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"

[Dominique]

@Baltoscott: looks like you’re stuck to 159-160 with super-strong glue! Do you only weigh once a week, on Sundays? Or do you weigh more often, but only report the Sunday weigh-ins? If so, what kind of fluctuations do you see during the week?

Regarding energy expenditure estimated by Fitbit: do you use multiple trackers connected to your main account, or do you track your calories with a single tracker (if so, which one?). Although I (still) don’t log my intake, I do follow closely calories burned estimated by my Surge. Now that I’m about to switch to the Ionic as my main tracker, I’d like to know how close its calories are compared to the Surge.

[EmjayH]

USW (pre Fitbit) Nov 14 2016; 123kg
SW (Fitbit) March 2 2017; 97.7kg
PW August 07; 78.5kg
PW August 14; 77.9kg
PW August 21; 77.3kg
PW August 28; 76.9kg
PW Sept. 04; 77.7kg 😳🙈
PW Sept 11; 75.9kg
PW Sept 18; 75.1kg
PW Sept 25; 74.4kg
PW Oct 02;   74.3kg

CW Oct 09;   73.3kg
loss this week; 1 kg
Mini goal; 70kg by Christmas

practically no loss last week means double loss this week lol. 

[tamado]

Start 265 lbs 09/27/2015
This Week 157.0 10/10/2017
Last week 157.2 10/02/2017

Maintenance mode
Loss Range 105 lbs +/- 5 lbs

Canadian Thanksgiving in the books.  One big turkey meal, one big ham meal.  The anxiety still spikes on these weekends but I make a plan and stick to it and that has been serving me well.  

[EmjayH]

@tamado I know it can be so scary sometimes. Those big family weekends. Generally I control them but for the real big events I like to just forget and go with whatever. You can always cut ur calories back the rest of the week. 

Its different for everyone though. 

I type this this whilst I'm sitting in a cafe with a big bowl of pasta ragu and a glass of Pinot noir lmao. 

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[almost_where]

CW - 288 +3    8 WEEK AVERAGE + 6.125 LBS (+49)  USW - 363 3/9/16

PW - 285 +5

PW - 280 +4

PW - 276 +4

PW - 272 +0

PW - 272 +6

PW - 266 +4

PW - 262 +23

[Baltoscott]

@Dominique - I’ve got all kinds of possible data burn contamination issues.   For most of the past 4 weeks or so I’ve been testing my One and using it as my sole tracker, but bike ride calories typically come from my Garmin bike computer via Strava or MyFitnessPal (although both activities will show up on my fitbit exercise list, since they represent the same ride over the same time period fitbit will only use one of them, probably the second one that syncs).  I switched to my new Ionic over the past weekend, and for my commutes this week I’ve had both the One and the Ionic with me so I could use the Ionic for GPS activities in DC.  (Since I can’t turn the Ionic off, fitbit has to sort the steps between it and my One on my bike commute, but calories for the commute still come from Garmin via Strava — I use either the Ionic or the One when I get to work depending on the situation, Ionic for workouts, One during the work day because I wear another watch and don’t want to wear the Ionic with it).

Over the course of this past year I have mostly been using the Charge 2.  I usually will compare new fitbit trackers for step count accuracy, but I have not done that with calorie burn for the last couple of fitbits I’ve owned.  I will probably compare the Ionic and Charge 2 starting next week (after I’m a little more familiar with the Ionic).

I weigh daily and report the Sunday trend weight.  For the past two or three weeks my weekend calories have been quite a bit higher than my work week calories and I’m seeing some corresponding weight fluctuations.  Over a typical 7-day period there is around 3 lbs difference between high and low days, but I stretched that to 5 lbs with yesterday’s weigh-in of 163.4 lbs.  That already dropped to 161.6 lbs this morning.

[SunsetRunner]

@almost_where what's been going on? Anything we can help with? Hang in there! 

[Move.It.Move.It]

Start 128.5kg

Last weigh 115.8kg

This weigh 115.2kg

Shrinkage 13.3kg

Mini goal 115kg

Desired 70kg

I am following no plan at the moment just eating healthy and endeavouring not to be in a chair as much as possible. I have no time frame to hit my goal weight and I am happy to be on the journey going in the right direction.

For myself I think this was will be the way to keep the weight off long term.Almost at my mini goal. I have lost 13.3kg or 30 lbs so far. All things not planned I should hit it on my next weigh in 🙂

Trend weight is really hammering it home to me that is only a small amount of calories that can be the difference between losing and gaining.

[Daves_Not_Here]

My results after following the recommendation from  @Dominique to exercise daily -- I now have exercised 18 of the last 20 days.  Of course, I'm doing it the lazy way, as is my wont.

[Baltoscott]

Jan. 6, 2017:       202.3 lbs (starting weight)

                                              Ave. daily calorie consumption for week preceding weigh-in.

• Sun, 8.13:   160.8 lbs    2329
• Sun, 8.20:   160.1 lbs    2665
• Sun, 8.27:   159.3 lbs    2585
• Sun, 9.3:     ???             2604
• Sun, 9.10:   159.8 lbs    2792
• Sun, 9.17:   159.6 lbs    2499 
• Sun, 9.24:   159.4 lbs    2819
• Sun, 10.1:   159.1 lbs    2788
• Sun, 10.8:   159.4 lbs    2825
• Sun, 10.15: 159.3 lbs    2532

- 0.1 lbs since 10.8

-43 since start. 

