I quit watching my diet (on purpose) and exercise (had good intentions, but did not follow through so well) during the graduation and holiday travel and celebration. At my peak, I had gained back almost 20 of the 40 pounds I had lost. A lot of that must have been water because I am now back down to a little over a 30 pound loss of my high weight when I started this current health kick. I am now four months in and have an 11 month runway bereft of reasons to break my diet and even less bereft of excuses to not exercise. There will be a business trip or two and some celebration down in San Pedro, but those are one or two day events, not three weeks like for the holidays and graduation. I actually had moved from Level 2 obese to Level 1 obese to then barely into the merely overweight category (BMI of 29.9 for me). So, my short term goal is to get back down to that category, then aim at getting to “normal.” I am not sure I trust the BMI charts at the CDC (or just about anything else they do), because I was considered obese at 10% body fat when I was playing judo in college. That is a problem for another day, though. I will talk to my doctor about it when I see him in February. I was hoping I could be in the merely overweight category by the time I saw him, but I do not think that is going to happen now.

Month 4 WEIGHT: 204.1 lbs. BMI: 32