Two years ago today I started my first substantial, successful weight loss. It was temporarily successful. It wasn't sustained. I lost steadily for 10 months. I have some nice graphs of that time.
Unfortunately the real life graph kept on going to make this one.
I fought to keep my weight near its lowest number for about 7 months then regained it all.
Those red dots are from the records I was keeping then - the blue line is a pretty good approximation of what I remember.
What will happen now? It's too soon to be really sure, but this seems like a good time to start again and do it better.
I've found that in the past, I've been able to use some kind of trigger to switch myself into healthy mode. Today, I'm hoping that starting this blog will be that trigger.
Starting again on my anniversary seems accidental to me. I didn't consciously plan it. However I think it will be a help. Starting the blog now will help too. It's been too easy for me previously to find things difficult and say to myself that I will start again later. Now I've started. There is something special about right now. If I don't keep going now, it may be very hard to get back to a good place like this again, so I'm aiming to keep going.
I think this time of year probably works to help me too. It's easier to eat healthily with summer fruit around and cheerful weather. I remember thinking the first time round that Christmas would be a major hurdle, so early into the process, but I was so psyched that it turned out not to be. It was not good last year though.
At any rate, I'm feeling pretty hopeful. I was quite excited about this last night and though I went to bed too late, I had a hard time getting to sleep because of that.
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