I've been unable to keep up the momentum of my early blogging, but I have kept up with my weight loss. The last few weeks have slowed or stalled out, but I've kept eating less, moving more and the pounds are staying off. Progress is still being made, and I'm tweaking my approach again to drop that last bit of fat and start building muscle. Overall I'm happy about the transformation that has taken place in my body and in my life. Being in control of my weight has given me the feeling of being in control of my life as a whole.
Still, it bothers me that I haven't kept up with the website like I wish I had been. I've also done an acceptable job of keeping my records up, recording my weight, taking daily pictures and weekly measurements, and making notes of things I wanted to blog about in the process. There are more gaps in that information (particularly the photos), but overall I think I have a good amount of data that I can look back on for trends and simple motivation.
But recording the data is only half of the equation. The other half is posting that data publicly, via this website. It's been six months now, 188 days in total and I've only blogged the first 70 days. This suggests that my approach needs to be reconsidered. Data entry needs to be streamlined, certainly. A more friendly update schedule would certainly help. But mostly, I need to keep on top of things instead of being in this constant state of catching up.
So this post represents the first step in that change. I'd still like to post my historical records, to get all the data I've accumulated online, but my focus right now is getting back into the accountability, to posting daily and not falling so far behind that I blow it off for months at a time. Hopefully I'll be posting pictures and weight loss information soon, but for now, even just creating a text placeholder will help me get restarted.
