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L3 Week 6 – A Night Out and No Blip

Post author By latepaul
Post date 25 April 2011
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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 5 – Crap! A Stone and a Blister

Post author By latepaul
Post date 19 April 2011
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Warning: the title this week is strangely literal.

Which doesn’t mean that I got a blister because of a stone in my shoe. But I did get a blister – just a day or two after I was thinking, “around about this stage is when I start getting blisters from the walking.”

But no, that wasn’t what the stone was about. The stone is the milestone I just passed – my first stone of weight lost.

And the crap – well when I started out for my walk tonight a bird pooped on my head. Direct hit, full-on splat! I wiped most of it off with a tissue, carried on my walk and showered when I got back. Which actually was nice – warm water on aching muscles.

Anyhow – here’s the numbers kids:

Lost: 4lbs
Lost so far: 16lbs
Average Weekly Loss: 3.2lbs
Weight: 288.2lbs (20st 8lbs)

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L3 Week 4 – Steady As She Goes!

Post author By latepaul
Post date 11 April 2011
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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

Post author By latepaul
Post date 26 March 2011
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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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Less Is More Week 17 – Bony’s Back!

Post author By latepaul
Post date 27 September 2010
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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 16 – Grumpy on the Knife-Edge

Post author By latepaul
Post date 20 September 2010
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Lost: 0lbs
Lost so far: 34.1lbs
Average Weekly Loss: 2.1lbs
Weight: 260.6lbs (18st 8lb)

I’ve spent most of the last 2-3days feeling very grumpy because pre-official weighing suggested that I would put on weight. Given that I’ve stayed as I was I’m mildly relieved and less grumpy – but I’d already thought up the title and liked it.

The reason behind these numbers isn’t a complete surprise to me. Friday night I had a pizza and a bottle of wine, after having been to the pub Friday lunch-time. Also on Saturday whilst I stuck to my calorie limit I didn’t do my walk – which is equivalent to another 800calories.

So if I had splurged in this way I shouldn’t be surprised and grumpy right? Well yes, except that in the past I have gotten away with more and still lost weight. But it’s not even that, it’s the fact that it feels like I can’t even have one day off without it having an impact. Imagine I’ve hit my target, imagine that I’m trying to maintain that weight – then this week’s result is telling me that I can at most afford to let my resistance slip for a few hours or the odd meal. That I must keep up the exercise and diet at a similar level.

Actually if I was at that level I would probably allow myself to go a pound or three up before I started to worry. Although what it does remind me is what a knife-edge I’m on. The first few pounds will go back on as quickly and easily as the first few fall off.

Ultimately I kept going – forcing myself out for a walk on Sunday and keeping to the diet – because what’s the alternative? Even if I decide I don’t want to lose weight do I want to go back to growing ever larger and finding clothes hard to find? to getting out of breath walking up the stairs? No. And the effort in maintaining this weight is an awful lot like the effort needed to lose just a pound or so a week.

In any case, that’s what I’m currently telling myself. I hope it’s working.

This week I have a regular social event on Thursday which involves a take-away and beer. I shall indulge but with one eye slightly on the quantity. I shall also be aware that I shall need to get back on the diet straight away and that that ought to be enough time to allow for a small loss by next Monday. (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.)

Anyway with that I’ll sign off. Not so grumpy as I could be.