Wasting time
I look back over the past two and a half years and wonder why it is taking me so long to get to my goal. I went from 225 to 200 in 12 weeks back in the beginning of 2006. Then again in January of 2008 I was at 200. I dropped down to 187 in March of 2008 and then back up to 200 in June when I started the drug study.
The drug study had me pumped up and helped with my loss again down from 200 to 178. Now I've been maintaining 180 the past couple months.
A friend of mine devised this excel spreadsheet that helps figure out a calorie burn rate based on pounds lost in a period of time. So starting with my weigh-in tomorrow, I'm going to enter my weight tomorrow with the burn rate i've come up with and I believe I will be 170 at Xmas. I wanted to be at 165 for Christmas.
This is based on me consistenly exercising and keeping my net calories at 1200. I can bump it up a tad if I drop the net calories on some days.
I don't want to put a specific date and weight for a set goal cause that always sets me up for failure. What I did with the drug study weigh-ins was I knew I had to lose something. Anything was better than nothing!! And I was able to do it then, and I'm able to do it now.
Done wasting time. I want to be at my goal. I want to just work on maintaining and not have to worry about losing anymore. It's getting old.