My weight loss has been going pretty good. Slow by most people's standards, just an avergage of 1 pound per week, but it is the plan I want.

Now I'm 180 and the next pound loss will take me to 179.

There is a big difference for me between being 180 something versus 170 something. I think I remember being a kid and asking my dad who had a fat gut how much he weighed, and he said 180 something. Then years later I asked my fatter brother what he weighed and he said 180 something. When I eventually reached 180 on my way up the scale, I knew I had joined them. And it was not the company I wanted to join in terms of weight. They probably weighed more, I'm sure they were over 200. But that 180 was what they were clinging to as their low weight. To me, that is a high weight.

I probably passed 180 on the way up about 10 years ago. Now I hope to pass it for good on the way down.

I don't know if I will do it this weekend when I check my weight, but if not then it will be the next weekend.

It will mean a lot to me.