Weekly Weigh In

[Move.It.Move.It]

I am weighing myself every Monday morning and I am going to log my results each weigh for accountability and support. Please feel free to join in.

Start weigh                   125.5 kg 14/12/2015

Now                              124.2 kg 11/01/2015

Loss this week             200g

Loss to date                 1.3kg

"Slow and steady wins the race"

[almost_where]

CW - 247 +5     8 WEEK AVERAGE -0 LBS (-0)  USW - 363 3/9/16

PW - 242 -9

PW - 251 +8

PW - 243 -1

PW - 244 -0

PW - 244 -1

PW - 245 -0

PW - 245 -2

Seeing my 8 week average work its way out to 0 is an eye opening experience.

[Baltoscott]

    Jan. 6, 2017:  202.3 lbs

• Sun, 4.30:  177.7 lbs
• Sun, 5.7:    175.6 lbs
• Sun, 5.14:  174.4 lbs
• Sun, 5.21:  173.2 lbs
• Mon, 5.29:  172.1 lbs
• Sun, 6.4:     172 lbs
• Sun, 6.11:   170.4 lbs
• Sun, 6.18:   168.8 lbs --- Woot Woot, I'm in the 160s!

-1.6 lbs since last week

-33.5 lbs since start.

Goal Weight: 165 lbs

[SoulPhyre]

Okay, I weigh in every Saturday.

4/22/17:  179.9 lbs

6/17/17: 165.9

14 down, 16.9 to go!

[Kimbur96]

Doing my long runs on Saturday which means sunday is my lowest weight of the week so I"m using Sunday as my weigh in day. The running has really helped decrease my appetite and increase my weight loss. I know some of the loss is water but I ma definitely trending consistently in the downward direction. 

Starting weight: 158.8 2/1/17
Current weight: 145.8

Previous week: 147.8
Weekly loss (gain): -2
Goal weight: 135
Short term goal: 145

[EmjayH]

SW (pre Fitbit) Nov 14 2016;   123kg

SW (Fitbit) March 02 2017;      97.7kg

PW July 12 2017;                     84.5kg

CW July 19 2017;                     83.5kg

target weight 70kg by Christmas 

yay 😊 my bmi dropped below 30 this weigh in so I am officially just overweight as opposed to obese. 

[etvete]

Ultimate Starting Weight	265 lbs
Current Starting Weight	199 lbs
Last Week's Weight	193.1 lbs
Current Weight	192.3 lbs
Weekly Change	-0.8 lbs
Mini Goal	180 lbs

My weight is going back down!! I have maintained the higher calories and it seems like my body is getting used to it so now i am incorporating more activity so I am back in business!

[Grigonic]

Starting weight  310 lbs

01.01.2016 - 310 lbs

05.31.2016 - 280 lbs

11.01.2016 -280 lbs

01.01.2017 - 295 lbs

02.01.2017 - 286 lbs

03.01.2017 - 283 lbs
03.22.2017 - 273 lbs

03.30.2017 - 270.5 lbs
04.21.2017 - 275 lbs
05.22.2017 - 280 lbs
CW 06.19.2017 - 283 lbs

Hi everyone.
So another month went by and not a lot of changes.
Hurt both my heels playing to much basketball and running. Pretty sure it's Plantar Fasciitis.

Plantar fasciitis typically causes a stabbing pain in the bottom of your foot near the heel. The pain is usually the worst with the first few steps after awakening, although it can also be triggered by long periods of standing or rising from sitting. The pain is usually worse after exercise, not during it.

I guess my shoes weren't the best and I played on concrete couple times.
Also someone stepped on the side of my foot with their cleats playing soccer about 2 weekends ago so another thing to add to the plate.
Last week was on vacation for 5 days. 
Tried to rest it as much as possible (still have pain, not as bad though) and yesterday went and played soccer again taking it easy but the pain on the side has gotten stronger.
SO now my plan is definitely to watch the food intake and try to go to the gym this week but doing only weights sitting or laying down I guess.
I am wondering though now. My best results with weight loss are when I'm logging in food. I haven't logged for almost 3 months trying to figure out a way to eat without logging it.
The thing though is that MFP was set for 2 lbs loss a week and it says that my daily intake for that is 1900 for lightly active (I have a desk job). Usually I was having about 2000 calories a day. And All the exercise and extra burned calories I never used them. My deficit was about 15000 calories a week and that should be at least a 4 lbs loss but it was for me only 2 lbs.

