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I feel I should mention a minor bit of news about my weight, since I'd let off on reporting my WiiFit-fueled weight loss regimen. For the past month, I haven't lost much weight to speak of. This is noteworthy, though, because I also haven't gained any weight to speak of. For thirty days now my morning weigh-in has reported my weight to be within a band of about five pounds. This would be the classic pattern of hitting a weight loss plateau, and perhaps I'd be frustrated if it happened any higher than it had. But this plateau, if such it is, I reached with a body mass index of just about 22.0. This is the level which, at least, the WiiFit regards as the Ideal Weight For Your Height.
In short, and joyfully, I've lost all the weight I should reasonably expect to lose. In fact, my mother has taken to checking on me each weigh-in and warning me not to try losing any more weight, lest I give myself an eating disorder. I can't imagine how she'd think a person prone to obsessive-compulsive behaviors who's experienced a year of astounding weight loss might somehow transform a sudden stopping of that weight loss into an eating disorder. Still, the WiiFit goal of ``maintain this weight'' is less likely to get nosey about what's gone on if your weight flutters up a pound or two, as I tend to do after weekends, so I like that attitude change on its part much better.
So, now, my new goal is weight maintenance, and particularly keeping to a reasonable weight band while dedicating fewer hours of the day, or at least of the week, to heavy exercise. I've gained a lot by losing weight --- not least, a new wardrobe, a great feeling when I move, and astoundingly for me low blood pressure, resting pulse rate, and cholesterol levels --- but it has taken up a lot of my time. I need to balance my time and diet to my new body. Still, I hope, this is the last major weight change update I'll have.
Trivia: The 1932 Winter Olympics were brought to Lake Placid (rather than another spot in the United States) by the secretary and president of the Lake Placid Club, Dr Godfrey Dewey, son of club founder Melvil Dewey. (Melvil was the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System.) Source: Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement, Editors John E Findling, Kimberly D Pelle.
Currently Reading: Big Blues: The Unmaking Of IBM, Paul Carroll. I am offended to have an incident I remember --- the joke being passed around about what do you get if you merge IBM and Apple (from when they started working on RISC chips together) --- mentioned as an historic recollection. I'm sorry, that's too recent to be in a book written with some (albeit not much in that case) historic perspective.
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Date: 2010-02-18 07:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-19 05:13 am (UTC)I have lost weight since I was there for Thanksgiving, although I haven't got much thinner-looking. I'm still fitting the same pants sizes, which is partly an effect of being able to tolerate wearing sizes a little bit big for me and partly an effect of my not wanting to buy new clothes yet again.
I'm still not quite adjusted to my body's appearance, though. It's a wonderful and weird feeling.
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Date: 2010-02-18 08:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-19 05:15 am (UTC)Per the early 90s, joke, you get IBM. Big Blue has loosened way up since twenty years ago.
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Date: 2010-02-18 11:39 am (UTC)She may be thinking "bulimia." Now that you reached a plateau you certainly wouldn't want to jeopardize things by going that route to maintain it.
I'm sorry, that's too recent to be in a book written with some (albeit not much in that case) historic perspective.
...welcome to my world ;o)
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Date: 2010-02-19 05:53 am (UTC)Well, we'll see. But I will admit to trying extra hard to empty myself out in the bathroom before the morning weigh-in, even though that can't make any appreciable difference. Not unless I'd just over-indulged in free refills at McDonald's, and I wouldn't be just waking up from the night after that.
The How Markets Fail book I read a few weeks back gets as late as spring 2009 in its coverage of market, er, failure.
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Date: 2010-02-18 05:40 pm (UTC)I've been going back to the gym since New Year's... still trying to make it a *regular* schedule, but I'm sure this is just going to keep getting harder to get back down off the peaks as I get older. *sigh* I haven't moved more then a couple pounds down so far... Maybe I won't make it this time. :^b
Is the answer to the joke "IBM"? ;^)
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Date: 2010-02-19 05:59 am (UTC)I haven't ping-ponged, but then, this is the first chance I've had in my life to pong, really. (Although in hindsight I can identify stretches where my weight fluctuated over maybe as much as thirty pounds, but that would be over the course of years, too.) But I did want to make sure I'd kept my weight in a reasonable band for a stretch before saying anything about it, and a month seemed like the shortest tolerable stretch.
I don't dare balloon up again, though. I gave away almost all my fat- and not-all-that-fat clothes. I'd have to rebuild my whole wardrobe.
The joke's answer was, as above. Although the book noted that since they actually got a workable product in production without the standard IBM process of fifteen years of obsessively documented over-engineering to guarantee long pre-manufacturing obsolescence, it kind of turned out that they got 'Apple' out of it.
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Date: 2010-02-19 05:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-21 05:22 am (UTC)I should point out, she's not large except in the eyes of the WiiFit.
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Date: 2010-02-19 09:04 am (UTC)I'm.. nudging downward slowly here myself. Finally have a bathroom scale to track it. On Sunday, after some very long work hours, I saw numbers lower than I'd seen in about 15 years, so I'm encouraged..
--Chi
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Date: 2010-02-21 05:30 am (UTC)Aw, thank you. And congratulations yourself!
Nudging downward is good, and probably more practical in the long run. At least it's easier.