Weekly weigh-in: plateau? bottom? And whither this blog?

First, the numbers:

• Today's weight: 192.0 lb
• Change since last week: 0 lb
• Cumulative weight loss: 142.0 lb
• Average weekly weight change: -1.32 lb

As regular readers of this blog may have noticed, I've been plateaued at 192 pounds for about a month now. You'll also remember that I had vowed I was going to let my weight find its own natural stopping point, without doing any extraordinary alterations to my routine to force my weight lower.

So I'm wondering now: is this it? Have I reached my body's natural preferred stopping point? Not that I'd be changing my current routine one whit, any more than I planned to change it if I weren't at bottom. In fact, this may well be a moot point from a practical standpoint--I've got a healthy routine, it's working for me, so if it ain't broke don't fix it.

It does, however, make me wonder what I should do with this blog from this point forward. After all, it's no more exciting for me to keep entering essentially the same data week after week than it must be for you folks out there to read it! And the truth be known, I pretty much laid out the bulk of my philosophy about healthy weigh management--and vented the bulk of my angst about the dieting industry--in these first two years of blogging.

So I'm considering expanding the focus of this blog, from a personal weight-management journal to a more wide-ranging blog about my interests in food. This would of course still include my weigh management routine--after all, I'm not going to stop any of my disciplines just because I'm changing the blog's focus. And if something should change about my weight management routine, of course you'll hear about it here right off. And I have occasionally mentioned my other food interests here from time to time. I'd just be bringing those other interests more into the foreground.

I'm not sure exactly how and when these changes will start showing up on this blog, but watch this space, and sooner or later all will be revealed.

Comments

[Heidih]

Miz Ducky! Interesting new place to be for you. I vote for an expanded format encompassing your passion for interesting and delicious food. You opened my eyes to konnyaku and king oyster mushrooms. Those two items are now a constant in my cooking not because of the caloric value, but because they have great texture and I truly enjoy them. I know that exercise has been hard for you, but it is possible as you ratchet up the walking (given that your bod is up for it) you will see additional loss. But hey- look how far you have come! (mental click onto the old Virgina Slims ciggy commercial "You've come a long way baby")

[mizducky]

Thanks for the support, Heidi! I'm already plotting various things for this blog that might include some style/design changes as well as content chenges/expansion. It might be awhile before those changes are ready for prime-time, but watch this space and someday you might be surprised! :-)

In the meantime, as you'll see from the post I just made, I am in fact making some progress on the physical activity front--it's been so gradual that I kind of took it for granted until someone noticed, but progress is indeed being made.