Four pounds

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I’ve been dissatisfied with my rate of weight loss. I’ve just finished my third week on the Hot Point Fitness plan. Dropped six pounds in the first week-and-a-half, and not an ounce since. Actually, I’ve bounced up and down twice, but still can’t get below 280. What I’ve been doing is just going to the gym three days a week and doing the weights and aerobic exercise thing. The book suggests going the other three days each week and doing just aerobic work (resting one day each week), which is what I used to do in the old days, so yesterday I went in and did forty minutes on the treadmill. I figured that would give me the extra push I needed.

I gained four pounds overnight.

I’m so tempted to chuck the plan. I’m busting my ass for three fucking hours in that gym three days a week, and maybe it’s improving my musculature, but I want to lose weight too, dammit, and that’s just not happening. And there’s no way in hell I’d be able to do even this much if I was holding down a job at the same time. I’ll stick with it through the fourth week, and then make a decision.

After I showered and dressed I walked around Brooklyn for a while, then went to Pearl Paint for a couple of books, wandered around Chinatown field-testing my new digital camera, and walked back over the Manhattan Bridge, pausing to sketch a rather complex rooftop (yes, that’s all one building):