Weight: 329.5 (still. Sigh.)

Even though my weight stayed the same, I don't feel badly about yesterday. My total calories yesterday was 2010, which is well under the approximately 3300 which is needed to sustain my body mass. How'd I get that? Well, I've been told that, in general, the number of calories needed to maintain your body weight is your current weight multiplied by ten. I'm sure that varies by the amount of excerise you get on a daily basis, but even if I need less than 3300 calories a day to maintain my weight, I'm pretty sure that I can lose weight on 2000 calories.

Another I've noticed in my previous attempts at losing weight is that some days you're going to stay the same or even perhaps rise in weight a bit, even when your general trend is that you are losing weight.

I think it's important to weigh yourself daily. I know it certainly is for me. When I'm not weighing myself each day, I tend to eat more than I should. I know that the "experts" used to say not to weigh yourself every day simply because the seeming lack of progress or minor deviations up can discourage you. More recently I've read the opposite, that you should weigh yourself every day.

I don't think there are any real experts in losing weight. Different things work for different people, and the motivations that work for each person are so different that I doubt if the same thing works for any two people. For me, my long term motivations I've talked about. My short term motivations are the drops in weight I see in the morning on my scale. I think of it in terms of a computer game, like World of Warcraft, a game I played regularly for a couple of years. What kept me going in that game was gaining levels. As you begin, it's easy to gain levels, as you progress, it gets harder. Each time I pass another ten pound mark, that's another level for me, with each pound being kindof a mini-level -- and getting below that 300 pound mark is a big deal, much bigger than a normal ten pound mark.

Maybe tomorrow I can say I'm definately past that 330 mark.