2021 Resolutions & Accountability

I appear to have forgotten to post last week.  I was pretty busy and extremely distracted, so that's not surprising.

Today's weigh in is 146 lbs.  

While my originally stated goal on this thread was 140 lbs., I no longer feel that this is a necessary point to reach.  I'm now at the point where I'm wearing clothes of the same size as I was wearing when I was in college, and that's good enough for me.  I'm wearing 32" waist jeans, and I'm on the third hole on my belt to keep them up.  What's more, my doctor is happy with my weight, and doesn't think I need to lose any more.  Which brings me to last week's drama...

I felt the need to go to the doctor last week.  There is a lump in the center of my chest that I began to notice more than a month ago, and was trying to ignore rather than face the reality that it might be something very, very bad.  When I finally couldn't take it anymore, I gave it a serious inspection, and decided that ignoring it was an incredibly stupid thing to do.  It's not at all obvious.  There's no discoloration, no pain.  It's only visible when I lean back or breathe deeply.  

The good news is that it's nothing I need to worry about.  It's just the bottom edge of my sternum.  Being fat for a decade was putting constant pressure on the base of my sternum, and the result was to push it out a bit.  I wasn't able to notice this being the case because all the fat was in the way.  Once I lost the weight, it became noticeable.  I'm just going to have to learn to live with it.  

My adjusted target is simply to stay beneath 150 lbs.  I am not changing anything regarding my eating and exercise routines.  If that means that I continue to lose weight, so be it.  If that means that, as I suspect, I've reached the limits of where that will take me, so be it.  I've been having people tell me for the past two months that I've gone too far with this as it is.  I think they're wrong, as I know myself better than they.  I look great, and I feel great.   

As for my plans to buy an Indy jacket at 140 lbs., I'm just going to incorporate that into my plans regarding continuing to stay on this path.  I'll put in my order towards the end of Summer, I suspect.