Misleading (-4#)

The title says it all, the 4 pound loss is kind of misleading.  I actually was down another 2 pounds before I left for my vacation over the 4th, but I didn't report it.  This is my catchup report.  It'll skew some of my numbers some, but not bad so I won't worry about it.  At least i'm caught back up. 

Also, I *DID* weigh in last week as planned - I was actually down a pound.  Today takes that pound plus the pound I lost over the weekend and brings me to 2.  All in all, that's a win for me.  Consider I had zero exercise except the dunes and a day swimming at the beach, and then also consider my terrible diet.  I expected to gain, not lose - any loss at all is definitely a win.

So now I have nothing planned until the end of August.  No trips, no vacations, no "free" weekends. . .nothing.  Just nose to the grindstone, working on taking my 62% as far up as I can.  It feels like things are really progressing for me.  We went shopping for some new clothes and i'm already into a 38 waist.  Coming from a 44, that's pretty good.  I keep trying to figure out if weight lost will have more or less impact on my clothing.  It's expensive having to buy everything all new, and I really need to.  While on vacation I could barely tie up my swimsuit because it was too big.  I just keep thinking like this:

10 pounds of fat @ X thickness / 44" waist != 10 pounds of fat @ X thickness / 38" waist

Note that the X is arbitrary - it just has to be the same in both sides.  I have no way to validate this.  It feels right, but I could be wrong.  I just hate the idea of buying new clothes now and having to replace those in 6 months when I'm done losing and getting into a steady state.

So I was reading on a site that a male who is 6'1" should ideally weigh about 165.  I lol'd.  That's ridiculous - I don't know any male over 5'6" who weighs that.  I'm totally considering making it my goal.