Who's stopped eating all the pies?

17 January 2006   11:11 PM

You know those new year resolutiony thingies? Where you insist you'll cut down on the drinking? You'll never, ever, do anything that stupid again, and so on? Well, one of the common ones - come on, join in if you know the chorus - is "I must lose weight".

So I thought shall I join Weight Watchers, or something like that? No, 'cos I'm a bloke and I'll feel silly. Besides, I've got the (probably quite wrong) impression that these sort of places think you're naughty if you slip an extra carrot on your dinner, and they will probably think that going out drinking is a bad thing.

And if that's not enough, they charge you money to tell you you're too fat. Well, bugger that.

So I'll do it by myself. Of course, that way, you remove the incentive of everyone publicly knowing if you've done well or badly in any particular week. Unless....

So I had a plan. Record how much I weigh at various points (those of you who have tried dieting before may know this by the terminology "weighing yourself"), store it in a database, and report it here. Except quite frankly all I care about is the incentive to lose weight. Not telling you lot how much I weigh. Which frankly is none of your damn business - no offence.

So what I have decided to report on is my average weekly weight loss since the 1st of January 2006, how much weight I've lost in the last week (or whatever the appropriate time period is that I actually remembered to get weighed in), and when the last time I stored my weight in the database was. This means that you can see if I stop recording it, and choose to infer that I'm doing badly.

Anyway, here we go...

Latest Standings

Okay, on average, I have lost 1.2 pounds per week since January 1st 2006.

The last measured time period was from Tuesday 17 Jan 2006 to Tuesday 04 Apr 2006, during which time I lost 10 pounds.

Finally, the last time that I recorded a weight was 1612 days ago. Dearie me. That's a good while ago. Which seems to indicate that I've either forgotten about this completely, or I'm not doing very well and don't want to share it with you.