Progress
Here’s a little graph of my weight over the last few weeks, from the MyFitnessPal iPad app.
According to this I am on a trajectory to lose about 625 grams per week (roughly 1.4 pounds). Within 2 weeks I should no longer be technically obese! And if I stick with it I should reach my target weight of 82 kg in a mere… 26 WEEKS! Oh great, just six more months of being pissed off and hungry all the time.
I say 82 kg because my ideal weight range according to standard BMI calculations is 62 – 82 kgs. Which to be honest seems a bit ridiculous, and I know BMI is overly simplistic, but I may as well pick a target. It’s about what I weighed 6 years ago (shortly after being deathly ill, funnily enough).
That’s really good progress Mark. Embrace that starving feeling!
Deathly ill? I thought I had something similar sounding this year – I think it was due to b-vitamin complex overdose, the daily dosage was 3500% and no warnings were included. I took them as I found some positive effects initially, like better concentration/focus during the day and more energy (not the sugar kind of energy which doesn’t help in focusing). I kinda still need those but I’m finding that some of the substance in those vitamin seems to be bad for my eyes. I guess the best thing is to just have out door activities for a hour each day before doing intense coding stuff but that sucks in the weather here (-10 – 10 C and raining a lot).
Anyway my question was – did you stop developing JujuEdit due to the illness? I noticed JujuEdit Copyright has 2006 as date.
Jujuedit development stalled mostly because it already fulfilled my needs, and I was using it less as more of my work involved high level code and projects in complex IDEs. It’s been ages since I needed to scan massive log files or hack large binaries.
Also about 4 years ago I pretty much ditched Windows as my primary platform and went to Mac, so started using other people’s editors (eg TextWrangler) and decided it wasn’t worth bothering to port Jujuedit.
OH and to getting thin: The most critical thing from what I have heard is being very selective in what you eat. Some foods “keep you full” longer and thus feel need to eat less often. Also best to eat two such meals a day and avoid snacks. I forget the exact foods but I think the best diet was based on mediterranean food while avoiding gluten (that’s going to be challenging but it’s worth trying, the shops here have improved their gluten free selection enough that I can still eat pasta and bread – for pizza I’d have to make them from scratch still).