Looking to lose an extra human I apparently picked up along the way

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It's that time again, time for drunk posting! {crowd applause}

We settled up the tab at the bar and the Miller High Life tab was $15.00, my expert knowledge of the prices indicates that this means I had five Champagne of Beers. But my friend also cajoled me (and do you know anyone else who can use the word 'cajoled' while drunk) into having a couple of whiskey shots with him (something like a dragonmoraggon or something like that, Scottish I'm pretty sure). So add a couple of those on there. So I skipped dessert today and was probably about 140 cals short on the rest of today's food, so that cancels out two of my High Lifes. The three remaining High Lifes are 420 cals, and I don't know what the whiskey was. 100 a piece maybe? So that's maybe 620 cals extra. I figure I'm running a deficit of about 1100 calories a day on my normal diet, so even with the festivities, I probably still lost weight today.

Tomorrow should be an unusually low weigh in as generally alcohol dehydrates you. That said, I'm not nearly as blitzed as I am sometimes, so maybe that dehydrating effect won't be as large.

No personal training tomorrow which is probably a very good thing.
 
Excellent drunk posting, MrVee :)
 
308 on the scale this morning. Otherwise not too bad really. Didn't sleep long enough though.

Got a little giddy last night and had some fun on other people's diaries. I hope folks don't mind. Still having the IHOP urge, so I'm currently scouring the IHOP website and they don't seem to have anything within my calorie limits. I could walk an extra half block to the Oink Cafe though. Or I could stop posting here and make my own brekkie. Hmm...
 
Haha I'll make sure to stop by your diary when I make a drunken Christmas post in my own! Can't promise either will make much sense... I have a bottle of champagne screaming DRINK ME, think that might be the occasion to bust it open. If we haven't been blown away in this cyclone that's supposed to hit around Christmas!

8 pounds from 200s, woohoo!
 
309.5 this morning, 308.1 on the math model weight. Before today I had been under the model weight for eight straight measurements and 15 of the last 16 days. Before that I had been over for 9 straight. Apparently that's just the way this is going to go. Interesting.

Personal training with a new new personal trainer in about an hour, and then it's lunch and off to the golf course.

Absolutely wrecked a dinner experiment last night, but fortunately the meat (a pork chop) was unharmed. The rest was not edible. Oops. I put a little extra cheese on my salad to make up for the lost calories, but probably wound up eating fewer calories than I should for the day. And my reward this morning was the highest weight total in a week. :)

Hopefully my cookware is okay.
 
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Hi Vee - hope the hang-over is over....
Glad to hear the pork-chop turned out ok :piggy: - protein is so essential to fight-off the hungreeees..

??math-model-weight??? ...I gotta read back in your diary & figure out what the heck that is.... ????? maybe I'm actually a skiinny model & just don't know it??? lol

Happy Friday dude,

Maryann C.
 
The mathmodel weight is my attempt at filtering out all the noise in my daily weigh-ins to get at the underlying trend. What it does is take the daily ups and downs that jump around, and smooths them out into a smooth curve displaying an underlying trend. Here's a graph which may be easier to understand:

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The red dots are my actual weigh ins on the numbered day. July 1 is '0', and since I didn't get a reliable scale until early August, the first weigh in was on day 33. The blue dots are results for the model which based on the daily weigh ins, but smooths them out into a curve. I feel like this is more representative of my actual weight than any single daily number (or even a moving average).

Now the model does change (a little) with each weigh in: if the daily number is unusually low or high, the curve changes a little to better fit the new numbers. However those changes tend to be much less dramatic than what you normally see from day to day.

And yes, I am a math nerd. But for once I decided to use my powers for good instead of evil.
 
I have reached a new low. No I didn't pass out in the alley behind the bar, I reached a new low weight: 307.5 this morning. Model weight 307.7.

Lotsa sales at the grocery this week, but it's all in "family style" packages so I have to spend some time today vacuum wrapping and freezing the meats. Will definitely get in an hour or so of basketball (or functional equivalent), but I have to fit it in around a bunch of housework. Because of this I've decided to give myself most of the day off from work, other than answering work e-mails. Maybe a work related tweet or two if I'm feeling witty.

EDIT: crap, just checked the news. Definitely not feeling witty now. :cry:
 
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A valuable cooking lesson was completed today as I tried a similar pork and rice dish as the last catastrophe, but instead of following a recipe on the internet, just sort of used my own common sense about how pork and rice are cooked (both are steamed in the same pan in this one). Pork chop on a bed of BBQ rice was quite tasty. An adjustment may need to take place to get the rice done quicker and/or the pork done slower (rice was slightly chewy, pork slightly dry), but it conceptually worked pretty well. Plus there's no reason to limit it to BBQ sauce either.
 
307 this morning with a math model weight of 307.2.

We're about a week away from the peak of winter here (the 23rd of December averages as the coldest day of the year in Phoenix), and today it's only gonna be about 57 and rainy. That makes it not a good day for mountain hiking, at least not with my equipment. I had no energy yesterday on the basketball court after a busy Thursday, so I'm trying to figure out my exercise plan today. I suppose I could just do treadmill but I've been trying to avoid cable news TV after yesterday's tragedy and that's all they show at the club.

The following series of math model weights are only 18 days away:

Jan. 2 = 300.8
Jan. 3 = 300.5
Jan. 4 = 300.1
Jan. 5 = 299.8
Jan. 6 = 299.4
Jan. 7 = 299.1

Time for brekkie!
 
Generally I have about a fluctuation rate of around 2 pounds over or below my model weight. So once it gets to 301 or so in the model it could happen any day. Just back from visiting the parents (they live on the other side of town, so I usually spend at least a night there). Eating there can be a challenge as I'm no longer in charge of my food and they usually have tempting snacks, but I think I did a better than usual job this weekend.

Training tomorrow at 10am.
 
Nice work on the snacks, it's going to be like that for the next week I think. Lots of snacks to avoid at family and friend's houses.
 
306.5 (exactly what the model says) and personal training in 40 minutes. Today was weigh in day for the challenge too.
 
According to the NIH model (not my own), I'm on pace to lose 125 pounds by July 1, 2013 which would be the one year mark (my own model has it at 135 but I'm not overly confident with it that far out). It has me breaking the 300 pound barrier on January 7, mine says January 6. It has me reaching 100 pounds lost on March 29, mine has March 18. Finally it has me breaking the 200 pound barrier on March 4, 2014 (and mine is definitely not accurate that far out).

Why do I care? Well, it helps me a little to have a perspective on where I'm at and where I'm going. I dug a massive hole for myself and the journey back can seem a little daunting without that perspective. It isn't going to take 'forever,' it's going to take until March 4, 2014. If I wanted to, I could still go to Brazil for the World Cup in excellent physical condition. I'd be almost two years younger than Daniel Craig when he filmed Skyfall, and have much better hair. Leo Gorcey was still playing a teenager in movies at that age (though not convincingly and for the last time).

When you feel like you've pissed away a dozen years of your life, these things weigh on you a bit (pun intended). So it is nice enough to know I'll still have plenty of time to enjoy my new life when I get there.
 
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