Day 83: 278 lbs

I lost four pounds yesterday, and followed all my Diet Commandments religiously (no pun intended). I ended the day having consumed 1,499 calories, keeping under my budget of 1,500.

I'm glad I broke through 280, since I was starting to get worried that my weight might be plateauing again (as it did in October). Short plateaus of a few days are normal and expected, but this one was starting to get beyond normal and expected.

It has now been two weeks since I wrote down my Diet Commandments, and I've lost 15 pounds since then, about a pound a day on average. Some of that was water, but this is finally real again. Since I began my diet waaaay back in August, I've lost 37 pounds in 82 days, or just under a half-pound every day. It hasn't come evenly, though. In the first month, I lost 2/3 pound daily, then nothing at all for a month, and now I'm back on the losing train again.

So the lesson is to stick to the basics.