My weight from 1995 to 2010
My weight having tipped 86 kg, (BMI 28) and my belly having inched past the limits of 34″ waist trousers, I have begun a diet. Again. The first couple of weeks have been fine with my weight falling by roughly 1 kilogram a week (my target is 0.1 kilograms per day).
Plotting my weight on a spreadsheet I see that this is my fourth diet in 16 years and with each diet I seem to go over the same weight range. And at the end of each diet I am eating happily, I feel much better, my BMI is back to 25, and I can’t think of any reason why that should change. But it does.
Somehow – all that weight creeps back on. Between 2006 and 2009 (≈1000 days) I put on roughly 10 kilograms – or about 10 grams per day – equivalent to an calorific imbalance of around 85 ± 15 calories per day. This is a single biscuit a day – or the difference between a slice of buttered bread or non-buttered bread.
Is this my fate? Am I condemned to an anti-Sisyphean cycle: endlessly pushing my weight down the hill only to have it roll back up? Oh! the Gods are cruel!
November 16, 2011 at 8:46 am |
I’ve only just read this. So very funny and precisely my problem also.
Ed
November 26, 2011 at 1:59 am |
Michael, you’ll have to cut back on those protons!
January 13, 2012 at 7:01 am |
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