Today’s weight was 181 pounds! Yes, this means I met my goal of 182 pounds which I set back on October 30. This whole effort resulted from Brip Blap’s Public Declaration post in which he challenges people to publicly set a goal and then try to meet it. I have to say that posting about the weight every week was one of the better motivators I had for this project and resulted in losing the weight in only nine weeks which is much less than the four to six months I was expecting.
Well now that I’ve gotten down to 181, my next two goals are:
- Keep the weight off. If nothing else by the end of the year I don’t want to be heavier than 181 pounds.
- Get down to 175 pounds. I know from my college days that my perfect weight was around 165 pounds but I don’t think that’s a realistic weight to shoot for since it would be too hard to maintain. Wish me luck!
Some interesting reads from this week:
This post from My Dollar Plan blew my mind – it’s about a person who has 181 financial accounts which includes 89 credit cards. Another interesting statistic that she wrote about is that the credit limit on all the cards is just over a million dollars.
Fecundity wrote a humorous list of things to do, and not to do in the presence of a pregnant woman.
Check out the second edition of the Carnival of Financial Goals hosted by BeingFrugal.net. I was an editor’s choice for my post on Shooting Down Goals.
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Congrats! You are making great progress with your weight.
Congratulations on reaching your weight loss goal!
Weigh to go!
(sorry)
Thanks everyone.
WDAMMG – that’s bad!! (but funny).
Mike
Congrats! And to do it faster than planned, great job. Thanks for the mention…. glad it blew your mind – I like to live a little crazy:)
I suppose the losing weight thing is the one time I can say, “the less of you the better.”
Good luck on your journey.
Incidentally, the lady with the 181 accounts is out having a duel with another lady who insists that credit cards should have been banned by the UN (or along those lines).
You can check them out at :
http://www.debtfree-revolution.com/2008/01/04/ways-credit-card-companies-separate-you-from-your-money/
Hey Mike, good job on meeting your weight goal. You have inspired me to start jogging again with my yellow lab.
…MG
MDP – your blog is a very interesting read!
FatherSez – thanks for the link.
MG – one of the reasons I was surprised to lose the weight in the time I did was because I haven’t really been exercising that much. It was pretty much 100% diet.
Mike
Excellent job, Mike – that’s tremendous, and you deserve all the congratulations on reaching your goal! That’s a nice way to start the new year!
Thanks BB – you were a part of it by inspiring me to go public with the goal.
Mike
Congrats on the weight loss! Good luck with reaching 175!
Thanks SD!
Mike