I need a side order of onion rings

[austin_dern]

So for some fresh developments on the weight loss front: I've been doing better in losing weight than my mother has; while I've had days with my weight bouncing up it's gone down much more reliably, and in larger steps, than hers has. My father has gotten on the machine some, but none too regularly, and his weight is down from the initial reading but not too much. The thing is that I've had more weight to lose, and while I'm taller than my mother I don't think the difference in the body-mass index denominator is that much, so while I'm going down my more points than she is my weight loss just looks bigger. And on the opening screen of the WiiFit it shows all the people with current accounts on the system and a chart of how their BMI has changed from its start.

Well, with my weight going down and down the blue line for my weight was threatening to drop off the opening-screen's scale. We were all curious what would happen when the line touched the bottom of that screen, and it turned out what happened was it rescaled the entire graph so that the vertical range was about twice as big as it was before. My weight curve continued to have a noticeable drop, but my mother's was cut to just barely lower than horizontal, with my father's pretty much irrelevant to our little competition.

Now. Saturday night my mother bought a whole turkey to roast, on the logical grounds that she'd been thinking of turkey and it turned out the whole bird was cheaper than buying a roast breast. I had not realized just how long it'd been since I had fresh hot roast turkey or how much I liked it when it was fresh but I was pretty near inhaling it for dinner. So for Sunday I promised my mother that today she'd see my weight jump up again, after a week of a couple little drops and steady holds. She objected that turkey meat is almost calorie-free so there wouldn't be, but then she remembered how I like dark meat which has got some content. And then it turned out my weight had dropped by two pounds since Saturday.

It's the first time my mother has ever said, ``I hate you.''

But I do seem to be somewhere in the range of 25 to 30 pounds lost on the year, so I can with tolerable respect for error margins say that I've lost two stone, if I want to sound more inexplicably English about my weight.

Trivia: Napoleon's Marshal Auguste-Frédéric-Louis Viesse de Marmont signed the capitulation of Paris to the invading armies of the Sixth Coalition at about 2 am on 31 March 1814. Source: The Age Of Napoleon, Will and Ariel Durant.

Currently Reading: The Quest for Alien Planets: Exploring Worlds Outside The Solar System, Paul Halpern. I'm so very nearly sure I've read this before, almost.

Comments

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

I managed to gain 1.3 lbs. between yesterday and today, and I suppose I can blame visiting my parents for it, because they ply me with things like ice cream sundaes. I'm actually thinking that if I'm going to lose any weight I might actually have to quit visiting them every weekend.

That is an amazing amount of weight to lose in such a short time. It took a bout of extreme grief for me to lose that much last year. I'm glad you have been able to do it while being happy.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I've found my weight fluctuates as many as three pounds one day to the next, and things like an ice cream sundae, well, it's not worth worrying about. (I say this more easily than I believe it, admittedly; it drives me crazy to find my weight bouncing up after I've reached a new target low weight.)

Thank you, though. It's been in large part work ... certainly better than grief.

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on your weight loss, sir!

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly.

[skylerbunny.livejournal.com]

Wow...congratulations on the weight loss. What an accomplishment!

Here's hoping you survive the homefront...

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I hope I can keep putting in the sort of effort it takes. I'd like to be a lot slenderer overall.