Tag: getting back on track

Sorry about the lateness of the post – I stayed up late last night finishing my latest book and so put off writing this.

One of the things I noticed recently was that I’m constantly comparing myself to how I was doing back when I first started dieting. So I finally gave in and added a comparison graph tab to my spreadsheet. Basically I took my stats from the first year of Lesamy and lined them up with my current efforts. By ‘lined up’ I mean I chose week 3 of Lesamy to be the equivalent of week 1 of L3 as that was the closest to my start weight this time around. Long story short, I’m doing a little less well (39lbs vs 44lbs) but close enough for it not to be a big deal (so I can stop worrying about it and obsess over something else!)

The other thing that came out of this was to fix in my mind the number 231 – which is not quite my lowest ever[1] that would be 226 – but it’s a low that I reached a couple of times and hovered around during summer 2009. Once I’m back in the 230s I’ll feel like I’ve really made up the ground I lost. And, that’s now nearer than my start point.

A big loss this week. Below 19st – yay! A fair bit was dehydration though – very hot yesterday. I’ve got a weekend away this coming Friday so I’ll be happy to stay level next week.

Lost: 4.2lbs
Lost so far: 39.2lbs
Average Weekly Loss: 2.6lbs
Weight: 265lbs (18st 13lbs)

[1]by “ever” I mean since I started dieting/post-2000. In 2000 I was ~17st (=238) and I was only ever going up until I started Lesamy in Sep 2008.

So my goal for next week – whether I lose weight or not – is to keep to the diet every day.

Weeeellll. I sort of did this. I had what would have been, any other week, a perfectly fine week. I stuck to my diet every day apart from Friday when we went to the pub for lunch (Fish and Chips and beer) and it was raining too hard for me to do my evening walk. I thought about the stepper – and the thought was something like, “God no, not the stepper!”. But apart from that I’ve been good.

The numbers seem to reflect that. In fact I’ve got a pretty respectable two-week average. Which me being me make me suspicious about the scales. But I’ll take the new low figure and change the battery in time for next week.

Lost: 3.8lbs
Lost so far: 35lbs
Average Weekly Loss: 2.5lbs
Weight: 269.2lbs (19st 3lbs)