

Initial Weight: 240.6
Current Weight: 193.6
Current BMI: 27.0
Weight Lost: 47.0

My battery is about to die but I weighed this morning and I feel pretty good about it. Hope everyone is doing well today . . . more later!

30(ish)

I'm not to sure about my counting skills - I think there are 30 days left until the end of the six week body project.

I am also still not sure about how much I weigh. I returned the second broken scale and exchanged it for what I hope will be a functional one. I'm feeling kind of conflicted about weighing myself, though - it's really only useful as a motivational tool and I am rolling along pretty well here. Do I need to mess with my head by introducing a number to obsess over? The number does crazy things to my head - "if I lose .43 pounds a day, in 64 days I will have lost 27.52 pounds!" And then I start berating myself if I fail to lose .43 pounds every day. So . . . as long as I keep losing without too much struggle, maybe it is better for the scale to stay in its little box until the 6 week experiment is over.

41

Weight: Still no idea.

Yesterday was great. I was very tempted to eat some of the pizza that Dr. Kat ordered for patients to enjoy after her presentation but I managed to say, "42 days. Just 42 days. It's not like you will never eat pizza again. In 43 days you can eat pizza if you want. Just take your 42 days and work hard and enjoy your changing body and health." And I set the pizza up as far away from my desk as possible, which helped a lot too.

Today I hope to return the second broken scale and get a functional one. I have some conflicting feelings about weighing myself, how often I should, what will be best for me psychologically. Not sure yet whether I will go with once a day, once a week, or just once now and once at the end of the 42 days. Stay tuned for more postcards from my psyche. :)

42

Weight: No idea.

I have decided to set aside the next six weeks to focus on weight loss and health. I have been feeling a little out of countrol and self-sabotaging with my eating and movement lately, eating crap and not exercising because I am paralyzed by judging myself so harshly. So . . . we are just going to let go of that and take a vacation from emotional eating and devote ourselves mind body and soul to health and well-being. We shall see how we do . . .

Oh, and I have no idea how much I weigh because I bought two scales this weekend, both of which turned out to be broken, and have not had time to go get a third one. Soon, my pretties . . .