A Weighty Matter

Background

I've mentioned before I keep decent records. I've got tape images (now on CD) from the 1980s, the archive of our PCs from early 2000s, and my crowning achievement is a spreadsheet from hell that logs my exercise going back to 2004 and my weight going every year back to 1997 (with sporadic entries even before that). There are gaps in every year, but there's enough data to have show clear trends.

(There is also enough data to give Google Docs nervous breakdown if I reload it fresh from a local copy; ~14 cells on 365 rows per year for 22+ years is not trivial, even with many of the cells blank.)

Today

Having slowly lost weight over the 15 years since my peak weight and having lost approximately a half pound every week this year to date, I am now at my lowest weight since before 1997 (30+ years) by a comfortable margin. I'm still close to 40 pounds over the line between obese and merely overweight, but progress has been made.

I really need to work not so much on my weight, but on my conditioning, but that's the topic for a different day.