Sharing something about losing weight

I'm posting this here BECAUSE I have so few followers here, and hence will annoy a smaller number of people as I fulfill my urge to talk about something we normally don't want to hear about from other people. Hopefully my take on it will not be as irksome as other posts on this kind of topic.

Many of us get the urge to shape up and take off a few pounds now and again. I am working on taking off most of what I gained during the pandemic as my modus operandi drifted toward being sedentary. I am confident that no matter how good my intentions to 'keep it off', I'll be doing something like this again in five years.

What really caught my attention is this: I am having some predictable amount of success in this effort, which naturally I measure by looking at the scale once a week. It WAS my intention going into this to try and take off about n.m pounds per week, and that seemed mildly aggressive, but I had lost much more per week than that in the past for several weeks in a row. However, for the last two weeks I have lost a bit more than n.m pounds, and something in my head wants to celebrate this as a victory, and continue increasing the pace of weight loss. I CAN do that, but my conscious mind doesn't think I should. So there is a fight between my conscious mind and my subconscious. My fear is that if I don't follow the obsession, that I may give up on the plan altogether too soon. What I need to do is reinsert some other productivity targets into my schedule, and not allow weight loss and exercise to take up the majority of my day.

I'll find some way to report a follow-up in a few months that doesn't sound like bragging or lamenting.