Quick weight recap. As some of you know I note my weight more or less every morning and I crunch this data in Libra, a very nice Android app. Every year I do a recap. This year I've included all three years in the chart, with little green dots when something significantly positive (for my weight loss) takes place and a red dot for something negative. I'll write this year's main events after the break.
This year hasn't gone as planned. In fact, for a while it looked like I was going to go off tracks completely. But I steered back at the last minute, and ended up with a glorious 1lb loss for 2011.
2011 started well enough. Despite the expected holiday bump, I kept the course and kept losing the weight. Then in late February I made a fateful decision. My game development schedule was beginning to slide, my motivation to complete it and the growing competition on Android meant I wanted to finish it as quickly as possible. For that I needed more time. And working out takes time. So I took a break from exercising to crunch for the game. Turned out not to be a great decision. If we isolate the crunch time alone it's not so bad, but going off course for so long meant it would be that much harder to get back on it.
When the game was released I did my best to get back on track, and succeeded in a way. But a few moments later I went to Disney World for a vacation, and when I returned I completely failed to return to my good habits.
For the next few months I would take it really easy. Step on the bike only once in a while, eat like crap and overall returning to a lifestyle that had made me into the near-300 lbs man I hated. But the slide was so slow that I always believed (correctly it turned out) I could steer it back. In November I saw my trend going up, and decided it would not be acceptable to finish 2011 with a higher trend than I began. So I cut back on desserts, returned to the bike on a regular basis and restarted Dance Central, now Dance Central 2, with increased dedication.
And so I end 2011 with 1 lost pound over 2010. Considering I was aiming at losing 40, it's a rather colossal failure. But considering I'm still going "the right way", I dare say it could've been worst. Now aiming for a 30 pounds loss for 2012. I think it's reasonable, or to put it in a way more fitting for 2012, it's not the end of the world.
