/mike

Has it really been 17 weeks already?! Wow, this has got to be the second longest commitment I’ve made in recent memory. That statement may not be entirely true but it sure is close, the other long term commitments would involve sports and school — which shouldn’t really count because school is a completely different creature all together.

Week 17 was a little lacking on the full commitment aspect and that was partly due to various people moving and the impending move — into an actual apartment — that I’m making. I’m not using that as an excuse because it was my choice to eat out at Burger King, Johnny Rockets, the movie theatre, etc.

Basketball is getting easier over the weeks even though last week I only played once. That’s probably another reason for the less than stellar results this week. A few of us are investigating joining a gym over the winter in order to lower our BMI’s and build up some of those things the kids are calling muscles.

And now, this weeks stats:

• Weight: 172.8 lb.
• Belly inches: ??
• BMI: 24.8 kg/m²

That’s a total of 0.4 lbs. gained and 0.1 kg/m² of fat gained since my last weigh in.

Here are the grand totals for the entire diet so far:

• Total weight lost: 9.0 lb.
• Total inches lost: 2″ or more, I really need to measure this
• Total BMI drop: 2.0 kg/m²

If you want to find out more about what we’re doing — it’s not just for people losing weight, gainers are welcome too — check out the diet page. There you can also find a nice OPML file to check up on all of us dieters (you can also visit our flickr group). Also be sure to check out our sponsor, The Diet Channel.