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"

[Jotex]

Thanks @Baltoscott!

[CopperGalVT]

Time for the weekly check-in:

More activity this week, which is showing up on the scale. Lost 2.2 lbs. 

Onward!

Starting Weight: 177 lbs.

Weight Last Week: 173.6 lbs.

Weight This Week: 171.4  lbs.

Loss This Week:  2.2 lbs.

Total Loss So Far: 5.6 lbs.

Goal Weight: 140 lbs. 

[Baltoscott]

USW, Jan. 6, 2017:  202.3 lbs

CSW, Jan 6, 2019: 163 lbs

Goal 155 lbs

• Sun, Jan. 6, 2019:   163 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 13, 2019: 162 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 20, 2019: 161.7 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 28, 2019: 161.1 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 3, 2019:   160.9 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 10, 2019: 161 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 17, 2019: 161 lbs

I was up and down a few pounds on my daily weigh-ins throughout the week, but in the end my TrendWeight wound up right where I started last Sunday.  

[Jotex]

February 18

SW 78 kg

CW 62.5kg

GW 60 kg

@Baltoscott - I can relate to your experience  last week (happened many times to me). I forgot to post last week, but am only down ½ kg (@ 1.1 lbs) since Feb 4. But according to Trendweight, I'm on track to reach my goal of 60 kg by mid-March. Fingers crossed!

[Sergiu37]

This week was bad, had a cold, not in a good mood, barely left the house, eat a lot on 3 days, but still lost a bit of weight.

Starting Weight: 99 kg

Weight Last Week: 93.3 kg

Weight This Week: 92.6 kg

[HisDudeness]

Sorry for the slacking on posting. Work got a little busy, then went to Mexico to escape the cold Midwest winter, then back to busy at work. Back in diet mode now that I am back from my vacation. Unfortunately my first full week of dieting I was up 1.6 pounds, but I am blaming it on the post trip weight gain. Because I was at least -750 calories per day for 6 days and my measurements went down from my pretrip measurements. So hopefully it is just water weight. I wish I would have weighed myself the next morning after returning from the trip rather than waiting 6 days. Ah well.

The good news is before I left, I weighed in at 212.1, which is lowest I have been in 10 years after doing Weight Watchers were I went from 262 to 212 and basically quit. Not quitting this time, on to the new goal of 190 pounds.

Date/Starting Weight/Current/Weekly Change

12-10-18/217.2/216.7/-0.5

12-17-18/217.2/216.3/-0.4

12-24-18/217.2/217.0/+0.7

12-31-18/217.2/217.0/-0.0

01-07-19/217.2/216.4/-0.6

01-14-19/217.2/215.6/-0.8

01-21-19/215.6/213.8/-1.8

01-28-19/213.8/212.1/-1.7

End of Maintenance

02-04-19 -On Vacation

12 Week Diet Start

02-11-19 -No Weigh In

02-18-19/212.1/213.7/+1.6

Original Starting Weight: 271(01-15-18)

Total Weight Loss since 1/15/18: 57.3 pounds

Current Weight: 213.7

New Weight Loss Goal:190

[Baltoscott]

USW, Jan. 6, 2017:  202.3 lbs

CSW, Jan 6, 2019: 163 lbs

Goal 155 lbs

• Sun, Jan. 6, 2019:   163 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 13, 2019: 162 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 20, 2019: 161.7 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 28, 2019: 161.1 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 3, 2019:   160.9 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 10, 2019: 161 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 17, 2019: 161 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 24, 2019: 161.2 lbs

Well, my last weigh-in for February was a slight gain for the week and for the month.  Although I've been trying to lose weight for the past several months by modifying habits and eating less calorie dense foods without strictly measuring and counting, so far I'm having a hard time doing it. Happily, I've been in a healthy weight range for some time now, so this is mostly learning about how my body reacts to different eating strategies.  I think over the next few weeks I'll try skipping or significantly reducing a few meals/week to see how my body reacts hungarwise.

