A New Multi-Year Low and a Zigzag Double Whoosh

For a few months now I've mostly been cycling above my existing multi-year low, rather annoying to say the least. Finally, two weekends ago I finally broke through with a 3-lb loss, to set a new low, just to "gain it all back" last week. And then a new a renewed whoosh that had me down another net 3-lb. loss. I haven't seen that happen since my 2003-2004 initial low-carb diet. So now I'm slightly above the BMI max for my height used by individual health insurance plans. Ir's also the top of a 50-lb. range or so I cycled between as a young to early middle age adult. So it's been a longstanding objective to get to that range. I don't know if the current whoosh has legs or whether it'll be another 1 or 2 week bounce back from here.

Where I had gone over that specified range was when I accepted my "job offer extortion" from California, a big mistake. I had been happily commuting from Chicago on weekends for over 3 months when my client boss told me either I accept his job offer or I don't come back Monday as I was getting to head back to SFO. I've always hated California, bur I hated being unemployed more, and I wasn't in the market. God knows how long it would have taken for me to find a new job. It turned out my fitness club at the time (Bally's) didn't have a location near San Jose, I was working 70-hour weeks as a perm employee, and I probably stress-ate my way to record weight; I still remember the utter shock when I randomly weighed myself and found myself at 300 lbs. So most of the last 20 years I've been fighting to get back to my original range.

The next objective? The low of my 2003-2004 diet was just before going to my folk's golden anniversary, about 15 pounds more. The weight plateaued and the diet was monotonous. It's not like I went nuts on carbs, but relaxing the diet led to stealth weight gain.

I decided to return to Nutrisystem for a while. I was shocked when I discovered the default option included frozen foods; I have problem getting my apartment managers to replace a broken refrigerator. I think Nutrisystem had been floating the idea of frozen food around the time I had left. Anyway I called and got my order switched to a more economical shelf-stable "core" system. One of the reasons I decided to go back was given my refrigerator issues I had basically gone to shelf-stable already.