97! And I did it again – I forgot to post yesterday, so I’ll make up for it this morning.

I’m still hovering in the 178 range – hopeful that I’ll get a glimpse of 175 by my weigh in the morning of November 1st. The lowest I’ve seen thus far is 177.3, and usually after it goes back up for a few days, the next drop can be significant. So something like 175.9 (which I’d consider a glimpse of 175) is certainly possible. But, it’s not a given.

All that said, I’m excited to be able to eat a little more normally in a few days. And when I say normally I mean more like “how normal humans eats” rather than “how I normally eat”. At this point I don’t think I have a how I normally eat. Or at least I hope I don’t, because that was a big part of this. I truly am used to eating this way, and I could keep doing it if I wanted to / had to.

So what I see changing for me in the coming weeks is that starting on Thursday, I will probably begin eating some of the fruit there at work. I am going to try to hold off on snacky junk food for now (things like potato chips, crackers, etc). I’ll also likely start eating some yogurt for breakfast to start, though I *AM* going to have bagels w/ cream cheese on Fridays… because man, do I miss those.

Dinners will probably change less drastically. I guess cheese won’t be banned anymore, so there will be that. But they’re probably going to stay pretty low carb.

Anyway, I’ve gotta leave something to talk about tonight, so I better shut up now. It may already be too late.

96! Today was the last day that I have to skip the bagel at work. Next Friday I am totally having a bagel w/ cream cheese for breakfast. 400-500 calories well worth it.

This will also be the last weekend that I’m on the diet… I have to decide what my “cheat day” will be… either saturday or sunday. I think I’m going to say 2500 calories are allowed on that day, but, I’m not required to use them all.

Anyway, I’m tired… that’s all I’ve got tonight.

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.