Final Victory?
I returned from Southeast Asia a few days ago, so it’s time to check on the effectiveness of the Southeast Asia Diet. This time I didn’t get sick, which, on balance, is a good thing, but not from the specific perspective of encouraging weight loss. Still, the general Vietnamese diet and the lack of large quantities of particularly fattening foods contributed to some forward progress. This morning I checked in at a shade over 161, which is about as low as I’ve been in the last five years–and over the 20 pound “Hollando Diet” success threshold, too. Plenty of time to knock off another two or three pounds in the next three weeks.
The one (potential!) problem is that I stopped exercising formally for three weeks, although I spent a lot of time walking around, climbing temples in the jungle, and so forth. Just spending a few days in rural Cambodia at the hottest time of the year probably sweated off a pound or two. But yesterday I couldn’t match my pre-trip elliptical settings, so I may have lost some (heavier) muscle as well as fat. Of course, jet-lag may have played a part, too. But if end up at the same weight in three weeks–but in better shape–I won’t complain. But I still want to get far enough below 160 that normal fluctuations won’t take me back over it.