So…. I’ve been having a….problem lately…. with my pants….

And that is, my pants are too big!

As I have posted previously, I have recently been embarking on a bit of a health kick. I still am doing that, at least sort of. As you may or may not be aware, my “revolutionary” diet plan is called “eat less, exercise more”. I haven’t really been exercising more. I do exercise some, but that is mostly just incidental stuff – play basketball occasionally, mowing the lawn, walking around the block, working in the yard, etc.

But I have definitely been eating less. For awhile, I was tracking my caloric intake daily on a website. I haven’t been doing that lately, but I still have been trying to limit myself to approximately 2000 calories a day. Mostly what this entails is not snacking in the middle of the day, and especially at night.

I’ve also been trying to not eat late. I have always heard that not eating right before you go to bed can help weight loss. Though this seems to indicate that that is a myth (Myth #10). So I’m not sure about that. It seems to make sense to me, along with its corollary that eating right after you exercise is good since your metabolism is good. Though I suppose if you think about it, if you didn’t eat right after you exercise, then your high metabolism would be put to work burning off fat stores. So I’m not sure about the timing.

In any case, I feel good about my 2000 calorie diet. The results have been good so far too. As I posted back in March, I was at 210 lbs. We later got a new digital scale, which seemed to indicate that the other scale was off by 4 lbs, so I think my start weight was 214 lbs back on 3/22. I currently tip the scales at 194.4, as measured this morning. 20 lbs in a little more than a month and a half is a pace I don’t expect to continue. Part of that I think is due to the fact that I started (at 214) at the high side of general weight fluctuation.

Goal remains 170 lbs by next March. Phases 2 and 3 involve exercising more as well as eating better. Right now I am just concentrating on eating less. I do believe that exercising more and eating better are both important but I am not currently focusing on that.

I don’t really feel like I’ve lost that much weight, besides my pants problem. Though Carolyn says that she thinks I look skinnier, and I guess she looks at me more… 🙂