230 this morning so hopefully moving back down again. I'm sure this will happen over and over throughout my journey and I know that weighing myself every day isn't a good idea - I should probably pick one day a week and weigh myself only that day in the morning - but it's too tempting to see how I'm doing every day. The gains are frustrating and the losses are exhilerating. As long as it doesn't drive me too crazy - I'm going to keep weighing myself every day. The Super Bowl just ended - Go Saints - and I flipped over to reruns of the Biggest Loser and just caught a visit by some of the members to a chef who was instructing them on the calorie content of restaurant meals - some of them as much as 3,000 calories. More than twice what my ball park number is. I haven't done a lot with calories - I've been on diets so much that I have a pretty good idea of the numbers but maybe that's the new direction I need to take. Somewhere  on one of my bookshelves I have a book devoted to calorie counts for a variety of foods. It might be interesting to keep track this week and find out just how many I'm consuming. Because I'm only working off about 300 at the gym. And I think I remember that it takes a deficit of a lot - like 3500 calories to lose a pound? I'll have to look up the specifics on that. Ok - just took a quick peek and it says that most adults use 2160 calories per day or 90 calories per hour. That's just for breathing and heart beating etc. So if you eat less than 2160 calories per day and spend some in exercise that is when weight loss happens.  So my goal this week starting tomorrow will be to list my calories here - both eaten and exercised away -  and do some quick math from that 2160 number and see what my deficit is. I'll also look up how many calories lost it takes to lose a pound and will post that as well. This is great - it gives me a bit of a new direction to go in which is so important to me so that I don't get bored - because for me getting bored means getting myself in trouble with food.
Went to the gym today - a little weird because there was only one other person there - I think most people were on their way to Super Bowl parties.  Felt good to be walking it off instead of stuffing it in. Hopefully this week I will see the end - the final end - of that pesky number three.