Why? Because I weighed myself in the aftermath of getting roaringly sick last Friday night.
How sick? I threw up. That's a headline, because I never throw up. Hadn't done so in quite literally decades. And this was no mere spitting up thing; it was total projectile vomiting, Exorcist-style, so violent that my sides ached for days thereafter. I ate nothing the following day, then only ate a little bit in the ensuing couple of days before I weighed myself Tuesday morning, when I recorded the figures shown above.
Plus I wound up suffering some pretty severe diarrhea--some of it at the same time as the vomiting (!)--that only went away (I think) within the last 24 hours (it's Friday evening next as I type this).
So it makes sense that I was quite literally empty of stomach and probably pretty dehydrated, too, when I stepped on the scale.
Bottom line: the weight loss exhibited above is not likely to last, and probably doesn't represent a real push below 250 such as I had hoped to achieve before the end of the year. My weight may have already bounced back up (especially as I haven't exercised in a week, for obvious reasons). But I like seeing a sub-250 number on the scale so much--first time I've seen anything like 245 in at least 15 years--that I just had to post the pic. (I did see a sub-250 reading in late August, but that too was a cheat, as I stepped on the scale after I showed post-exercise, so it was all water-weight loss).
Hopefully, there will be real progress again sometime in the near future.
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