From Obese to Overweight

I notice on my ticker bar that the calculation for my BMI has gone from 32.4 to 29.0

I suppose that is something I should shout about. I can now say I'm "overweight." I'm NO longer "obese". At least that's what the folks who figure these things out say.

I will have to reset my goal weight to get to what they are willing to call a "healthy weight". The highest they will allow me to carry is a lot further down than I have any intention of trying to reach at this point. (I'd have to go down to 158 and I really don't have any desire to WORK to get there.)

I'm running out of steam at chasing down the caloric value of every bite that goes in my mouth. But I have a plan.

I have counted calories long enough now that I know I have a general idea of how much is in what I eat NORMALLY. I can make out some meal plans that keep my calories in a certain range MOST DAYS.

If I can eat as much as I did on Friday and THEN GO BACK TO REASONABLE EATING and not gain weight--which I didn't-- then I think I should be able to have a day a week that I just don't have to watch what I eat.... within limits. I mean, I don't need to eat 10,000 calories or anything like that.

When I make it to a point on the scales that I get on it three times and it says the same thing, I claim that position. I do that even though my weight goes back up a pound or two during the day, or even stays up after a splurge day. I figure I must have done something right or I could never have gotten DOWN to that point, so I claim it. And I find that as I keep on watching what I eat I keep going down.

I'm determined to not "burn out" on this diet. I have to keep this weight off. MY KNEES ARE SO MUCH HAPPIER NOW. Actually I feel better in every way. Not only that, I feel more like exercising. I'm not doing it as much as I hope to later. I'm hoping to switch the time I spend searching for caloric values to exercise time later on.