Restarting the diet.

So much has happened in the in the last year. I moved to Chicago. I started law school. We sold our house. Medina moved to Chicago with me. I finished my first year of law school. (In that order.)

Unfortunately, something else happened over the last year. I gained weight. To be exact, I gained back 30 of the pounds I had previously lost. I am not beating myself up over that fact, but I am unhappy about it. The good thing is that we know exactly what to do about the situation. We know how to lose weight. We did it before, with great success.

Now it is time to do it again. Medina and I are once more undertaking the difficult task of losing weight. My short term goal is to get back to my previous low by the time school starts at the end of August. I am currently at 280, and I want to be at 250 by my thirtieth birthday, on August 23.

It's such a simple formula that one wonders why we didn't just keep on losing. The answer is also simple. It is a matter of attention. In order for me to lose weight, I have to pay close attention to everything I eat. I have to write it down. And I have to plan ahead. I can't head out to school or work with no preparation for lunch, because the results are almost always bad.

So now we are paying attention, and we will lose the weight. We are a good team, and we've proven that when our minds are focused we can achieve our respective goals. Today was official weekly weigh-in number 1 of our second round of weight loss. My starting weight is 280.

Next weigh-in and progress report in one week.