Today’s Weight: 378.8 lbs
Yesterday’s Water: 100 oz
Yesterday’s Steps: 5,553 steps
Yesterday’s Accomplishments: 0 Items Completed.
Yesterday was another day I got to sleep in, thanks to my father-in-law. We drove out to visit friends on the way home and then got home around 11:30 PM. So aside from a lot of driving and some visiting with friends, I didn’t really do much yesterday.
But oh!
Finally some downward movement on the weight front! I was very good about food all weekend because I wasn’t feeling well and therefore wasn’t hungry. Unfortunately I also wasn’t good about drinking water either, so I suspect some of my “progress” will vanish once I drink plenty of water today. But I don’t think all of it is water.
I’m down 3.2 pounds from last week, and 21.2 pounds overall, averaging 1.9 pounds a week.
I’ve also had an interesting blogging experience the last few days. For some reason, spammers had found the post entitled “Day 8 + Week One Results!” and had been periodically posting one or two spam comments on it. Over the last few weeks, the frequency with which that happened increased slowly, until it started to be a bit of a pain. So I changed my settings to disallow comments posts on older posts.
Apparently this tripped a flag for a bunch of spammers, and in less than 24 hours, I had over 1900 spam comments submitted on my recent posts (where comments were not closed yet). I don’t know WHY changing that setting caused a flood of spam, but it definitely did. Attempting to stop the flood, I kept adjusting settings to be more restrictive, but it only made it worse, somehow.
In any case, I now have an anti-spam comments plugin that seems to have stopped the problem for now – I no longer am being carpet-bombed with spam. I did go through and delete all the offending comments completely, as well as the user accounts that they created. It appears the anti-spam is working, as since yesterday, I’ve had a ton more user accounts appear, but they’ve been unable to post comments. Haven’t quite figured out what to do about that problem as I’m going to have large numbers of users registering in an attempt to send spam, taking up space in the database. I may disable user registration, but then I’ll have to set comments back to allow non-registered users to comment (which the anti-spam system should still catch).