The progress on excercising 45 minutes per day isn't so good, but then I didn't expect it to be.

I still haven't bought a bathroom scale yet. I found a $200+ model that will do what I want (I *think*) but the technical docs aren't available online. Some freight scales appear to have RS-232 outputs, but the manufacturers want to sell you some 'doze-based software to work with them, which makes me wonder if they're not going to have obfuscated output. *sigh*

The 1,600 - 1,800 calorie per day diet is going better than I'd thought it would. The last time I tried to do this, I was far more miserable than I am now. Now I'm only mostly miserable.

I've decided to let myself go a little bit on weekends. Not much, mind you. I'm gonna let weekends slip up to, like, 2,000 - 2,200 calories if I so choose. A little reward isn't bad, I don't think. I won't stuff myself, though.

Now, I gotta buy a new scale. I'd love something with an RS-232 out so that I can hook up a data logging PC and simply weigh myself whenever I want and have the data automatically logged. I could chart my weight with MRTG... heh heh. Everything that I'm finding, though, is multiple hundreds of dollars. That's a little silly for me to try and justify.

I was very pleased w/ the food, so much so that I actually spoke to Steph about it before she asked me. I think that surprised her a little bit, but I'm not known to speak up about something like that unless it's really good. I live a life of little enthusiasm, if only because I worry that if I'm too enthusiastic all the time it won't be exciting when I find something to be enthusiastic about.

I wish we'd gone earlier, 'cuz now that Steph and I are both dieting, we're not going to get to eat like this very often.