Daily Maintenance Weigh In - Saturday, January 18, 2014

181.6, same as yesterday.  Which is good! I was expecting a rebound after a full pound drop the day before.

Officially entering 3 weeks of "extreme" travel... Not sure how often I'll be posting for a while, but I'll be reading...

Off to India tonight for a very short trip, back on Friday - so 48 hours flying for four days in the office, but important days.  Then I come home for 36 hours and leave for Vegas for a 6 day convention that will be 20 hours a day of work... in years past this would have meant a minimum 5 pound weight gain from entertaining customers with food (we kick off the event every year with a "thank you" dinner for customers - last year we had 110 people attend...)  Then I go straight from Vegas to Palm Springs for a week of cycling culminating in The 100 mile Tour de Palm Springs on Saturday Feb 8.

Should be interesting!

To say I have an understanding wife is an understatement - our 10 year anniversary is Tuesday... while I'm in India.  We decided to defer our celebration of it until April when we'll be using all my frequent flyer miles earned on this trip to go to Paris...

Have a great Saturday!

Tom

Tom, your "work" routine resembles my "travel dreams that never will be".  What fun to hear of them.  Enjoy.  Amazing the different and varied lives we all live in this community of ours.

147.2  Seems like there is a lot of day today fluctuation - but when I step back and look at the graph on a weekly basis- or even a monthly basis, it all evens out.  Perhaps I should be looking at the forest instead of the individual daily trees.  Have a wonderful weekend, folks.  Bonnie

I think the forest is a wiser choice than the trees!!!  Easy said than done! 

Yup.  We need to be honest about fluctuations vs trends, I suppose.

There are parts I really enjoy and parts I don't, but overall, I find travel to be the most mind-expanding experience available.  Meeting new people in different parts of the world is just fascinating...

Bonnie, I'm glad you mentioned the forest vs the trees.  I think I need to step back and do the same analysis.  Maintenance is still so new and daunting -- witness my recent permission to myself to eat stupidly.  

Maintenance is kicking my mental butt!  In WL Mode, I spent nearly two years in a (slow) but steady downward trend- no ups, few levels- always a downward trend.  In a strangely parallel way, food was the same- very consistent- no surprises one way or the other- content or quantity.  Now---seems like Chaos- and I look at every fluctuation (up, especially) as a daily failure. I keep a chart (have for a year) and I want the chart to look like this------------------- what it looks like is more like this^V^V^^^^...VVVV^^^^^>>>>.  Why does that jack with my mind?  If I step back, it's still a straight line.  Just goes to show how much of this journey is the mental-emotional thing.  I'm 59 years old, and still trying to grow up (sigh).

Oh, you too, huh?  :)

The best news of all is that you are weighing and logging and owning.  When we stop doing that, we're in trouble.  It's scary.

We just don't want to gain as a trend, as in the dreaded REgain.  I think normal people have these fluctuations and don't think too much of them.  As for us, after hyperfocusing on WL for so long, maintenance is a combination of getting used to being "normal" in size and appearance and then wanting to stay that way.  We have to learn how/what/when to eat all over again after ingraining our  WL hows/whats/whens for that extended period of time.  Are triggers still triggers?  How much do we need to increase our calories, and how much of that is content vs quantity?  My scale says I gained two pounds overnight, but did I really gain two pounds overnight?  Stuff like that.

I have a feeling that the passage of time will help us to gain confidence and to not freak out so much over the fluctuations as long as we are good little maintainers and don't go swinging too far afield.  I flirted with that dark side recently, and now I'm having to pull myself back.  People like Frisco and Elina and Kairk have been so helpful with that. 

142.8#. I'm on way down with cleaner eating.  Imagine that!!!  Massage today. Sushi with friends for dinner. Nothing as exciting as Tom's adventures:). Enjoy your travels!!!

Enjoy the weekend.

Tom, are you able to include exercise in your day when you travel like that?  If so, awesome.  The jet lag alone must be daunting, much less the schedule.

165.4   Successfully avoided the carbs yesterday with a fair amount of self-talk.  Going for two in a row.  :)