FAIL

As my son loves to say regarding anything that doesn't quite work out how it's supposed to...

FAIL

Today's numbers are not good - nor should they be.  I weighed in today at 220.  Which means it took about 2 weeks to gain back all the weight I lost during the "starving" week. 

What's the lesson here?  Simple.  I cannot eat whatever I want whenever I want if I'm going to actually make a long term dent in my weight.
Lesson two.  Plateaus are REALLY bad for me. I really lose my umph.

Week one - big loss, down 6 (1440 cal a day average)
Week two  - nothing, small gain (1559 cal a day average)
Week three - gain all back - total of 6 ( 2256 cal a day average) WHAT???

I'm thinking about joining Weight Watchers.
According to their old points program I should shoot for 1300 calories a day.  This will be the plan for Week 4.   I just love experiments.

I'll let ya' know what happens.

Seriously -

I think I should start weighing myself on Fridays... I like those numbers much better.

This morning, 217.6.  Last Friday - 214.

So, what happened this weekend, huh?  No idea.  It is true that I ate more than 1400 calories per day.  In fact, it looks like when you add in the weekend, I averaged about 1559 calories a day for the week.  Saturday and Sunday I posted some big numbers - Sat. 1669, Sun. 2424.

I'm just beside myself and feel like an absolute failure.  The first week I felt like I was starving myself at 1440 calories/avg. per day.  So, increasing it just a bit I didn't think I was going to see such a huge gain. 

I really want to believe in the calorie counting thing.  It's logical and makes sense to me - it just doesn't seem to be working. 

I resolve to continue this experiment for 2 more weeks and then see where I am.  If all else fails - it's back to Atkins... and I so don't want to do that.

The Stats

So here's the stats.
In January of 2010 I started off the year at 244. I was every bit of a size 22.
I spent 2010 running a bit and focusing on organic eating sprinkled with major binges and months of inactivity.  All told - I ended up the year at 221. (down 23 - not even 10% of my body weight - shit)

Fast forward to January of 2011.  The jumping off point here is 221.  I'm wearing a size 18.  My waist size is a 41 and my hips a 52. 

I'm going to post these three stats every Monday. 

Here's the plan. 
My goal is to lose 5 lbs a month every month with the deadline November 30, 2011.  My 40th birthday.
If successful I will be 166 on my 40th and I'm here to tell you I haven't seen 166 since I was about 18.

Simple, right?