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Jan. 6, 2017: 202.3 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!
- Sun, 6.25: 168.0 lbs --- Whoa, the year is 1/2 gone ... last weigh-in for June.
- Sun, 7.2: 167.1 lbs
- Sun, 7.9: 166.6 lbs
- Sun, 7.16: 165.3 lbs
- Sun, 7.23: 163.8 lbs --- Yay! Blew right through my goal!!
-1.5 lbs since last week
-38.5 since start.
Goal Weight: 165 lbs
Woohoo! So, in about 7.5 months I've finally hit my goal weight (this is about what I weighed in High School). My rate of loss was about 1.2 lbs/week, and my BMI and fat % are in the healthy range at 23.6 and 18.7%.
Six months really isn't very long, but that is really just my most recent effort. I've got 5.6 years of weight records from my Wi-Fi scales and this goal has seemed a little out of reach every time. I'd get down to reasonable levels (BMI of 24 -- 26) for a period of time, but that has often been followed by long upward trends to less healthy weight. Day to day or even week to week it's hard to see, but the changes are dramatic when looked at over a 5 year span ...
I've been thinking about maintenance since I started losing in January. Eventually I'd like to stop counting calories and rely more on hunger cues to manage how much I eat. But short term I want to build a little more muscle and lower my fat percentage through my weight training. Over the past six months I've lost 29.4 lbs of fat and 8.8 lbs of lean body mass (around 3.3 lbs of fat for every lb of LBM). So my plan over the next six months is to continue to "cut" or lower my weight to about 160 lbs to lower the body fat % a bit more, and then to "bulk" up to 170 lbs to try and gain back some LBM. After that I'll try to go back to 165 lbs and see if I've managed to change my body composition with a lower fat percentage at that weight.
The scary part will be gaining weight after trying so hard to take if off this year, but I think doing it deliberately will be a little different than in the past when it happens despite my best efforts to maintain.
So next week I'll update my "Goal Weight" from 165 lbs to "160 lbs to 170 lbs" and we will see how it goes.
This thread has been a great place to share thoughts, get (and hopefully give) positive feedback, and to see the many different journeys we are all going through. Thanks to all of you for your comments and encouragement. I plan to keep posting here for a long time.
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Start 265 lbs 09/27/2015
This Week 156 07/24/2017
Last week 159.6 07/18/2017
Maintenance mode
Loss Range 105 lbs +/- 5 lbs
I continue to compare my portions, proportions and choices to those around me. I evaluate healthy people and compare and I evaluate obese/unhealthy people and compare. I spent the weekend with my inlaws camping. My father in law is an obese type II diabetic. When some cookies came out, I passed, he said "guess I better shoot up" and gave himself an insulin shot in the stomach. The cookies were large macaroons from our bakery. My wife cut one in half, so did my mother in law. My father in law ate a half, then the other... That was me. If I like it, I should have a lot of it. To even limit portion size is to punish yourself. I somehow managed to overcome that mentality. I had one small bite off of my wife's macaroon, then a square of dark chocolate. I did not feel deprived and I participated in dessert in some way. In the morning, they looked confused and somewhat disgusted by my mix of spinach, kale, peppers, onions and mushrooms sauteed up with eggs on top. They made pancakes and I had one but I cut up a bunch of fresh fruit for them instead of just copious amounts of syrup.
I saw my father in law fix a step in front of their camper. He removed six screws, flipped a board around and screwed 6 new ones in (with a drill). He struggled to bend over to reach, was exasperated when he had to get up to go to the truck to get new screws and was somewhat out of breath when it was done. My family went on the go-carts and we rented canoes and paddled around the little pond. I am loving being a healthy and active dad. I am no longer making excuses about what a hard week I've had and my feet, knees, back, etc hurt so dad is going to sit this one out. Now the kids wish I'd sit down or take a nap sometimes :-).
I do not tell this story to judge, I tell it because it makes my sad and it is a reminder of where I have come from not very long ago. I feel like he especially has given up and she just wants to "support" him but it starts to look like enabling. When he was first diagnosed he "tried" to eat healthier and she replaced all of the sugar in the house with artificial sweeteners and tried to make diabetic food but those efforts have faded.
I wondered if I had eaten too much this weekend but I weighed in my lowest since I started losing two years ago so I guess not. My previous lowest weigh in was 156.8
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Start 128.5kg
Last week 117.5kg
This week 117.1kg
Shrinkage 11.4kg
Mini goal 115kg
Desired 70kg
This week I weighed myself everyday to see what my weight would do. I fluctuated up by 3kg (6.6lbs) which had me panicking but it slowly came back down to recording a loss of 0.4kg. I am really enjoying my food at the moment because I am spending a lot more time in the kitchen cooking up a storm. My goal gift for getting to 115kg is a Magimix food processor. Today I am making a new recipe Red Lentil and Pumpkin Soup. Soups are a great way to get more veggies in and they are so filling.
The delicious looking topping is low fat yogurt and coriander.
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