Weight has been a dominant fact of my life for as long as I can remember. I first began tracking my weight around 1990 but lost the earliest data. This graph uses logs I entered in a spreadsheet for about 20 years and then, after a gap of not keeping track, picks up again with data from Apple Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chart is interactive.<\/strong> Hover over a point\u2014or tap it on a touch device\u2014to see the date, weight, and any note associated with it. You can zoom and pan through the timeline, use the slider at the bottom to focus on a particular period, or use the 1y, 5y, 10y, and All buttons to change the view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The graph contains a lot of my life. There are diets in there, bike commutes, periods when I walked everywhere, stressful stretches, successes that lasted months or years, and many occasions when I lost a substantial amount of weight only to gain it back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the notes are full of hope and determination, but many are riddled with defeat and despair. There is much self-loathing. Sometimes it became too much and I didn’t want to step on the scale for a long time, and so there are gaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today I stepped on the scale and it read 299.0 pounds<\/strong>. That is a number I thought I would never see again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Weight has been a dominant fact of my life for as long as I can remember. I first began tracking my weight around 1990 but lost the earliest data. This graph uses logs I entered in a spreadsheet for about 20 years and then, after a gap of not keeping track, picks up again with … Continue reading “Weight”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,1687],"tags":[109,62],"class_list":["post-3942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-explanation","category-health","tag-diet","tag-weight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t