Friday, January 26, 2007

Silver, Tired, Thailand

I finally earned a Silver Medal, almost two months behind schedule. Blah.

I've lost a few pounds during this 8 week weight loss challenge I organized at work. It didn't motivate me much at all, I'm afraid. It was a nice idea, though. Blah. I hope Samo wins; she has a very good chance.

I'm tired of the whole thing, I guess. With my finite energy I've been focusing more on work and my partner moving in with me and my upcoming trip to Thailand. I've been exercising a lot, eating decently usually, but sometimes sharing cookie or a pint of (soy) ice cream with M. It's stress eating, plain and simple. But my weight is still going down, though very slowly. And I weight lift and run on a regular basis. So I'm having a hard time caring much right now.

Speaking of Thailand, I'm going there for 18 days starting next week. I'm going to eat, drink, sleep, walk, and not worry about any of this. Weight, work, or otherwise.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Could be better

Ei-Nyung asked me how my latest weight loss challenge is going, and I said it could be going better. Here's my weight chart for the last three weeks, since my last blog entry:



I lost weight steadily through the holiday. Horray! This isn't surprising, actually: I eat less at home than I do at work. Since coming back to work on January 3rd my weight has been flat, despite going to the gym every week day. More proof for you, Seppo, that the food you take in is WAY more important than the exercise you do. It's been easier to get the gym every day than to stop myself from eating 600 calories of cookies and trail mix and chocolates and whatnot nearly every day.

I did a small "talk to myself in the mirror, today is all you can control" pep talk this morning. Went to the spinning class at lunch. Ate two cookies in the afternoon.

I don't know the answer, really. I know I can lose more weight if I really want to. Maybe I don't really want to. I've lost $10, that's pretty much the only thing I know right now.