[bikerhiker]

So far, I have been able to naturally maintain my current weight @ 135 lbs; around 61.3kg and I am pretty happy about it.  When my weight was @ 142lbs and I had to maintain this by essentially running a lot of marathons, fast 10km runs, swam 3000 meters and do 100km bike rides, before my body gave out.  My weight eventually rose to 160 lbs.  Today @ 135 lbs, I only do light exercises and some strength training plus core workout to protect myself against major injuries while working in nursing.

It is fascinating that I found I am able to eat those "so called" bad food that makes you gain tons of weight like wheat, ice cream, MSG in Chinese food, and pastries and while I don't eat them every day, I try to enjoy them like twice a week and surprisingly enough, my weight didn't jump up so much and it always, like clockwork, settles right back to within 135 lbs.  I didn't have to watch what I eat as long as I eat healthy 80% of the time and not heavily laced with sugar.  

This is a total eye opener for me, because I was always educated to think that I need to do extreme exercises like running, swimming and cycling lots of miles in order to lose and maintain a lower weight.  But as it turned out, I only need to eat what my body needs, do light exercises to maintain fitness and health and the weight naturally floats and hovers at the healthy range, but the key to this is my complete lifestyle change.

[Jotex]

February 25

SW 78 kg

CW 62.1kg

GW 60 kg

My weight was up-and-down a lot this past week for some reason. But I did manage a modest loss (-.4 kg or slightly less than a pound). I know I should be doing intermittent fasting, with 2 days/week eating only 600 calories. But I haven't had the discipline to do it. I love the taste of food!!! 

[Sergiu37]

A little set back this week. But hopefully the spring will come and I should be more active

Starting Weight: 99 kg

Weight Last Week: 92.6 kg

Weight This Week: 92.8 kg

[HisDudeness]

Back on track this week and have mostly lost my vacation weight gain. Almost back in positive territory (or should that be negative?). Though when weighing in, I was 212.2, then on my re-weigh a moment later I was 212.4. Argh. Tried again and was still 212.4. Not sure what caused me to gain 1/5 of a pound in one second. Such is the fun of weight loss! The other good news is my waistline measurement was down a bit more as well.

02-04-19 -On Vacation

12 Week Diet Start

02-11-19 -No Weigh In

02-18-19/212.1/213.7/+1.6

02-25-19/213.7/212.4/-1.3

Original Starting Weight: 271(01-15-18)

Total Weight Loss since 1/15/18: 58.6 pounds

Current Weight: 212.4

New Weight Loss Goal:190

[HisDudeness]

@Jotexyeah doing the two day fast would be to hard for me. I like food to much as well. I kinda do the daily fast thing though were you don't eat between 8pm and 12 pm the next day, except I do have a protein shake in the morning. The weekdays are pretty easy to accomplish, but I struggle sometimes not eating after 8pm on the weekends. 

[Baltoscott]

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@HisDudeness wrote:

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Though when weighing in, I was 212.2, then on my re-weigh a moment later I was 212.4. Argh. Tried again and was still 212.4. Not sure what caused me to gain 1/5 of a pound in one second. Such is the fun of weight loss! The other good news is my waistline measurement was down a bit more as well.

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@HisDudeness That your waistline is going down is probably better measurement of progress than weight loss, as it tends to be a slightly better measure of fat loss.  Even so, I find that even that it can vary by an inch or a few centimeters from measure to measure. And week to week changes sometimes seem to have more to do with hydration than actual changes in fat.  I used to measure (and record) waist measurement weekly so I had a trend to evaluate, but I notice that I've stopped doing it; maybe because I always seem to be within that one-inch measurement error.  I'll start doing it again on Sundays anyway. 

I like using one of these to reduce error rate and help get the tension consistent measure to measure.  

