I’ll have to remember to update the checklist tomorrow, but tonight I’m working on the laptop. So, I’ll do some copy and paste and hope I don’t miss anything. The desktop machine’s fan (the one on the motherboard) has developed a nasty vibration… but only periodically. I’m keeping an eye on it, and won’t run the machine if it fails. But I really don’t want to put a new fan on the board. If it was the main fan I’d likely just suck it up and buy a new one and swap it out. Over the many years (oops, decades I suppose now) that I’ve owned computers I’ve never changed that component. Of course, it’s only the last couple of computers that have even had fans on the boards.

So I turned off the machine, and it will likely be fine in the morning. If nothing else it gives me a break from the scanning.

Day: 5 / 84

Exercise: Resistance A1 - Yes
Warm-up: Yes

Recovery: Yes

Food (2100 max): 2093 - Yes
Macros (40P, 25F, 35C): 40.2P, 24.9F, 34.9C - Yes

Water (4L min): Yes

Weight (AM): 253.4
Weight (Day 1): 256.8
Change: -3.2

Overall - 100%

So, overall not a bad day. I also put together my last cooking project (well, except for the marmalade) and tomorrow will divide the stewed beef into 10 double portions. Yes, I made 20 servings of stewed beef (with a few onions and mushrooms). It’s really a good thing that we have large pots and roasting pans. It makes things like today so much easier.

On tap for tomorrow is colouring my hair, and we have two of the neighbours coming over for a drink. That will be a challenge as (a) I’m not planning to drink, and (b) I’m not planning to eat either. The fact that they’re coming over tomorrow night means that I’ll likely feel that I need to make the family room look a little better than it does at the moment. Although they will only be in the living room….

Who am I kidding, I’ll probably clean up.

First, the trend chart for the past year:

Everything looks good, except for the end of the year. It shows me that I have to really watch myself. This doesn’t surprise me, but somewhere along the way I really thought I was just ticking along, without a care in the world. Well, the end of the year showed me I was wrong.

Total loss: 92.8 pounds

This looks good until you remember that I was always averaging just over 2 pounds a week, so it should have ended somewhere about 11-12 pounds higher. Oh well, the past is the past.

So, I’m starting 2009 at 253.4 pounds. I’d love to think that I could end the year at 150, and it’s probably the goal I have in the back of my mind. However, what’s a more realistic goal for 2009?

1. Before the end of it, get under 175

Why that number, because at 174 I’d have a BMI under 30, which would be the first time as an adult that I’ll be simply overweight, not just obese. I know I was 180-something getting out of highschool (if not 200+), so it would be a big deal for me. Silly, isn’t it, to think that being classed as overweight would be a goal.

When I look at it overall, that’s 79.4 pounds in total, which translates to just a little over a pound and a half a week. Even with my bad Nov/Dec I still averaged over that for 2008. So I really do think it’s achievable. On that note, I have a resistance training session to do…