Back up to 280.
Bike broke down, could not ride till it got fixed. How to you break 7 spokes at once???
Then pouring heavy rain for a week, could not ride.
Got sick, could not do *kitten* for a week plus.

Then went on vacation, which had loads of exercise. LOTS of walking for several days. 1 day at a water park, where I sat in a wave pool with my youngest son. Seems like a no exercise event, but I basically did underwater squats with a 40 pound weight for 6 hours, after doing 30 flights of stairs (gotta get up to the slides somehow). But super crappy food choices completely negated any exercise for the whole trip.

July was a shitbox month for physical health, but ended pretty damn well for mental health.

Feeling good to go now, and back to cycling.
Doing a 180km (85km a day for 2 days) cycling tour for MS later this month.

260#s

Lost 18 pounds in 2.5 weeks, nothing since. Regardless 18 in 30 is a damn good motivation to keep going.

278.2 because *kitten* scales. Exactly the same weight I was at 1 year ago tomorrow.

Xmas eating was not great, but I paid attention and kept myself in check. Only exceeded calories 3-4 in the last month and exercised evryday, but still gained weight.

Disappointing but despite the scales I fell pretty damn good in general. Hopefully this good feeling will turn into actual weight loss.

I choose to skip today's weigh in. Weighed yesterday and it showed a 1 pound gain. That *kitten* ain't right. Not willing to accept the gain, choosing to assume it is "water weight".

Going to wait a week, keeping on keeping on, and check again.

I definitely do see improvement in some aspects of my life. What I see no change in is my weight. I gain and lose some throughout the year, every year, but I seem to be maintaining the same over all weight throughout all the years (15+). So if monitoring my intake has zero effect on my weight, why continue?

Tracking what I eat has nothing to do with getting up and going for a walk/ride.

Been logging here, somewhat consistently, for nearly 3 years (holy *kitten*?!?). In 3 years, I have gone up and down 40 pounds. Same amount I went up and down for the 3-5 years before that. I remember Christmas 2010 when a relative I had not see in in almost a year commented on how much weight I lost. I hadn't really. Just saw me at low tide so to speak. 265 pounds. About what I weigh right now.

I make the conscious choice to be as active as I possibly can. Walking to/from work every day. Cycling a couple times or more a week. Starting to lift weights again too. Those, undoubtedly, lead to better fitness and better sleep. Seem to have little to do with my weight loss though.

I do not always weigh my food, frequently guess. But I like to try and over estimate. Rather say I eat more than I do. When I do weigh the food, I compare to my estimate and find I am usually pretty good at over estimating. Except cheese and chicken, used to always get that wrong. Closer now. I am certain weighing everything every time would be a sure fire way to be dead accurate and will help weight loss. I am also sure I do not have the mindset to maintain that.

I feel healthier than I did when I started here. Healthier than I have for a long time. No doubt about that. And I should be focused on that. But when the main thing I was focused on is never changing, leaving me the forever "Big Guy" it feels like *kitten*. That is what gets me down. That is my struggle.

I've reset my MFP goals a number of times, though to be honest I have no clue what to set it for. I know my weight, but that's it. Currently set to just under 1,800 calories per day.

Sedentary? Lightly active? Opinions vary. Posted my query on MFP forum and, after multiple responses the consensus was try one and see if it works. If not try another. Brilliant

Weighing dense foods like block cheese was an eye opener for me. But I do not eat cheese daily, or even weekly.

I eat identical meals for breakfast amd lunch almost every Monday to Friday and some weekends. Scanned labels and measured scoops. Little variation. Healthy. Low calories. Fillng. Enjoyable.

Some evenings I eat right. Others, not so much. But over the long haul, I should be losing. I ain't.

Tomorrow I shall weigh more foods and reconfigure my MFP settings.