Here’s the latest update!
Keep going! 34.1 lbs to go!
Weekly loss: 2.7 lbs. – Daily deficit: 1353 calories.
You will reach your goal of 155 lbs on 2009-04-21. (255 days early!)
Minor update on the graph, I’ve added lines to show the barriers between BMI ranges that show up between your current and goal weights.
So far, I’ve lost 8.7 lbs of measured weight (2.2 lbs in the last week) and 6 lbs of “real weight” (2.7 lbs in the last week). That’s good progress, but I feel like I could have done a lot better.
I was going alright until around the 186 lb “barrier,” where I seemed to stall a little. At first, I think it was just an issue of water weight. I really wanted to end the week under 186, though, because that’s the BMI barrier for my height between “obese” and “overweight.”
The real trouble started on Wednesday night, though. I went to Davis to hang out because Drew M came back to town. Told myself I would only have one drink, but ending up sampling three types of Chimay with Drew M and Aaron L. To make things worse, I had drunk munchies and scarfed down fries and M&Ms afterwords.
Then, I was stranded in Davis because I carpooled with Joe M out but was going to come back with Will N, but he decided to spend the night. Spent all day in Davis and didn’t really drink water throughout the day, so I was pretty hungry when dinner time came. Had fries for an appetizer and a larger meal than I should have. Then I had hella water afterwards because the food was pretty salty to me.
Anyway, Thursday’s weight is skewed because I took it after I got home on Thursday night, with a stomach full of food and water. A day of mistakes drove my progress backwards by several pounds, so lesson learned – my self-control goes to shit when out with friends. I don’t want to become a hermit, so I really need to be aware and watch out for that in the future.
I’m going to try to ramp up my exercise program, so hopefully I’ll have better news to report next week.
that is still good progress.
Watch out for losing weight too fast — it’ll just come back with a vengeance. My friend did that, and she’ll gain 10 lbs in the blink of an eye if she slips up.
I know for me, when I get stalled out, taking a day off, eating a little more, and then reattacking diet/gym works. Dunno why.
Posted by alipton on January 24th, 2009.
Yay, a real comment! It’s been a while…
But yeah, I’ve heard that when you’ve stalled out, it means your metabolism has scaled back to match your caloric intake. So to break out of it, you either temporarily go back to a higher intake to trick your metabolism into going back to normal, or you scale back intake even further.
Posted by Dinh on January 24th, 2009.