95! And my first blog post going to Twitter rather than Facebook. I’m kinda psyched to delve into the world of Twitter… I spent a good deal of time going through following a bunch of personalities I like. Still a lot to go I’m sure, but I have things started. I’ve already found some musicians that I like irritate the hell out of me with their political posts. Ah well.

As far as the diet goes, it’s all still good. I had a new low on the scale this morning, so, hopefully that continues tomorrow as well and this week can get back on track rather than being kind of a slowdown. Even if it just holds where it was today though, that’d be great.

A week from now, I will be having the first beer I will have drank in 101 days. That’s pretty amazing.

Anyway, I’ve pretty much abandoned the number fact thing, because most of the numbers this high it’s hard to find anything interesting. I’m not even going to try tonight. Call me lazy… 😉

94! Another day down. This time a week from now (maybe plus a few hours, I’m writing this up a bit earlier than I typically do) I will be writing one of these posts for the last time…

Good news concerning the scale, it did adjust back down, though, it’s not back to a low point yet. Maybe tomorrow. I imagine by Saturday it will be.

Also, I decided earlier today… I am going to go ahead and start my sabbatical from Facebook tonight. You won’t actually notice anything different other than a lack of me posting anything there. Facebook seems to have done away with the ability to set all your old posts to be only visible to yourself (your only options are “friends” or “public”). I’m still not going to deactivate it, at least for now, but I’ve already removed it from my phone, except for messenger, I will continue to use that.

So, shortly after this is posted I will post on FB a link to a twitter profile (I’m setting up a new one). I will continue to post blogs there. You can follow me there and converse with me there if you so desire as well. Or you can just bookmark this page, and use the wordpress comments if you want to comment.

93! Today the scale upticked a bit higher than I would have liked – I’ll just hope it’s a fluke and things return to a more appreciable level tomorrow. But, if I’m hitting another stall, that will at least make me feel better about changing things up. I kind of don’t really like the idea of changing things up when this is working pretty well – but, I also want to switch things up, ideally to something resembling more of a long term solution.

Otherwise things are pretty good – no struggles with sticking to the diet or anything like that. I’m looking forward to Thursday of next week though – somewhere between 180 and 200 of my allotted 1500 calories will be reserved for a beer that day. The first I’ll have had in over 3 months.

It’ll be tricky trying to find the right balance to continue weight loss at a steady rate I think, but, if after getting through the end of this year I find I want things to move more quickly, I can always tighten it up.

92. Alright! Another day down.

I’m glad I did this bonus round… it’s giving me some time to think through what I am going to do next. I’m leaning more toward the option of calorie counting. I discovered there’s some websites with recipes that give calorie counts per serving, and so I think that will help me, since I’m planning on doing some more cooking myself, and trying to continue to not eat out – I really think eating out so often is what has been my main problem historically.

I still haven’t started running again – I should, I don’t have a good reason not to, but… I’ve not done it.

92… The Guinness record of the longest placename, Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaurehaeaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has 92 characters.

91! Some people out there that read the first couple and then stopped are probably thinking to themselves right now… “91? I thought these annoying posts were going to stop with 90!?” – To which I say, apologies, but you’ll have to live with today plus 10 more days. Day 101 will be the last of these posts – I swear! Though I hope to continue daily blogs, they will no longer be these diet-related ones (Not to say I won’t EVER talk about a diet in my blog), nor will they be named “Day #” – And also, they very likely won’t be shared on Facebook.

I’m pretty sure that also on Day 101 I will be taking a break from the world of Facebook – But a little different than some times in the past when I have done so. This time I believe that rather than suspending the account, I am going to simply lock everything down such that only I can view it, then just not use Facebook, apart from Messenger or very specific instances (like if I have to check a group or something like that – I have a couple things like that at the moment that are kinda important).  Oh yeah, and most importantly deleting the app on my phone, as that’s the main place I use it.

Why? Eh, lots of reasons, but, I am going to immerse myself in the world of Twitter. I’ve never really “gotten” Twitter, but, I just want to see what it’s like to use that exclusively for awhile. So- if you want to continue to read my blogs – you have 2 options:

1. Just bookmark the blog page, https://darkestlight.org/b/
2. Follow me on Twitter. I don’t know if I’m going to use my current handle or make a new one yet, so if you want to go with that option I’ll have to fill you in later.

