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L3 Week 6 – A Night Out and No Blip

It was my birthday on Friday and went out for a meal with M. We went to a chinese buffet place I like and I had 3 plates worth and 3 beers. Also, although I walked to and from the station (equivalent to my lunchtime walk when I’m at work) I didn’t take an exercise walk per se.

Despite this, I still lost a lot of weight this week. So much so that I wondered about my scales again. But I tested them against other scales and they seem fine. Also it’s been really hot this week-end. I suspect a lot of this loss is dehydration. Something I am remedying by drinking more. But not beer, or sugary drinks. Strictly diet squash.

Lost: 5lbs
Lost so far: 21lbs
Average Weekly Loss: 3.5lbs
Weight: 283.2lbs (20st 3lbs)


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L3 Week 4 – Steady As She Goes!

You know what? 3rd time around it’s harder to think up witty titles and/or interesting things to write – but I’m opting for something inane/functional now rather than leave it til later in the week.

I will say that I am slightly disappointed that my loss this week has dropped to the more reasonable longer term rate that it has. Why?

a) because it’s happened relatively quickly and I have NOT strayed AT ALL from the path lo these last three weeks!

b) because a loss equivalent to last week would have put me at my first stone lost.

Still I can’t say I’m really that bothered. A loss is a loss and it’s not a trivial one.

Lost: 1.4lbs
Lost so far: 12lbs
Average Weekly Loss: 3lbs
Weight: 292.2lbs (20st 12lbs)


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L3 Week 3 – Loose Trews

Well my trousers are feeling looser so I must be doing ok.
(no I don’t know why I’ve apparently gone Scottish)

Lost: 3.4lbs
Lost so far: 10.6lbs
Average Weekly Loss: 3.5lbs
Weight: 293.6lbs (20st 13lbs)


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L3 Week 2 – Big Week

Lost: 7.6lbs
Lost so far: 7.2lbs
Average Weekly Loss: 3.6lbs
Weight: 297lbs (21st 3lbs)

Well I knew that I’d have a better week than last week – mostly because I’m being strict on the counting and on the exercise – but I never realised it would be this good. That’s my largest single weekly loss ever. It puts me back under 300lb, which is nice. That was my first milestone target.

Still a long way to go and experience suggests it’ll slow down quite quickly but I can’t deny I’m happy with that.


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L3 Week 1 – Counting Counts

So, a little late, here’s the results of week 1 of L3. The reason for that is that I made a concerted effort to finish Under the Dome this week and so most of the time I’ve either been reading or certainly not feeling like updating the blog.

Lost: -0.4lbs
Weight: 304.6lbs (21st 7lbs)

Not great eh? Well it’s partly the fact that I started off a bit slack – in my own mind I was ‘easing back into it’, I was eating up the remainder of any treat food I’d had left over. Most of that I probably could have absorbed but by the end of the week I slipped into an over indulgent weekend.

What I realised was that I needed to get tough with myself again. Having a week like that – well the early part of it – is ok when you’re a few months into a diet, but if you start off that way and you slip, well the place to slip to is more extreme.

So I’m back to a tougher regime:

  • actually counting calories (including measuring) and not relying on what I know looks right
  • sticking rigidly to limits – once I start allowing myself to go a little over my daily allowance, or skip exercise, then it’s a slippery slope.

The good news is – early unofficial week 2 reports predict I’ll be looking at a healthy loss.

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L3 Week 0 – The New Normal

*sigh*

Seriously.

*really big sigh*

OK. I’m back at the point where I want to start trying to lose weight again. And having just eschewed flubbage another cute term for the project isn’t necessarily consistent, but who ever said I was that? Still “L3” is nicely cryptic and terse.

Plus I couldn’t think of anything better.

I’m writing this mainly to register my weight at this new starting point. Which is 304.2lbs. (At least I think so – my scales seem to fluctuate more than they used to – but then maybe I’m nearer the edge of their tolerance)

Anyway I about a stone lighter than I was two and a half years ago when I first tried this. In other words I’m nearly back to what I was. And I feel uncomfortable and I get out of breath easily. So sooner or later I felt I had to re-start the diet/exercise.

