Time Travel

Okay, that title will make sense in a second. First off, it is Friday, and, as none of you know, Friday is my official weigh-in day. All other weigh-ins are for just monitoring my progress, but Friday lets me know whether or not I hit my goal for the week. This weeks goal? 265. My weight? 264.2, which is an all-time low by about 2 pounds!! I did say a few days ago I was on the cusp, but it feels good to see this number after hovering at 266-267 for 3 days straight. This is how weight loss works.

I've been thinking about my long term goals and what they mean with respect to my weight in the past. When I first crossed into the 270's in September, I felt like I was going back to my final year of college. Slowly as I progressed downward, I remembered more and more how much I weighed as a junior. I believe that threshold is 255-275, which means that I am, once again, on the cusp of something significant: my weight as a sophomore. It will take getting under 255 for me to feel truly like I accomplished this feat, but as I created my goal for this week - which, adjusted based on my current weight, is an extra pound lower than the original plan - I felt the significance of 259. The last time I was 259 was early in my junior year, a weight I'm fairly certain was only reached due to a brief weight loss binge. But 259 makes me think of sophomore year, and so it will be that when I first step on the scale and see, for the first time in recent memory, that number breaching the 250's, I will magically be whisked away to the year 2009.

This is a heartening thought. I will have to traverse an enormous bridge in order to ascent even further into the past (I gained 25 delicious pounds that year), but once I do, indeed, cross into the 220's again, I will be, at long last, at my old average weight. This means a flood of nostalgia from the 2000's up until about 2008. 220-225 is the general number. I plan to be in this vicinity by April.

But don't forget, we're talking 100 pounds. The real goal here is to be sub-200, even if that just means I'm 199. Don't be surprised if the rest of my body weight is pure muscle by this point.

(I'm not kidding.)