When I started this a few months ago, I had a goal to check in weekly by blog. I was doing okay for a while, but my last blog post was almost 2 months ago when I didn't make my weigh-in! I'm putting this on my calendar - weekly blogging.
So what's been going on? I was making progress for a while, feeling good about myself, but progress was slower than necessary to make the weigh ins. I was a little bit over my Round 2 weigh in. I kept making progress in Round 3, but I couldn't catch up and right around the last week of that week when I knew I couldn't make it, I gave up. And I've been climbing back up ever since. I weighed in infrequently and tried not to look at trend.
So, what are the lessons here? I was losing weight!!! Maybe not quite as quickly as the dietbet rules required, but I was making a lot of slow, steady progress, and that's whole point. Whatever I was doing was working, and it was making me feel good. So keep doing what you know how to do. In the end, it's not about making the weigh ins on time, it's about making them at all.
Looking at this graph, looking at how much time is left in this bet and what my progress was like before my little crisis of faith, I am setting a new goal for myself. If I make it down to my Round 3 goal by the end of this, I'll consider it a win. Round 4 goal? A totally amazing accomplishment. Round 6 goal? Well, let's not even go there... I might get discouraged and bounce up again.