For my long-time readers, you know I had a long hard battle to lose a bunch of weight about five years ago. A lot of weight. Like 150 lbs of weight. When I hit my goal weight, I bought my first kilt.

In the intervening years, between COVID, full-time telework, my own lackadaisical attitude, I put about 2/3rds of that weight back on. I stopped doing the things that made me lose weight, and as a result, I put it back on.

The Wife and I are back on the calorie counting wagon. It’s a hard slog of weighing and measuring what we eat. Making the hard trade-offs. It’s good because we’re doing it together. It makes the shopping easier and the decisions easier.

I’m working my way back to my goal weight, remembering the steps I used last time. One thing that helps is that I’m actually doing exercise this time. Not a lot, and not consistently. Still, that was more that what I did last time. And as much as I hate to admit it, being back in the office helps as well. I only take what I’m going to eat, and I don’t really have ready access to additional food. Well, I have some emergency food, but I make sure that is stuff I really don’t want to eat unless I absolutely need to.

Current weight: 287

First mini-goal: 275

Final goal: 200