Here I am, on week 13!

Pounds lost: 28.5

Percent to super goal: 22.6

In light of recent events, I am even more motivated to do this damn thing.

This week was hard. Really hard. I didn’t have any progress at all in the first half of the week, and it wasn’t until midweek that I saw any movement, which I promise was NOT because I spent early Friday morning vomiting. Not on purpose. Read this if you’re worried.

ANYWAYS. This week I’m showing off my progress meter!

Remember when you were a kid and they would do those temperature gauge thingies where you would fill in the gauge as you met your bake sale or walkathon or fund raiser goals or whatever?

Well, I don’t know about you, but I worked my little kid-sized butt off to see that meter creep upwards. So I made one for tracking to my super goal!

Thus far I’ve avoided saying outright what my starting weight was or what my super goal is, because, well, it’s embarrassing. But I have this screenprint from my iPad, and I honestly can’t be bothered right now to go figure out how to smudge out the details, so…I’ll just put it out there.

It’s not like you couldn’t have calculated my super goal from the pounds lost and percentages I have been posting anyway, and since you’re all smart people, you could have made a fairly accurate guess at my starting weight.

So. The goal spoken is the goal achieved, right? Yeah, we’ll go with that.

Be kind. I’m a fragile little flower.

So I used this app called GoodNotes on my iPad, which, incidentally, I love. It lets you take notes and do colors, straight lines, shapes, paste in pictures, all sorts of stuff.

My overall goal is to lose 126 pounds by June 2020. There. I said it.

I know it sounds aggressive, and you may be worried that it’s unrealistic or unhealthy, but I checked with my doctor (showed her this even!) and given my height and stuff, the most I could weigh and still be considered having a healthy BMI is 134 lbs. So 126 lbs is healthy for me. But I will tell you, I think the last time I weighed 126 lbs was like…middle school or something. Maybe. So it will be a long road, but it’s something I’m completely committed to.

So using my starting weight and starting day of 4/28/19, I set interim goals as little milestones along the way (up the left hand side) of how many pounds lost (based on my starting weight) and by when for each goal, so I’d still feel like I was making progress.

My first one was to lose 18 lbs by June 15, which I met (early!) and my next one is 36 lbs by 8/15. So it works out to like 18 lbs every 2 months, or a little over 2 lbs a week. I’m on track for my 8/15 goal but it’s going to be close!

As I make a few pounds worth of progress, I do another line and color it in, and I’ve added a couple progress photos along the way to keep me motivated. I’m thinking of finding a picture of a 126-lb-body to paste my face on so I can visually see what I might look like at my goal weight, but that might be taking it a tad too far.

What I really like about this is that I can visually see my progress, and that by setting up the interim goals, I have short term milestones that are reachable, time-based, and really satisfying when I reach them. I don’t know if it matters how I track the interim goals, as much as it matters I have a long term super goal with little mileposts on the way that I can meet one at a time that will, eventually, get me where I need to be.

Yeah, I’m a nerd. But I refuse to believe you’re surprised by that.