In my post about building a better me, I was a bit cagey about my weight loss. I’m going to keep some info secret still, but I thought I’d flesh (see what I did there?) it out a bit more here.

Again, I had not taken a formal baseline after the first of the year as a starting point; I regret doing this, but I was skeptical of my ability to hold fast to anything for a period of time and quite frankly didn’t want to see the number.

After a month of restriction and additional exercies, I was happy to find that I was slipping into some older pants and jeans. For example, I was taking my son to a robotics event in nearby Camden County, and I tried on a pair of black jeans I hadn’t worn in forever.

And they fit.

So I hopped on the scale.

Since that day, I have lost an additional 21 pounds. I have read that it takes about 15 pounds to drop a pants size, so I’m gonna hazzard a guess that I lost between 15 to 20 in January, and then, as you’ll see below, an additional 21. So that’s 36 to 41 pounds total. It’s a good amount to lose, I figured.

But it’s also a safe amount, really; it’s about two pounds a week. Between 4/6/2023 and 4/18/2023, I dropped four pounds, so that’s the deal.

date Week Pounds Lost
01/28/2023 Week 04 ?
02/30/2023 Week 05 .5
02/07/2023 Week 06 1
02/10/2023 Week 06 1.5
02/17/2023 Week 07 1
02/24/2023 Week 08 1
03/08/2023 Week 10 5
03/15/2023 Week 11 2
03/27/2023 Week 13 1.5
04/06/2023 Week 14 3
04/18/2023 Week 16 4