Brother Simpleton

It’s been exactly 4 weeks since I started tracking my weight. Even though I had a feeling lately that my weight loss has somewhat slowed, in fact this is not so: for the last 3 weeks, I’ve been loosing exactly 4 pounds per week. Overall, I lost 18 pounds in 4 weeks. The red “trend” (moving average) line goes down pretty steadily. I am quite satisfied by the progress.

For some time already, I am feeling rather comfortable with my diet. I don’t feel any of the wonderful things some people report after substantial diet changes (like a boost of energy), but I also don’t have any of the negative effects I’ve expected — no headaches, no tiredness, no hunger. In short, I feel just about “normal”.

This allows me to start trying different experiments. So far I am doing two things:

Everything is going quite well so far. I’ve lost 10 pounds in two weeks, and then two more next day.

Since it is considered too fast, I am going to slowly increase my daily calorie budget until I reach my target weight loss rate (2 pounds/week). So, for now, I am changing it from 1000 to 1200 calories per day.

I am quite surprised how well my body accepted 1000 calories per day, though. I am almost never hungry, and I don’t feel more tired or exhausted than usual. Apparently, all the extra food I used to feed myself was really, really unnecessary.

An observation: every day I have a yogurt for breakfast, I loose a pound. When I have something else (in the same calorie range), the weight stays the same. Weird. Must be a coincidence.