Weight chart, end of October 2017

I started my diet change on Jan 10, which was Day 10 of 2017. Oct 31 is day 304 of 2017, which makes the total days on the new diet 294.

Over the course of 294 days, I lost 50.4 pounds. (Jan 10 = 207.4; Oct 31 = 157.0)

That comes to an average of 0.17 pounds per day, or 1.19 pounds per week (0.17 * 7).

That is a good, slow, sustainable rate of loss. It's slow enough that my metabolism was able to adapt and not go into "starvation mode" and slow enough that my skin was mostly able to retract along with my weight loss -- "mostly" because I am almost 50 years old, so some loss of skin elasticity is normal at my age.

According to this height/weight chart over at Medical News Today (which does not account for age or sex), the "Normal" weight for someone my height (5' 9") should be 128 - 162 lbs. I am near the upper end of that range, which is good.

BTW, the chart gives the range for "Overweight" at 169-196, "Obese" at 203-263, and "Extreme Obesity" at 270-365. (I don't know how they'd categorize someone who falls between 162-169, etc.) So according to this chart, I wasn't merely "overweight" back in January, I was "obese".

I suspect my body will find its equilibrium soon and stop losing weight. Of course, I have no idea what that weight will actually be, but I will keep monitoring it.