Tuesday, August 11, 2009

The Hacker's Diet: July 2009

At some point in June I realized that I needed to get serious so I buckled down and stopped snacking. Made a huge difference. Here we go with the stats again:
July 1: 169.0
July 31: 166.1
Lost in July: 2.9 lbs
Lost in 2009: 6.0 lbs
To go: 6.1 lbs.
It would have been better but for a 9 day road trip where I pretty much ate whatever I wanted and was on vacation.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

The Hacker's Diet: June 2009

About this time last year I stopped trying to lose weight. Partly because I was within 5 pounds of my target weight and also because it was summer time and I had so much going on.

My minimum weight last year was 164.2 lbs -- which is 25.8lbs lighter than the starting weight in 2007.

Over the last year I slowly gained some of that back. During the spring of this year I got back up to 172 (about a pound a month!) and that was unacceptable.

So here I am again, working it off. My goal is again 160 and I started June with 12lbs to go. Let's see how I did.
Note that this graph is different from the previous ones, which were generated by the Hacker Diet's spreadsheets. This graph came from Google Docs, which FINALLY has added a 'min/max' range for its vertical values. Now I do all my tracking in Google Docs because I can update from anywhere -- even my iPod -- though I understand there's an app for that already.

The Statistics:

Final June #: 169.21

Lost in March: 3.06lbs

Pounds to Go: 9.21 lbs.