is that I get hungry! Still, according to the scale, I weighed only 207.5 pounds this morning, that is a new low since I have been weighing myself. Even though I do not really trust the scale at all for absolute weight, it should still be fairly accurate for relative weight. That is, it told me that I weighted 220 something when I started weighing myself, so I should be able to reliably state that I now weigh 13 pounds less than I started out (well, more than 13 pounds, I started weighing myself significantly after I started losing weight), even though I do not reliably know what my weight is now.
Thirteen pounds might not sound like much, and in a very real sense it is not much, but it has come without exercising. That is very important when you consider how much I dislike exercising.
I wonder how far down I will drop. I am not starving myself, I am simply trying to do reasonable portion control for my normal eating, while allowing myself not to worry about food volume when Lauren and I go out. I could do better if I tried to portion control then as well, but the basic idea here is to reduce the amount of will power necessary. It is much easier to resist buying food than it is to resist eating it once purchased.