So should I go back to using it?
I just wanna make one last change to my diet. I want to cut the beef and pork intake and increase chicken, turkey and fish instead.
Cause other than that I'm pretty good.

Right now I checked 4 different websites with BMR calculators. 
Every single one tells me that my BMR for maintaining weight while resting without any exercise or movement at all is 2275. 

So I know since I stopped logging in food my intake has been around that maybe 2500. 
And I just looked at my calorie burning average for the last 28 days and it's 3500.

So I just don't get it how is that possible???
Even let's say that I have 3000 calories a day ( which I know I don't, I usually have one cheat day a week and I don't try to recuperate for the whole week, of course keeping it all cool), I still have a 500 calorie deficit and as you all can see The number on the scale says a completely different story.

So what's going on guys?
What should I do?
It's all simple math making sure you burn more then you take in.
And like I said previously I'm only loosing weight when my deficit is around 2000 calories a day. And still instead of loosing 4 lbs a week I loose only 2 lbs.

And I did another calculation. 
I lost 25 lbs from January 1st till March 31st. That's 90 days and I know it was a great loss and journey no complaining, but I checked some numbers. In this 3 months I burned 364000 calories according to fitbit.

364000/90=4044 calories avg a day
let's say i was eating 2044 a day which leaves me with a 2000 deficit.
So 2000*90=180000

180000/3500 (calories deficit for 1 lbs loss) =51.5 lbs
Let's say I was eating 2544 a day whichleaves me with 1500 deficit.

1500*90=135000

135000/3500=38.6 lbs.
And to be clear for those 3 months I was working our like a psycho (at least 5 days a week) And I was logging in every day and was as accurate as possible. BTW I have a scale and all the things needed to measure as accurate as possible.
I wish I could do that same insane routine again, but it's Summer and I wanna have a life 🙂
Also I'm an engineer so numbers are my obsession.

SOrry guys for this long post again. I hope that your experience and input will help me find the golden middle for me too.
I drink 2-3 liters of water a day and get about 7 hours of sleep. Just for info if you wonder.

Everybody have a great day and good job everyone.

@Dave001 I know we spoke and you told me what you do. ANd I'm amazed by your results since we started around the same time. But I can definitely tell that your journey is amazing. 
Wanna congratulate everyone with the good job and keep it up.

Thanks guys

[EmjayH]

@Grigonic Go back to logging ur food and don't take what mfp and Fitbit tells you for calories burned as gospel. They're rarely perfectly correct. You need to monitor it itself to get the correct stats. Everyone's metabolism is different.

i had problems in my heels and knees at the start but as i lost more weight the pains slowly subsided. Hopefully the same will be for you 

[Baltoscott]

@EmjayH - congratulations on getting your BMI below 30.  Great accomplishment, and I know it feels really good.  

[Grigonic]

Guys who can tell me a good way to measure body fat?
No calipers or anything crazy like that.
Thanks

[EmjayH]

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@Grigonic wrote:

Guys who can tell me a good way to measure body fat?
No calipers or anything crazy like that.
Thanks

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I just use my aria. It seems close enough

[Grigonic]

I had aria for about a week and returned it.
It used to show me a 8% difference every single time I was getting on it.
So I didn't need it as a regular scale and returned it.
Thanks though

[tamado]

@Grigonic

Calipers are actually dirt cheap from amazon and work reasonably well but I find with my excess skin they are a bit off.  The measuring tape methods actually give you a pretty good idea as well.  
Most weight loss places will measure using a handheld device where you enter your height and weight and then hold it and it gives you your bf%.  The principle is that the conductivity of your body varies with body composition (fat is more resistant to electrical flow than fat) so a small (safe) current is passed through your body and based on the resistance to said current, a bf% is determined.  
This is a good website to put measurement data into.

http://www.linear-software.com/online.html

I'm about 7% with a caliper, 8% with a tape and 10% with a fancy electronic thing at the gym.

