One of my favorite comic strips is Pearls Before Swine, and the comic from September 30th, 2011, sums up why I would never be able to write a book about weight loss:
If you had read my blog post entitled The Geek's Guide to Weight Loss, you would have noticed that all I did to lose 50 pounds in six months was to eat less calories each day than my body uses on a daily basis. In the following six months, I’ve kept off the weight by making sure that I eat only as many calories as my body actually needs.
As a year-end recap, here’s my average weight month-by-month for 2011:
| Month | Average |
| January | 203 |
| February | 190 |
| March | 178 |
| April | 171 |
| May | 166 |
| June | 164 |
| July | 160 |
| August | 160 |
| September | 159 |
| October | 159 |
| November | 160 |
| December | 161 |
My day-to-day chart for the entire year looks like the following:
I had a spike of a pound or two at Christmas – nobody’s perfect. 