This morning’s weigh-in was 241.4, which is 0.4 pounds down from last week. The 9-week loss is 11.2lbs (1.24/week) which is usually the ‘number’ I look at to see how things are going overall. The other little compulsive number I look at is how many days I’ve been ‘on plan’ primarily with food. I still consider a maintenance week ‘on plan’ since I accomplished what I wanted to. So this is day 2 on plan with food.

I’m not entirely unhappy with the week’s progress. I had pretty much decided to go off plan before dinner on Friday, even though I wouldn’t likely have admitted it. The damage overall was minimal, but it’s time to buckle down for a while. I’d really like to see the 9-week chart showing entirely clear, but that’s not going to happen for at least 9 weeks. Sigh….

Next week’s plan is:

Keep the calories around 2000, and since I’m feeling better start working the exercise back in. I still don’t feel like I have a huge amount of energy, which bothers me. It was a struggle to get 30 mins in on the treadmill yesterday, and I’m feeling very unmotivated in general. However, I’ll get three days of lifting in this week (starting today) and see how that goes. I’ve already planned a 2300 calorie day to support it. I’ll aim for early afternoon, which traditionally was my easiest time to lift.