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2017 SEP 14 -- Day 26

Woo! I did it! I achieved my first short-term goal! The scale said 399.2 lbs three 3 times in a row. I'm so excited about this. I'm under 400 lbs! It's only slightly under, and there's a good chance it will go back up a bit for a day or so, but I'm taking it. I hit the goal, and it is a confirmed 399.2 lbs! I had to step on and off the scale many times to be certain, but three times in a row is three times in a row!

Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 399.2 lbs ⇩ 
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 399 lbs

Time to make a new short-term goal. I think 10 lbs is reasonable, so I plan to try getting under 390 lbs. New goal: 389.9 lbs or under. Incidentally, 389 is what I weighed when I was a freshman in high school. How amazing is that? I'm 10 lbs away from weighing what I did about 25 years ago! I'm just glad it's not going to take another 25 years to get back down there.

My first 30 days on this SLD diet is almost up. I have achieved some great things. I thought I had started at 415 lbs. I measured initially at 404.8 lbs once I got my scale. Then I shot up to 410.6 lbs. If I do the math from when I was at 415 lbs, it's a loss of 15.8 lbs. From the 410.6 lbs mark,  I'm down 10.8 lbs. And from 404.8 lbs, I'm down 5.6 lbs.

Looking at the graph, SLD truly started for me after the Evil Pizza of Doom incident on Day 13. From Day 13 -- when I weighed 410.4 lbs -- to now -- 13 days later on Day 26 -- I dropped an astonishing 11.4 lbs. I like those numbers!

Achieved my first short-term goal graph:

I am more motivated than ever! Let's keep this going!

Met my first goal picture:


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