Day 90: 276 lbs

Today is a milestone: 90 days since the start of my diet, three idealized months. In that time I've lost 39 pounds, or an average of three pounds per week. Of course, during October I basically lost no weight at all, and during September and November I lost weight quite a bit faster.

I lost a pound yesterday, and stuck to my Diet Commandments with 1,415 calories consumed and 85 remaining for the day. I had to guess at the calorie content of the soup we had for dinner, since the package had no nutritional information (it was a boutique brand)--it is amazing how helpful those nutrition labels are.

And today is perhaps the biggest diet challenge ever: Thanksgiving, that great American pig-out. I have to do it twice, once with my relatives and once with my wife's relatives. My strategy is to not eat anything except the Thanksgiving dinner itself, and try to stick to the 1,500 calorie quota.

We'll see how it goes.