Weight upticked a bit this morning, but, that’s not really atypical – I’m quite confident it will continue to go down over the next 10 days. I am a bit scared about changing things, but, I just need to remind myself that if things start to go south, I can always get back on this diet again – if I got started on it once, I can get started on it again, even if the first week or so will  be truly awful. 😉

Anyway, this is coming in a little earlier than usual because I’m ultra tired and I *KNOW* that if I don’t do it now I’ll forget to do it later.

91… Apparently it is a solitaire game where the object is to move cards, so the top cards total 91. I’ve never heard of it before, but perhaps you should look up the rules and play.

90! It’s finally here… the final day of the 90 Day commitment.

It seemed like a long time at first, but it’s gone by pretty quickly. Enough so that adding on this extra 11 days doesn’t seem so bad.

I am trying to make a decision about what to do next… revert to the slow carb diet rules and have a cheat day once a week? Do calorie counting but have one day a week where I get some extra calories? (Say 1500/day 6 days of the week and 2500 on the cheat day?)

It will most likely be one of those things, unless I think of something else or someone suggests something to me that I think might work better. Whichever I choose will carry me through the holidays… and so I might choose the latter- as then even on a non-cheat day I could have something “junky”, I’d just have to sacrifice real food… haha. That will mostly only be impactful the week of Christmas though, when there will be lots of temptations.

Anyway, here is what you’ve been waiting for… charts!

Here is the whole 90 days. Keep in mind I didn’t start recording my weight daily (or at all) until September 4. So aside from the start weight, there were no data points until then…

Here’s the last 30 days:

I’m going to keep inputting my weight daily indefinitely… even when I am done trying to achieve weight loss… the idea being when I see it starting to trend up, I can make changes. I really do want this to stick. This is the 4th time in my life I’ve put in significant weight loss, so it’s time I learned to keep it off.

After the new year, if I haven’t yet reached 165, I might change back to this diet again until I do. I’m set on that number now, because I’m close enough to 174 that I know I will have the extra 9 pounds to lose.

Anyway, 90. Major League Baseball bases are 90 feet apart!

89! Oops – this one is coming in the morning after because I got tired a bit early and passed out without remembering to type up a post.

The good news is that I did have that downtick yesterday morning, so that’s a good thing. I did accidentally consume a swallow of a sweetened beverage yesterday – it was “sparkling water” – I didn’t think to check for sugar before buying it. In any case, it only took one swallow to figure it out, so… don’t think it will do any damage.

Ok so that’ll be it for now… tonight will come the last post of the 90 day commitment, tomorrow starts the bonus round!

89…. You know what? I literally can’t find anything interesting about this number. You’re on your own.

88! Only 2 more days (and then of course the “bonus round” will follow).

Skipped out on the run today – I think I’ll make Saturday my next run, start the mid-week runs again next week.

Not a whole lot to report on really. Weight has continued to be hovering just below 180 still. Probably will see the next dip in the next day or so.

As for 88… 88 MPH is the speed at which you must go to travel through time via a flux capacitor.

87. Just 3 more days to go and I’ll have completed my commitment!

So close to the end… it’s late, so I’m going to keep this short, but I promised my next commitment following the 90 days.

So… here it is… my next commitment is to extend this diet through the end of October. If my math is correct, I think it will take me to Day 101. I’ll keep doing these updates through that time as well.

Part of the reason is… this diet has been working really well, I’m kind of scared to change it up while I feel like I’m on a roll…

Pretty sure after that I’ll switch to the old slow carb diet.. but, I’m not sure – if I keep feeling like this diet is working to get me to where I want to be… maybe I’ll just keep going with it.

87. The number of years between the signing of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Battle of Gettysburg, immortalized in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address with the phrase “fourscore and seven years ago…”

86. That’s 4 days remaining. As good as there.

I’m loving the weather we’ve been having here lately… finally cooled off, though, of course, it kinda skipped over moderate temperatures completely. Oh well. I’ll take 50’s, it’s pretty nice.

That 5k and bike ride on sunday took a lot out of me, still feeling a bit sore – I’m gonna try to get another run in either tomorrow or Thursday. Both are looking fine in regard to weather, so, we’ll see how I’m feeling tomorrow and base it off that.

Tomorrow I’ll officially commit to what my next step post day 90 is.

Alright, so, 86. Maxwell Smart of the TV series Get Smart had been designated Agent 86.