#27. get weight down to 170 & maintain for month

I've cheated a bit with this one. I originally started my list back in the summer of 2007, and that was one of my goals. By the end of fall 2007 I'd done it. From late October until the end of the year I was within 1% of 170.

I remember when I started losing weight. It was late January 2007; I was probably 225-230. The change was involuntary on my part, but I wanted to keep with the team attitude, so I went with it. And I stuck with it, even when I didn't have to. In conjunction with my necessarily moving around more often, I started losing weight. Steadily and not too much at a time. I feel better now that I generally eat fresh and higher quality food. Fortunately, we can afford to eat this way these days, too.

Since the holidays I've started some new bad habits and I've put a bit back on (I'm probably still within 2-3%), but that's another story. I know that there is a school of thought that will say that it's impossible for me to stay away from 225-230 over the long haul and I'm not too worried about it. As long as I still get to eat higher quality food and feel better for it, then that's ok.

So I ate better, and had to move around more often and I lost weight. On the short term.

First!

I could do profound explanations for items found on this list, and why I'm doing something like this at all, but that's not the point of this project and blog.

In fact, the counterintuitive truth is that the point of this project is to stop myself from being so inward looking, at least in the ways I've been doing so up until now.

And as it says up top, my timing is coincidentally tidy, since my time will be up on my 31st birthday. To think that that's only 1001 days away should be, in and of itself, enough motivation to start thinking differently and shifting my focus elsewhere.

From here on out, posts will be made upon completion of items.

And so it begins: there are 101 posts left on this blog.