Working my way down, a bit at a time

Some years ago, during one of my visits to China, I was horrified to discover I’d almost got up to … a certain weight. Now I’m trying to work my way back down to that weight.

And almost there. I read a book last year that laid out how almost all weight loss methods work, and then stop working. At the end of it, it claimed that the proper way to lose weight was with periodic fasting. That seems to work for me. Two weeks ago I was down to certain-weight-plus-14; this morning, it’s certain-weight-plus-1.5. I did two fasting periods, and I’ll end the most recent tomorrow.

Till the last day or so, I barely noticed, and I found that eating nothing for a few days is much preferable to eating too little for weeks at a time. I’m a fan of, and believer in, low-carb diets, and I’ll be looking to get back on that for maintenance, after achieving my current target weight.

Of course, then I’ll have to start planning for my next target: the weight level I had to meet to satisfy Army requirements. And maybe, after that, I’ll begin aiming toward what was my active adult weight before I passed age 50.

Small steps, and keep making them.