100-100: A look back at 2007, and forward at 2008

There's no way to splenda-coat this: 2007 was a bust on the weight loss front. I began at around 220 lb and ended at around 210. 

In the first weeks I took off pound after pound, but then... my discipline flagged. It's a PITA to keep writing down every damn calorie you eat in a spreadsheet, and it's difficult to figure calorie counts out on the road. But those are just excuses. I ate more, and my weight stabilized, even though my exercising went way up.

My goal for 2008 is to finish my weight loss -- ideally, by the original 100-100 deadline -- which means I must redouble efforts. Both to diet and to exercise. 

I have been exercising. So the year wasn't a total bust. I ended the year in Florida, swimming up to a mile and running up to two, sometimes both in the same day. Now I am home and my running course is covered with wet, sticky snow. Yecch. And I can't run in the street because the streets have been narrowed by snow, and the days are brutally short. But I will have to find a way to PT. 

I also resolved several long-term health problems in 2007, including a navel hernia (surgery), cataracts (ditto -- I enjoy driving and flying at night now), high blood pressure (for now, medication), and a cardiac arrhythmia (that required a major sacrifice -- cutting my Dr Pepper habit from three to six 2-liter bottles a day, to three to six twelve-ounce cans. But the arrhythmia spontaneously resolved when I stopped saturating my system with caffeine). 

But still there's the One Big Thing. I've redoubled efforts to lose weight, by returning to the system that worked so well -- 1700 calories, max, daily; rigorous recording of everything eaten; Spartan portion control. Can I do it by 30th June? The race, as they say, is on.