Week 119

2lb loss!

Frankly I'm stunned.

I was expecting to be withing half a pound either side of where I was last week, so a 2lb loss is quite surprising.

Hmmm...

There is an explanation that's just leapt to mind, although I don't like it much and I don't know enough about these matters to be sure.

I wonder whether the loss is more to do with muscle mass than fat. Quite simply with the increased tiredness, my activity levels have really dropped off.

We know that unless you are exercising, you tend to lose muscle before fat, and that muscle weighs more than fat.

According to my scales (although they were not expensive ones, so I can't say I completely trust them), my body fat percentage is slightly higher now than it was a few weeks ago when I was slightly heavier.

It's a theory. Unfortunately I have no idea how good a one it is. If anyone has a better understanding of these things please let me know.


Statistical Significance: I am at my lightest now since I began.

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 6lb - 174lbs
Body fat: 23.2%
Total Weight Loss: 101lbs

Week 118

0.6lb gain.

I'm a bit disappointed, although I've had a couple pieces of cake that account for it.

What's so bloody difficult at the moment is that I don't have the energy for exercising. Before I can reach the point 10 minutes in, where everything starts happening, I've run out of momentum. And it's steadily getting worse.

The last B12 injection doesn't seem to have had much impact and there are times when motivation or anything even vaguely resembling enthusiasm for life is non existent (see Bollocks on my other blog).

Activity is the key to moving further forward, but my energy levels are getting lower and lower.


As an aside, discounting introductory entries, this is my 100th post to this blog.

Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 8lb - 176lbs
Body fat: 23.5%
Total Weight Loss: 100lbs

Week 117

0.6lbs loss!

Finally a move back in the right direction! Not quite as much as I'd have liked considering the internal battles I've been fighting this week, but although my eating has been nigh on perfect, activity levels have been negligible.

Unfortunately, weight gain or loss doesn't seem to reflect how much you battle with your cravings, only whether you give in to them or not. You can spend an entire week fighting every waking moment, or just glide through with barely a second thought: the result is to do with the outcome of the fight, not how hard it was.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 7.4lb - 175.4lbs
Body fat: 22.6%
Total Weight Loss: 99.6lbs

Week 116

1lb gain.

Part of me is relieved that it's only been a pound and another is really pissed off that I've slipped back under the 100lb loss mark.

What I hadn't catered for last week was the emotional fall out from the exhibition. Yes it went well, but it was such an emotional roller-coaster on the build up and the actual thing itself that there was an inevitable come-down afterwards and this past week has been quite a battle.

A friend of ours took the kids Friday night, which gave us a couple of days away on a well needed break, but that meant lunches and dinner out, plus coffees and nibbles in the mornings and afternoons.

All in all, a 1lb gain could have been so much worse.

This week, however, I really am hoping that we can properly get back on track.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 8lb - 176lbs
Body fat: 22.5%
Total Weight Loss: 99lbs

Week 115

Even.

Phew. I'm happy to have maintained this week. With Maggie's exhibition in full swing, our eating patterns were a little erratic. A lot less meals were thought through in advance and with the sheer emotional toil of it all, there have been a few comfort treats.

All in all I feel I've had a lucky escape. Hopefully this week will see us properly back on track.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 7lb - 175lbs
Body fat: 22.8%
Total Weight Loss: 100lbs

Week 114

No Change.

Which is no bad thing considering the past few days. With my wife's art exhibition and my father coming up to visit, our eating patterns have been completely awry. I was fully expecting to have put on a couple of pounds at least.

Still, it's a even week (see last post for this theory), so perhaps I've been able to absorb more - it just means that next week it could all show up quite badly.

But being 0.2lbs up from a fortnight ago means an end to the zig-zag decline. Ah well, it was a fun excuse while it lasted...


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 7lb - 175lbs
Body fat: 23.1%
Total Weight Loss: 100lbs

Week 113

o.2lb gain.

That's a bit disappointing. Despite the fact that I've been on track this week, and that I'm at least a tooth lighter, I've not really budged.

My hope at the moment is that next week will show a drop again. Looking at my stats over the past couple of months it's like there are 2 different scales going on, alternating between weeks. If you measure the weight fortnightly, then I drop on both levels:

ODD WEEKS
Week 105 - 179.8lbs
Week 107 - 178.6lbs
Week 109 - 178lbs
Week 111 - 176.4lbs
Week 113 - 175lbs

EVEN WEEKS
Week 106 - 181.2lbs
Week 108 - 177.2lbs
Week 110 - 175lbs
Week 112 - 174.8lbs

However, if you put them together, I'm zig-zagging all the way. So, as next week is an even week, I should have a bigger drop.

So after years of struggle I've finally realised it's got nothing to do with food, and everything todo with whether it's an odd or even week...


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 7lb - 175lbs
Body fat: 22.5%
Total Weight Loss: 100lbs

Week 112

1.6lb loss!

Woohoo! Back over the 100lb mark!

Which is all a bit confusing to be honest. This week I had a major blow out on Friday when eating lunch out with Dr Maroon, then having a family meal out in the evening. Stuffed to the point of bursting. I've been more or less on track the rest of the week, but as last week showed, that doesn't always mean anything.

Whatever strategies I've managed to develop over the past 2 years to lose the weight I have, I still fall apart the minute I eat out. First of all the portion sizes are so much larger, then there are deserts available, but mostly it's the idea that I'm paying for it so I'm buggered if I'm going to waste a single crumb.

Fortunately I don't eat out that often these days.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 6.8lb - 174.8lbs
Body fat: 23.2%
Total Weight Loss: 100.2lbs

Week 111

1.4lb gain

Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks.

I thought I was going to be OK this week. In fact I was actually convinced I should have lost a pound, maybe two. Right up until the point that Maggie reminded me about The Chocolate Cake.

I'm still annoyed though. Apart from that I've had a near perfect week.

Now I'm going to yo-yo around the 100 pound mark for weeks and weeks to come. What I would like now is to get comfortably past this marker so that pound or two wobble isn't going to push me back over the wrong side of it again. But on Friday I'm meeting a friend for lunch and then we've got a big family meal in the evening, which is always worth 2 or 3 lbs.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 8.4lb - 176.4lbs
Body fat: 23.3%
Total Weight Loss: 98.6lbs

Week 110

3lb loss!

100 Pounds!!!

I've lost 7 stone 2lbs or 45.36kg - in other words:

100lbs!!!

I wasn't expecting to hit that target this week. I can only guess that last week was one of those funny abberations because I never lose 3lbs in one week, but it does translate as having lost 2lbs in the last 2 weeks, which makes much more sense.

110 weeks ago, on February 15th 2005, I was 19 stone 9lbs, or 275lbs. This morning I am 12 stone 7lbs, or 175lbs.

I want to celebrate with a big meal out for the whole family and a huge cake. Unfortunately, if I do that then next week I'll be 4lbs heavier again.

It could be a few weeks before I'm comfortably past this marker and am not likely to slip back under because of an abberation, but this is the first time I've hit this weight for something close to 20 years.

I think I am going to allow myself a brief *smug* moment.


Starting Weight: 19st 9lb - 275lbs
Current Weight: 12st 7lb - 175lbs
Body fat: 23.5%
Total Weight Loss: 100lbs