[tamado]

Start 265 lbs 09/27/2015
This Week 157 06/19/2017
Last week 159.6 06/12/2017
Maintenance mode
Loss Range 105 lbs +/- 5 lbs

I made it to hot yoga before I came home today so I know my loss isn't actually 2.5 lbs but that's all I had to go on.  I do know I ate lean and clean this week and I could tell my scale numbers were trending down.  I think I showed myself that I can control my weight with a little discipline so that makes me happy.  I am going to try to stay pretty clean again this week but maybe up the intake a touch.  I don't want to deplete either.

[Grigonic]

Thanks @tamado
The one with tape measure it shows about 4% more than the electronic one in the gym.
But I read couple articles saying that the electronic ones might be off somewhere between 5-10%.
I like the one at the gym because it shows it lower for me 🙂
My only problem is my belly part. Upper body and legs are pretty good with not a lot of fat.
And as you know the tape one goes based off the waist and I don't think it's very accurate. 
Also they say it's different with every method.
I just thought someone found a cool article or something.

[LilLash]

I'm not sure what happened to me, but I totally fell off the bandwagon. So, I'm starting over.

USW - 200.4 (6/17/17)

CW - 200.0 (6/19/17)

CGW - 190

UGM - 125 - 135

I've started running again, and once I get that habit back on track, I'll try the gym again. I've found it very, very hard to get myself to go to the gym because of the amount of shame I've had about my weight gain. 

I've never seen people here get judgmental about it, though, so I'm going to try, once more, to use this to keep me honest.

[Dave001]

Thanks @Grigonic, I am on an amazing journey! And I'm enjoying every moment of it. 

I'm not an engineer! So my method might be a bit woolly and unscientific for you. The only thing I weigh or measure is me! If I'm not losing, I either eat a little less, move a little more or a bit of each. I don't use an app or spreadsheet to monitor my intake. I just record it with a pen in a diary. Food in black, exercise in green, every day diary stuff in red. It works for me! There has to be some green every day. Even if it's just a walk.

As for calories, no idea! I don't care for counting them. Many people become so obsessed by numbers that they forget the joy of eating well and exercising happily. I don't want to risk becoming a calorie bore!

On to plantar fasciitis, I found rolling my foot over a bottle of frozen water helped. I have insoles for all of my shoes now and haven't had a flare-up for years. Talk to your physio!

[jlow]

Ok, I'm back on the horse people.  Trying to be active and having definitely cut down on the amount I'm snacking throughout the day.  Gotta keep this ball rolling now!

jl 

SW - 193.8 - March 20  First day of spring! 

192.7 - March 27th, one step in the right direction.

192.8 - April 5th.  Same... close enough! 

191.8 - April 10th  Down, yay!!!!

193.1 April 18th  boo...

192.7 April 26th  OOOKAY

192 May 1st  Keep going...

191.7 May 8th Slow...

193.0 May 16th

194.5 ish May 29th ???  entry MIA

193.7 June 5th

193 June 15th

CW - 192.3 June 19th

Total down - - 1.5 

MiniGW - 189

UGW - 160

[tamado]

@Grigonic, if you're already measuring, just compare you to you!  IE: Look for changes.  You may want to get a caliper to watch changes in different parts of your body, I really vary from place to place.

Further to what @Dave001 said, it all depends on how you like your data.  I like specific measurables, some like soft numbers and an intuitive approach.  If bf is something you want to play with, order a cheap caliper and see what you see.  The only true test is water displacement but obviously that's not worth it for most of us.

[Grigonic]

Thanks @Dave001
I will try that trick for Plantar Fasciitis
It's getting better. I just never had it. And it only hurts for couple minutes when I wake up.
Afterwards it's fine.
And I'm not really obsessed with the numbers. I was just saying that 2+2=4
With weight 2+2=3or5 sometimes 🙂
@tamado I for sure won't go pay a crazy amount of money for that.
I will give the calipers a try for sure.
Thanks