So it’s become the new normal, the new default position. At least for what I should be doing. Once I didn’t really think about it and ate what I wanted. Now, even if I do that, I’m doing it as someone who feels I really should be dieting. I’ve become the kind of person I used to feel sorry for – someone either denying themselves or feeling guilty for not denying themselves.

But I feel I don’t have a choice – as I said it’s uncomfortable being this overweight.

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Less Is More Week 17 – Bony’s Back!

Lost: 1.8lbs
Lost so far: 35.9lbs
Average Weekly Loss: 2.1lbs
Weight: 258.8lbs (18st 7lb)

Given that last week’s official loss was 0, and given that I was down to 259.2 the following day – just under a pound a week and less than half a pound since Tuesday isn’t that great. But… well it’s still a loss. I’ve got no more social events planned for the next week so I should be able to do a full week on the diet with no exceptions.

Oh and the bony ass is back (as is the loose watch-strap – different watch, same problem).


Having just updated the ticker I’ve realised I’m now over half-way to my one year target – which at week 17 is not too bad!

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I Won That Bet!

One of the other things I keep telling myself is that I can ‘absorb’ a single night/day’s excess and still lose weight but there’s a timing element – Friday can be too close to Monday to make it back – I bet I’m down by tomorrow night.

Unofficial weigh-in tonight – 259.2lbs

In other words I lost nearly a pound and a half last week – with a slightly flexible definition of ‘week’.

So the knife-edge is blunted by the hands of time – or something. 🙂

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Less is More Week 12 – Comparisons

Lost: 2.6lbs
Lost so far: 30.9lbs
Average Weekly Loss: 2.6lbs
Weight: 263.8lbs (18st 11lb)

One of the things about having done this before is that I’m constantly comparing my progress with various points in the past. Like I’m about 3months in, how does that compare with 3months in to Lesamy? Or how does it compare with May 2009 when I was at my lowest? Or when, roughly, did I get back to this weight when I let things slide again? Or when was I about this weight earlier this year when I was trying again, but not really succeeding?

The trouble with all this comparison is that a) it’s probably not that helpful and b) I can never remember what I weighed at all those key moments. Oh I’ve got my old spreadsheets but I usually think about this stuff when I’m out walking, so I’m relying on memory. My memory.

Perhaps the best thing is just not to bother comparing. And just as soon as I figure out how to do that…


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Less is More Week 3 – Unsustainable?

Week 3

Lost: 3.4lbs
Lost so far: 12.7lbs
Weight: 282lbs (20st 2lb)

Gotta love these early weeks and the big weight loss.

So I’ve been concerned about a couple of things this week. One is that I repeated my weekend bonus scheme from last week (2300cals on Fri, 2100 on sat and 1900 on sun). The other is that I was doing 6 laps of the park for my evening walk – combined with walking from work and back to my house that’s 1.5-1.75hours.

So on the one hand I’m concerned I’m doing too much exercise whilst eating too many calories at the weekend – hang on you’re thinking, don’t those two sorta cancel each other out? Well sort of but they have something else in common – they’re both probably unsustainable.

1.5+hours is a lot of time every day. On the one hand it’s not like I’d be doing a lot with the time otherwise but on the other it also wipes me out for the rest of the evening. I think it needs to settle down to 1hour/day.

The problem with the weekend bonus scheme is that I can get away with it at the moment because I’ve got that early big loss, I’m doing a lot of exercise and I’ve had virtually no freebies. In a month or two when an hour a night is what I’ve settled down to and I may have the odd meal out or whatever I may struggle to still lose anything if I’m also having extra at the weekend. So I think I need to phase it out. Certainly the next time I have a freebie I’ll have to give it a miss that week.

Still, hard not to be pleased with the progress.