OK, so I've only lost 4 pounds in the last two months, which comes down to about .5 pounds a week, HOWEVER, I did find out an interesting little fact during my four pound, two month journey:
For every pound you want to lose, an average human that burns about 1800-2000 calories on their own (by just sitting, walking, breathing every day), you have to burn an ADDITIONAL 3500 calories to burn ONE POUND. This, of course, is in ADDITION to your regular 1600-1800 calorie diet, which means that losing weight just comes down to an equation, net calories, energy in, energy out.
Although this equation can be depressing at times, it simplifies the issue. As long as I burn/take in less than 1200 net calories, then I should be burning 600 calories a day or so extra, which means about one pound a week. Technically.
In other news, I'm 212 pounds. This number is significant to me because I actually remember weighing myself in 2004 and seeing this number, which means, if we're going with the regressive I-remember-when-I-weighed-this-much model, I'm back to age 24. Or in other words, if you put this weight loss journey into tri-mesters (238-212; 211-186; 185-159), I have reached the second trimester. Math soothes me sometimes, it's true.
Lastly, I've decided that in order to commemorate this event, and to push me over the edge for the next 26 pounds, I am going to participate in a two month Fitness Challenge at a local gym - a gym that focuses on strength and endurance training, but doesn't have any electrical equipment. The average person that participates fully in this challenge loses about 17.7 pounds of body fat and gains 5.5 of muscle. I'm hoping I can just lose the full 23.2 pounds, and pick up the muscle on a rainy day.
