The Speculist: It's a New Phil, Week 49

The Big Seven-Oh

Down two pounds this week to 226 for a total weight loss of 71 pounds!!! A new high. A new low. Call it what you will. It has taken me about three and a half months to go from 60 pounds lost to 70 pounds. It took a little less than two and a half months to get from 50 pounds to 60. And it took just a litte over two months to get from 40 pounds to 50.

So my overall weight loss rate has slowed to a pound and a half per week, and that includes all the rapid weight loss I had at the beginning. As the chart below shows (click on it for an expanded version) if I can stick with my current rate of weight loss of 1.5 pounds per week, I will reach my initial target of 207 pounds (90 pounds lost) at week 60, 11 weeks from now.

Since that means losing 20 pounds faster than I've lost any of the last few sets of 10, I think it's safe to assume that my overall rate of loss will continue to slow. If it drops to 1.25 pounds per week, I'll reach the 90 pound mark in about May of 07. That sounds like a long time from now, but it doesn't bother me a bit when I consider how far I've come.

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