[Baltoscott]

USW, Jan. 6, 2017:  202.3 lbs

CSW, Jan 6, 2019: 163 lbs

Goal 155 lbs

• Sun, Jan. 6, 2019:   163 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 13, 2019: 162 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 20, 2019: 161.7 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 28, 2019: 161.1 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 3, 2019:   160.9 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 10, 2019: 161 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 17, 2019: 161 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 24, 2019: 161.2 lbs
• Sun, Mar. 3, 2019:   160.6 lbs

[Jotex]

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@HisDudeness wrote:

@Jotexyeah doing the two day fast would be to hard for me. I like food to much as well. I kinda do the daily fast thing though were you don't eat between 8pm and 12 pm the next day, except I do have a protein shake in the morning. The weekdays are pretty easy to accomplish, but I struggle sometimes not eating after 8pm on the weekends. 

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Thanks for the moral support and sharing from your experience @HisDudeness. I have been doing the 18-hour (more or less...) fasting for about 1-½ years. Like you, some days I eat later than 6 pm (on average closer to 8 pm because I work out thrn eat). My weight loss has slowed to a crawl since the autumn, so wanted to give my system (metabolisn) a gentle kick in the pants to start losing quicker. Alas, as I said, I enjoy eating too much. Plus, I feel I deserve a reward after working out. It seems I am my own worst enemy. 🙄

March 4:

SW 78 kg

CW 62.2 kg

GW 60 kg

Tiny increase of 1/10 kg since last week. {sigh}

[Sergiu37]

Pretty big loss this week.

Starting Weight: 99 kg

Weight Last Week: 92.8 kg

Weight This Week: 90.2 kg

[Starchild68]

Ultimate start wt: 184.0 lb May 04 2004   This was when I first joined Weight Watchers

One year ago:     149.4 lb Mar 10 2018

147.8 lb Nov 10 2018

147.2 lb Nov 19 2018

146.2 lb Dec 01 2018

148.2 lb Dec 08 2018

147.8 lb Dec 22 2018

147.6 lb Jan 05 2019

147.6 lb Jan 05 2019

147.2 lb Jan 12 2019

147.8 lb Jan 19 2019

146.4 lb Jan 26 2019

146.4 lb Feb 02 2019

147.8 lb Feb 09 2019

148.2 lb Feb 16 2019

148.2 lb Feb 23 2019

146.8 lb Mar 02 2019<-previous weight

146.8 lb Mar 09 2019<-now

No change this week.

Interim goal:        143.0 lb

Hanging in there, sorry I have been MIA for few weeks.  The end of February was not my finest showing, too many meals out again. Then I had my annual physical: mostly good except my LDL cholesterol is up, what a shock! It has been stable for several years but I have been lapsing into bad old habits (extra portions, ice cream, etc.). I know I need to get serious about food choices again!

[Baltoscott]

USW, Jan. 6, 2017:  202.3 lbs

CSW, Jan 6, 2019: 163 lbs

Goal 155 lbs

• Sun, Jan. 6, 2019:   163 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 13, 2019: 162 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 20, 2019: 161.7 lbs
• Sun, Jan. 28, 2019: 161.1 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 3, 2019:   160.9 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 10, 2019: 161 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 17, 2019: 161 lbs
• Sun, Feb. 24, 2019: 161.2 lbs
• Sun, Mar. 3, 2019:   160.6 lbs
• Sun, Mar. 10, 2019: 160.8 lbs

Slight bump up this week.

[Baltoscott]

@Jotex — I don’t have any experience with fasting or particularly narrow eating windows (or desire to try!) but I wonder if you moved your workouts from evening to morning if it would be easier for you to avoid the temptation of a treat after the workout?  It sounds like you have a habit of not eating before noon, so it might be easier to not eat after workouts in the morning.  And moving the workout from evening to morning might also make it easier to have an earlier dinner. 

[Jotex]

March 11:

SW 78 kg

CW 61.6 kg

GW 60 kg

Goodie - down .6 kg this week. According to Trendweight, I should reach 60.0 by mid-April. Lucky for me, Easter eggs are good for a keto diet (just NOT the chocolate ones!). 

@Baltoscott -- thanks for the suggestion to perhaps shift my work out time to the mornings. I'll give it a think. In any case, I will have to develop more self-control. 

I'm going back (more faithfully) on my keto diet. Hope that will also jumpstart the fat burning process again.