Current weight: 309.4
Difference from last entry: +0.2
Difference from 2009 starting weight (316.6): -7.2
Bad food choices counteract good portion control.
Up a minimal amount of weight.
Remembering the basics, including drinking lotsa water.
A new anchor! And worry about my next vacation
Current weight: 30X?
Show notes:
Recovering from the effects of vacation. Camping is fun, but it doesn’t lend itself to eating well. Too much bad food = weight gain, and I am expecting at least a 5 lb. gain this week.
A fun exercise variation: I take a different train to work, then walk from there. This increases the walking distance to work from 5 minutes to 20 minutes. Instant extra activity points!
Plus confessions of laziness and being lax.
Current weight: 306.6
Difference from last entry: 0
Difference from 2009 starting weight (316.6): -10
Because of the holiday weekend, I didn’t really weight in this week. I skipped the Weight Watchers meeting ‘cuz my week was simply too hectic. Th enext mtg is on Tuesday; I should have a new update with my updated weigh-in then.
Cheers!
Current weight: 306.6
Difference from last entry: -2
Difference from 2009 starting weight (316.6): -10
Show notes:
Down a total of 10 pounds so far this year. Yay me! This is an important milestone to me.
Summertime heat is here. I hate summer. Too damned hot, makes my lunchtime walk almost impossible. So I am changing things up, taking a different train in the morning so I have to walk 20 minutes to get to the office.
Watch out for liquid calories! It’s easy to wreck one’s diet and not even realize it by drinking sugar-sweetened drinks. Via Our Lady of Weight Loss:
Liquid Calories: Evil, Alluring and Dangerous – Our Lady of Weight
Do you find it impossible to stop snacking? Here are 50 activities to do instead of snacking. Note that having sex is suspicously absent from the list. Hmmm…
theworldaccordingtoeggface: 50 Things to do instead of snacking
Tip of the week: Put things back! When grocery shopping, stop every couple of aisles and see if there’s anything in your cart which isn’t conducive to your new life style. If there is, put it back on the shelf. 
That’s it for this week. Remember to follow us on Twitter, @weightjournal.
Current weight: 308.6
Difference from last entry: -1.4
Difference from 2009 starting weight (316.6): -8
Show notes:
Lost a bit this week. Yay!
Mother’s Day was a problem, but I had been good enough during the week to minimize the damage.
Hydroxycut is in the news, reminds me of phen-phen from a decade ago.
And it turns out that those of us who are obese might just be addicted to junk food.
2002 Study:
Reduction in Dopamine correlation with BMI, Result: use over-eating to trigger the reward centers
http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/food/junkfood_addiction/dopamine.html
2008 Study
Very similar: ghrelin.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/humannature/archive/tags/junk+food/default.aspx
http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v11/n4/full/oby200368a.html
Video entries are fun! I don’t promise I’ll do them every week, but I’ll sure try.
Current weight: 310
Difference from last entry: 0
Difference from 2009 starting weight (316.6): -6.6
Show notes:
Current weight
Eating out
Strange week schedule-wise
Snacks and binging
Food for the overweight like drugs for addicts?
I’ll be back with another video update next week!
