I typically gain weight during the winter, which is why I last posted to this collection 23 weeks ago. That's 5 months, which makes since.
I'm at ~220 pounds as of this morning -- and I lost weight during Dreamation, somehow. I didn't drink, which may explain it. Two ginger ales a night has a lot of calories, but nothing compared to four beers. Or six moscow mules.
Anyway. It is Feb 26. Camp Nerdly is May 18. Not quite 3 months. About 12 weeks.
So ... I'll be at 210 before then. Ten pounds, twelve weeks.
Or else, what?
I'm not sure, honestly. Typically I create an incentive mechanism such that a bad organization will get my money if I fuck up. But, the stakes have been raised in the last year and I just can't.
I am open to suggestions.
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Don't do the terrible for the world consequences thing. That's a stick. Figure out a carrot instead.
ReplyDeleteIdeas? The stick has worked really well in the past, too!
ReplyDeleteIs there some experience you would like to treat yourself to?
ReplyDelete... like going to a con filled with many of my favorite people?
ReplyDeleteThat's the problem: If I want something, and it is in the budget, I get it. If it is outside the budget, I don't get it. The stick works so well because I have to adjust my budget if I screw up. And because I am outside the decision procedure -- i give a physical check to another person.
Part of why it works is I'm so removed from the process. I can't cheat. I don't see how to do that with a carrot, but I am open to ideas!
Ok if you fail you have to get a tattoo
ReplyDeleteA crowdsourced tattoo
ReplyDeleteWhen Sean's been doing this he used much shorter term carrots. Like he gets a fancy soda if he's in his calorie budget for the day.
ReplyDeleteIf sticks work for you better than carrots, just invent yourself a stick. Or if your trouble is that you have all the carrots, self-bind a specific carrot to this goal.
ReplyDeletee.g.: Want to see Avengers: Infinity War in theaters? Gotta hit your weight goals, or else you are obliged to wait for Netflix.
Or agree to do something you don't like doing for an organization that does good. Don't like dirt? Agree to put in hours at a community garden.
ReplyDeleteMmmm moscow mules.
ReplyDeleteok, crowdsourcing William's tattoo. I'll begin:
ReplyDeletea butterfly with...
I'm thinking a skin rip coup d'oeil, with smurfs trying to escape through in a panic.
ReplyDeleteanatomically correct smurfs
ReplyDeleteNo tattoo. Problem is, if it's something I can skirm out of after the fact? Then I will.
ReplyDeleteThat is, it needs to be something where I can't cheat.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
ReplyDeleteAh, you'll cheat yourself.
ReplyDeleteOkay, how about this: Instead of punishing random strangers by contributing to terrible causes, punish your friends.
Short version: If you don't hit your weight goals, I can't go see the new Avengers until it hits Netflix.
Don't know if the release dates actually work for that, but that's the general notion.
Ooooooooh! I like this!
ReplyDeleteMaybe double the length of time if you don't make it? So drop ten pounds by nerdly or else you have to stay on the same regimen for two months past nerdly. Including while at Nerdly.
ReplyDeleteGosh, Tony Lower-Basch: would you do that?
ReplyDeleteIf you're going to feel good and jolly guilty if you make me miss the blockbuster special effects up close on the big screen? Yeah. I'm willing to put myself on the line.
ReplyDeleteJust know that it adds more time pressure to your schedule, if this is your ask: The movie comes out May 4, and I will absolutely be bugging you about where your weight is at least a week before that date. Obviously, Nerdly would be the hard date, but there would also be a soft run-up.