Really should ignore that scale

[avram]

Given that I know my weight fluctuates tremendously on a daily basis, and that I’ve pretty much gotten myself to the point where high readings don’t upset me all that much, really, and that my weight isn’t the primary indicator of the progress of my exercise plan, and that it’s therefore already been established that I shouldn’t mope after a high reading, it would be hypocritical of me to rejoice at a low one, right?

Well, fuck that. I’m 278.5 today. Holy shit. It actually took me a couple of seconds of blinking at the scale readout to comprehend the number. Crashed right through that 280 barrier. I’ll probably be back up above it tomorrow, but this is the first sign that my current course will bring me down below it, and maybe for good in another week or two. I don’t know how it happened given how much I’ve pigged out two nights this week.

In other news, that new domain went through. I’d discovered that grumer.com, which had been registered a few years back by a Mexican company whose name abbreviated to GruMer, and had then been held by domain speculators for a few years (presumably after the Mexican company went out of business), was available, so I grabbed it. This means that from here on I’ll get the email I’d been missing when Lisa uses the wrong TLD for my email address. There’s just a one-page placeholder site up there now; I don’t have anything I consider portfolio-worthy at the moment.

Comments

[jmhm.livejournal.com]

been there, done that, got the tshirt and it may fit in a few more pounds.

280 was my rubicon too.

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Ironically enough, the pigging out may be what made the weight drop. When you're on an eating plan your body gets into a rhythmn, often burning calories conservatively. When you feed it more, it gets psyched out or something and starts burning harder and faster. It doesn't make much sense to me, but I've had the same experience many times when I've been on an eating program and then veer away from it for a day or so.

[avram]

That'd be pretty cool. I've seen the eat-more-and-lose-weight thing before too. That may be why the nutrition section of Hot Point allows going off the plan and eating whatever you want one meal each week. Well, probably not; the reason given is that it's a coping mechanism for cravings; Hot Point is supposed to be a plan you follow forever, and most people would get upset at the idea of giving up a favorite forbidden food forever.

I love diet advice that involves eating more. A while back I encountered the recommendation that if one is going to eat a cheeseburger, one should have it with onions and tomatoes, because these will bind to some of the fat and keep it from being absorbed into your body, thus neutralizing some small part of the bad effects of the cheeseburger.