Weight loss

Recently my weight loss has accelerated to an average of around 2¼lb per week so I remain pleased indeed with the progress. I am still eating less than 12,000 kcal per week on average. I wonder if I will have reached a healthful weight by my birthday. Time will tell.

Update: I just about made it.

Interrupted productivity

I have been frustrated by how I am rather more productive at work than I am at home. One realization is that interruptions may be key: at work I have long blocks of time where I am not much pulled away from what I am doing. At home there are meals and other activities that I coordinate with my family. When I do get started on my own work and it is time to do something else, at that point I was enjoying my work and would have been fine to continue.

It's getting started that's the difficult part and that's why interruptions are costly. As I've mentioned previously, partly that's about learning to ignore my family and do what I would were they not around. Where there are concrete plans I can gladly fit in with them but I am still learning to change my habits so as to make my own way when I am not important to what others are doing, e.g., watching television that I can miss.

Hair management

I quite like not having a moustache and beard. My seborrheic dermatitis doesn't then have any facial hair to attract it and I don't have to make judgment calls about trimming hairs.

However, to shave I need more than a quick run with an electric razor: shaving well takes time, every day. Not very long but enough to make a difference. Old-fashioned shaving works excellently but I don't have the spare time while commuting to work full-time and trying to make progress on other things at home: I'm looking for ways to save time, not for extra chores.

While I can live at the moment with a small-screened high-DPI laptop, as I age and my eyesight worsens I might eventually need larger print. Similarly, in trying to trim my facial hair, actually spotting all the small hairs could become tricky: I already need decent light. A full shave could then become the easier option even if that means daily attention. At least I still have my old shaving kit.