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End of month update - weighed in at 180.5 this morning. That is down 3.6 for the month, almost identical to the 3.7 I lost in my first month of dieting.
All in all, I'm pretty happy with this given some of the challenges I had this month:
- messed up my heel on first Sunday of the month, wasn't able to work out for three weeks.
- very heavy work + personal life schedule this month hampered getting good sleep, working out as much as I wanted once I could work out again over last 1/3 of month.
I did have significantly more discipline with foods I ate, particularly over the past couple of weeks. I had hoped this would be a heavy exercise month and then start working on food/portion discipline this summer, but the injury slowed me down so I adjusted in order to avoid having a "fatty" month.
Just a little bummed that I didn't get down to 170-something. I weighed in at 180.3 a couple of days ago and never could get the number down 0.4 pounds. It doesn't matter at all in the long-term, but I thought it was a realistic goal for this month to cross that barrier.
I've got one shirt that I'm using as my weight loss measuring stick ... got it as a gift for Christmas and it was too tight but I liked the shirt and told myself that I could lose some weight rather than trying to return it. I first wore it at the start of March and then again at the end of April. I'm happy to report that it fits significantly better now than it did then (still a bit tighter through midsection, but not as much across the board), but I don't think it will really fit properly until I've gotten down to 165-170. I'll keep breaking that out once a month to gauge progress by something besides the scale.
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