Day 148: down 20.2 lbs.

Day 147: down 20 lbs.

Day 146: down 21.4 lbs.

Back on the wagon

No, not me -- SD Blogger is back on SLD.

Welcome, Woman's World readers

More readers are finding their way here recently, and I'm told that it's probably because of the cover story on the Shangri-la Diet in Woman's World.

You won't find all that much about Shangri-la lately, as I eventually ran out of things to say. You will find more in the archives, which you'll find near the bottom of the right-hand column. If you want the whole story, start with the May archive, and read each monthly archive page from the bottom up.

Day 145: down 20 lbs.

Day 144: down 22.4 lbs.

Day 143: down 20.2 lbs.

Day 142: down 19.2 lbs.

My 15-mile road race went reasonably well yesterday, although I went out too fast for the first 10 miles. I paid for it in the last five.

Day 141: down 19.8 lbs.

Day 140: down 18.8 lbs.

I've now been off of Shangri-la for 70 days, after having been on it for 70 days. I lost 13.8 lbs. in those first 70 days, and 5 lbs. since then. The last 10 days or so have seen just about the worst results yet, with my weight up 3 lbs.

My seven-day moving average, which I put more stock in than the daily numbers, bottomed out last Saturday at 1.6 lbs. below what it is now.

My eating habits have been pretty terrible lately. Too many trips to the vending machine. I need to get back in the habit of bringing healthy snacks to work.

With all of the road races I've run lately, I've also skipped more days of running than I would like. I have a 15-mile race on Saturday (which will be my longest run ever), then not another race for over a month, so I hope to get back on my daily running routine.

tags: Shangri-la Diet

Day 139: down 18.4 lbs.

Where have all the bloggers gone?

I list a number of Shangri-la Diet blogs in my "links" section in the sidebar, and I've flagged a few as defunct or moribund. Virtually all of them are moribund. Where'd everybody go?

OK, Rod went to Scotland.

But where is everybody else? There was never really a blog-storm of SLD activity, but what little there was has virtually dried up. Here's a chart from Technorati (a web site that tracks blogs) showing the number of daily posts tagged with "Shangri-la diet." (By the way, if anybody can tell me what's wrong with the "Blog this chart!" code generated by Technorati to show this stuff, I'd be grateful. I had to do it the hard way.)



Back in May and June there was hardly a day without something posted somewhere, and often several a day. Now there's one or two a week.

Did everybody just give up and go to the Seth Roberts forums? Back in May, Dr. Roberts published some charts on the growth of the forums. I wonder what those numbers look like now. I wonder how the book is selling.


tags: Shangri-la Diet

Day 138: down 19.2 lbs.

Day 137: down 20.2 lbs.

Day 136: down 19.8 lbs.

Day 135: down 19.6 lbs.

Day 134: down 21.4 lbs.

Day 133: down 20.2 lbs.

Day 132: down 21 lbs.

Day 131: down 21.6 lbs.

Day 130: down 21.8 lbs.

Day 129: down 21.6 lbs

I ran a half marathon yesterday. It went pretty well. It's only the second one I've run. I weigh about 10 lbs. less than I did three years ago when I ran my first, and I ran about 9 or 10 minutes faster this time. Last time my training was geared more towards the half marathon distance, with more long training runs. This year, I'm running mainly to lose weight, with shorter but more frequent runs.

Day 127: down 20.6 lbs.

Day 126: down 19.6 lbs.

Day 125: down 18.8 lbs.

Day 124: down 20 lbs.

Day 123: down 21.4 lbs.

Missed yesterday's weigh-in. My family and I were out of town. I ran a 10K road race yesterday. My right hamstring was bothering me a little, so I didn't push it. I still ran about a minute faster than I have before. It's a lot easier to run at 177 lbs. than it is at 188 or 199.

tags: weight loss, running

Day 121 - down 21 lbs.

Day 120: down 21.4 lbs.

Day 119: down 20.8 lbs.

Well, that was a wild swing: up 2.6 lbs. one day; down 2.8 the next. Because of swings like that, I keep track of my seven-day moving average weight, and I've considered just reporting that number instead. Here's the chart; click it for an enlarged view. The moving average is just a little bogus right now, since it includes part of a six-day stretch where I didn't weigh in. I just used a straight-line interpolation for the missing days.

tags: weight loss