Goal Range: 160-170 lbs

I wound up dropping the daily consumption average by about 300.  Not really on purpose.  The past few weeks have had a lot of extra social calories, which is usually what it takes lately to push me to eat over 3000 calories in a given day.  Will try this week to increase calorie consumption by adding some more nuts and nut butters.  

[almost_where]

CW - 291 +3    8 WEEK AVERAGE + 3.625 LBS (+29)  USW - 363 3/9/16

PW - 288 +3

PW - 285 +5

PW - 280 +4

PW - 276 +4

PW - 272 +0

PW - 272 +6

PW - 266 +4

@SunsetRunner  Thanks for reaching out. Just tackling the sugar and a couple other demons right now. I'm just trying to record everything during the lows so I don't fall off the radar. Have a good week 🙂

[EmjayH]

USW (pre Fitbit) Nov 14 2016; 123kg
SW (Fitbit) March 2 2017; 97.7kg
PW August 07; 78.5kg
PW August 14; 77.9kg
PW August 21; 77.3kg
PW August 28; 76.9kg
PW Sept. 04; 77.7kg 😳🙈
PW Sept 11; 75.9kg
PW Sept 18; 75.1kg
PW Sept 25; 74.4kg
PW Oct 02; 74.3kg
PW Oct 09; 73.3kg

CW Oct 16; 72.5kg

loss this week; 800g

Mini goal; 70kg by Christmas

today marks 50kg lost. Been a long journey but I still got a bit to go. The difference is 50kg ago I was gonna try to lose weight. Now I know I'm gonna lose it. I don't remember ever being as healthy as I am now. It's nice to know that you can turn ur life and health around at any time. You just need to commit 

[Dominique]

My numbers for this week:

Starting 1-Jan-2017: weight 67.4 kg, BF 18.5%, fat mass: 12.5 kg
Previous 1-May-2017: weight 62.2 kg, BF 15.0%, fat mass: 9.3 kg
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Previous 4-Sep-2017: weight 60.8 kg, BF 14.6%, fat mass: 8.9 kg

Previous 11-Sep-2017: weight 60.4 kg, BF 14.5%, fat mass: 8.7 kg

Previous 18-Sep-2017: weight 60.2 kg, BF 14.3%, fat mass: 8.6 kg

Previous 25-Sep-2017: weight 60.4 kg, BF 14.2%, fat mass: 8.6 kg

Previous 2-Oct-2017: weight 60.3 kg, BF 14.1%, fat mass: 8.5 kg

Previous 9-Oct-2017: weight 60.0 kg, BF 14.0%, fat mass: 8.4 kg

Current 16-Oct-2017: weight 59.8 kg, BF 13.8%, fat mass: 8.3 kg

Not much change on the weight front, but steady improvement with body fat (I prefer it this way!). I’ll be flying over to Washington DC next Tuesday, so I’ll try to make the most of this week at home in terms of nutrition and exercising. Time spent in the US hasn’t been conducive to fat loss (to say the least!) for me based on past experience .

[Dominique]

Wow, @EmjayH! 50 kg in 11 months is a lot. That’s an average of 2,5 pounds per week. What kind of activity level has allowed you to maintain the required deficit?

[Daves_Not_Here]

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today marks 50kg lost. Been a long journey but I still got a bit to go. The difference is 50kg ago I was gonna try to lose weight. Now I know I'm gonna lose it. I don't remember ever being as healthy as I am now. It's nice to know that you can turn ur life and health around at any time. You just need to commit 

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@EmjayH - I LOVE your attitude and how you describe the difference between intent and action

[tamado]

Start 265 lbs 09/27/2015
This Week 158.2 10/16/2017
Last week 157.0 10/10/2017

Maintenance mode
Loss Range 105 lbs +/- 5 lbs

Nothing exciting, still waiting for a replacement fitbit so I have been in data withdrawal 🙂

[EmjayH]

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@Dominique wrote:

Wow, @EmjayH! 50 kg in 11 months is a lot. That’s an average of 2,5 pounds per week. What kind of activity level has allowed you to maintain the required deficit?

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Those are my stats for the previous week. I eat around 1 eat around 1900 - 2000 calories a day. Fitbit tends to overestimate my calorie burn by about 10%. I use a charge 2.

on top of steps Monday; yoga

                         Tues; running (C-5k app)

                          Wed; PT with my trainer + run

                          Thur; weights circuit

                           Frid; PT with trainer (usually boxing)

                          Sat; running

                          Sun; rest 

so yeah pretty active lol. I do a short body weight circuit with smaller kettle bells most mornings also

[EmjayH]

@tamado At this point I'd be lost without my Fitbit. I really rely on it a lot 🙈

[EmjayH]

@Daves_Not_Here I've always admired ur persistent and happy upbeat attitude also

[Dominique]

@EmjayH: your incredible activity numbers and your schedule make it look like you’re a full-time professional athlete ! Do you have a job?