One Year Status Report
Today marks one year since this post, my initial appearance on the Hollando Diet blog. So join me, and let’s look back.
One year ago I weighed 182 pounds. This morning, under the same conditions on the same scale, I weigh 162 pounds. I’d been at 185 during the Texas Trip that spawned this little undertaking. So 20 pounds down. I’ve been as low as 159 in the last two weeks, although I didn’t stay down there long enough for it to be work reporting here.
I definitely like being a bit thinner. Although I haven’t had much luck getting under 160, I hit the general area a few months ago, and people have noticed. At a trade conference in Washington back in June several former colleagues and business partners needed an extra thirty seconds to recognize me (and not because they’d forgotten what I looked like!).
Now, Matthew won the cigar challenge. I was pretty close on his heels, absolute-time-elapsed wise, but he lost more and did it in less time, even counting for his head start. So, one year in, I think it’s appropriate to officially name him the winner of the Hollando Diet, Phase 1. We haven’t had all four of us in one place since this all began, but perhaps we can plan an early-February awards ceremony.
So where to? I’m not going anywhere. 155 is still out there. Perhaps graduate school will make things easier - in just five days I will have access to MIT’s palatial new gym (which is actually palatial in the resembles-a-palace sense, rather than the ironic-MIT-shouldn’t-have-a-gym sense). On the other hand, I’ll be showing up for class at 8:30, getting home twelve hours later, and have already been assured by many people that there will be no time for exercise. Maybe if I hang out with the plastic surgery students at the Medical School they can do something for me.