Wednesday, July 1, 2020

Operation ÖSTERREICH: Nunc Coepi

Weekly Wednesday Weigh-in
Last weigh-in: 350.4* lbs. (Wednesday, 10 June 2020)
This weigh-in: 365.0 lbs.
Difference: +14.6 lbs.

I rue the quarantine gluttony, but not as much as I rue the post-quarantine pity party. What's done is done, what's past is past. My goal is to loss one hundred pounds (100 lbs.) by this time next year, the Weekly Wednesday Weigh-in nearest to 1 July 2021, should the world perdure. That's not a moonshot, but an entirely manageable average of a modest two pounds/week; I've done that before & I can do that on a sustained basis.


*I do not trust that number, for two reasons: One, only one week later, the scale was bouncing around all over the place; so, this number might have been the first sign of the digital scale malfunctioning. Two, it seems highly suspect to me, based on the fit of my clothes, that I gained ten pounds (10 lbs.) in the nine weeks preceding 10 June & then fifteen pounds (15 lbs.) in the three weeks preceding 1 July. I'll belief a twenty-five-pound weight gain (25 lbs.) in the twelve weeks taken altogether, but the distribution seems off to me. Why do I have more confidence in my new mechanical scale than in the old digital scale? I enjoy the benefits of technology—I'm a lifelong fan of Star Trek & have maintained this blog, a digital undertaking, for eighteen years—but at heart your humble narrator is an analog boy. Plus, the mechanical scale has a zeroing-out feature, which helps to inspire confidence. For the purposes of ÖSTERREICH, accuracy (recording my actual weight) is less important than precision (repeatability of results).

Bonus! Lied von ÖSTERREICH
Bill Conti, "Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky)" from Rocky: Original Motion Picture Score—30th Anniversary Edition (Mike Papa Wimp)

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