Tag: weight

daily weight tracking – one year later

I’ve been weighing myself every morning (give or take) for a year, so it seemed like a good time to look at the results:

Here’s the graph:

Overall, I lost ~11 pounds in 2009. Optimistically, that’s around a pound a month, which is nothing spectacular but not bad considering I wasn’t on any diet in particular. Also, the overall trend was downward and I never got even close to my original weight.

Pessimistically, one pound a month is pretty darn low, and I seemed to stall out around September/October, and I’m not at my goal weight of 180, which is really above where I should be, according to BMI. And yeah, I know BMI is kinda arbitrary, but I’m not sure how else to find a healthy target weight.

Hopefully resetting the graph will help me focus on getting down to 180 and beyond!

weighty thoughts

This weekend I was proud of myself as my weight hit its lowest level since I started tracking it this time. (since then it’s bounced back up a little, but I’m going to ignore that for now) So I thought it would be a good time to look back at my previous attempts at weight loss to see how well I did.

And I had forgotten that (last very short attempt notwithstanding) I’ve done much better than this in the past. Right after college I was a full 15 pounds lighter than I am now, and even an attempt a few years later I got down to 5 pounds below my current weight. I really can’t decide if this should be encouraging (it is possible for me to weigh less!) or discouraging (I’ve been trying for 2.5 months and only lost 7 pounds!).

On Friday I discovered that GnuCash (which we use to do our finances) stores its data in an XML format! So I wrote a script to generate a report on how much we spend on various categories each month (GnuCash has some builtin facilities to do this, but I couldn’t quite get it to do what I wanted). The report looks pretty but I don’t feel comfortable posting it to the web, so you’ll have to take my word for it.

Related: I found this awesome ColorBrewer which helps you pick a set of colors for maps or graphs or whatever. This is great news since I suck at picking colors!

The British military put some of their troops on LSD to see how it would affect them. The results are amusing but not really surprising.

I miss music

I think I miss singing. Last week I couldn’t get the Durufle Requiem out of my head (beautiful piece of music), and today I have the same problem with the Mozart Requiem, probably due to this 30 Rock episode. Maybe after the whole wedding thing I’ll look into rejoining Austin Civic Chorus.

Another bit of self-reflection: The last few weeks I’ve been waaaay too moody. Insignificant things will bring me down, but then I’ll feel better for no reason. I’m not sure how to work on that exactly.

We’re seeing Watchmen at midnight Thursday and I’m quite excited!

Also, my weight sure bounces around a lot.