✅ Morning Weigh-In + Record (Weight Journey / Identity Momentum) : (Starting weight is 361.9 lbs. – today’s weight of 312.5 lbs. = 49.4 lbs. total weight loss, and this includes 28.1 lbs. since the introduction of the AI Diet!)
Today felt like a turning point. I stepped on the scale this morning and saw 312.5 lbs. staring back at me — 22.2 pounds up from my August 9th low of 290.3. That number could have crushed me, but instead it woke me up. I realized that while I was away in Victoria, the sugar and fat had crept in and left me feeling heavier, foggier, more worn out than I’ve felt in years. No matter how much coffee I drank, I couldn’t seem to wake up.
But today was different. Today, I came back. I filled my big glass cannister with lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, and Himalayan salt (see photo to the right). That ritual — watching the water line go down — feels like watching my old self dissolve away.
I started the day with egg whites and nutritional yeast, which turned out to be surprisingly delicious. Later, I air-fried some potatoes and set them over a bed of lettuce and tomatoes. To top it off, I pulled out a little glass spray bottle I’d bought a while back and mixed up mustard, hot sauce, and almond milk. It became a simple, clean salad dressing that felt like a clever hack — light flavor, no guilt, and 100% in rhythm with the AI Diet.
And then, at 5:45 PST this evening, my Victoria Coffee Shops longform video went live. Tomorrow, a short version of it will drop too. It couldn’t have been more fitting: a reflection on drifting from rhythm and then returning. To release it on the very day I came back to my diet and rituals feels like more than coincidence — it feels like alignment.
Most of the day I stayed inside, resting, napping, letting my body recalibrate. The only times I stepped out were to let the rooster into the yard in the morning and lock him back into the coop at night. I even thought about going out for a coffee this evening, but in the end I chose not to. Staying in felt truer to the rhythm I’m rebuilding — I didn’t need another cup of coffee to tell me I was awake.
So yes, I gained weight these past ten days. But today I chose to stop spiraling. Today I chose water, potatoes, egg whites, quiet, reflection, and presence. Today was the day of return.
