The Great July Stint part 1

I'm staying in my university accommodation. It's hard to know what I'm actually doing here. I suppose it's all under the guise of "sorting myself out", but only if sorting myself out secretly includes 3am orders to Dominos while on Skype to Lina and waking up at 10pm at night in a state of intense confusion. Yes, really - 10pm. I can't even remember what time I fell asleep but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere around midday.

It's now 5pm on Thursday; I woke up at 2.30, which to me is just as good as "resetting". At 3pm, I weighed 161.8.

This is "progress", but only for the fact that I weighed 161.8 after four days of gorging myself on 1200+ calories (and drinking on most of those nights). I have to remind myself that it's not normal to gain on 1500 calories - in fact, by most "normal" people's standards, 1500 calories is a diet. As it stands, being 19 days deep into a self-imposed summer restricting stint, 1500 calories is approximately 87.5 per cent more calories than what I have become comfortable with. And entirely not good enough.

I've set my "final" goal weight at 153 pounds for now - far enough under 160 not to get back into this range after a weekend of bad eating; far enough above 150 not to be tempted to immediately push to 140s, then lower, which could set me up for re-bound weight gain. I suppose my plan is to hit mid-150s, then channel all this obsessive crap into extreme healthy eating and exercise. I know I always say that, but when I'm actually there I think it'll be something I want to hold onto.
 
I want to be done with restricting by the end of August at the latest, by the time we move into the new apartment (~22nd). That gives me around 5 weeks to lose around 8 pounds, which doesn't sound that bad in itself - except it's me, and past evidence would appear to corroborate my paranoid theory that 8 pounds can take just about forever.

Without further ado, here are the rules:

- 900 calorie a day limit;
- Counting everything, including alcohol, and coffee;
- Plenty of water and caffeine, as per usual;
- Starting from next Monday, regular work-outs. As many as I can possibly persuade myself into.

Bring it on.