Daily Weigh

Intermittent Low Calorie Diet

This a commitment to weighing myself every morning and writing down the numbers. I don’t do this expecting to see loss after loss after loss. I do it because I really want to get to grips with how the actual shedding of pounds works.

I’ve made it a public exercise, not because it would be particularly interesting for you, but because it’s another accountability tool for me, especially during times (like every day) when I would normally embrace the “What the hell” attitude and eat another cracker  – for no reason other than it seems, at the time, that the cracker might make the stress of balancing a bank account/proof-reading the book/looking at the unmown lawn/phoning the doctor go away.

I also know that the scale isn’t really the best measure of success but, for me, it works as a good indicator that I’m heading in the right direction – along with which hole the belt does up to and how I feel after the first mile at the top of the hill.

I hope that someday I might see the number 140 and maybe even a little less. It may take months so don’t check in breathlessly expecting miracles.

Just to be clear, the appropriate response to the numbers decreasing is not “Way to go Millie!” but:

• “Hmmmmm, interesting”

And the appropriate response to numbers increasing is not “You can DO this Millie!” but:

• Hmmmmm, interesting”

That’s the vibe of the activity.

*An asterisk means it’s the day after a Very Low Calorie Day

January 12
11-157.5
*12-156.5
*13-155.8
14-154.4
15-155.4 – after a feast with friends.
16-155
*17-153.6
*18-153.6
19-153.4
20-153.6
21-152.6
22-154.4 – after heavy white flour day. Interesting.
23-153.2
*24-151.6
*25 -151.8
26-151.2
27-Feb 4th – took a little time off weighing
February 2012
5-152.1
6-
*7-
*8 -