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L.i.M. – New Units, New Goals, New Look

So I’ve re-vamped my spreadsheet and I’m now officially working off pounds as my main unit of measurement for Less is More.

I’ve also decided on a few specific goals, to wit:

  • Target weight is 168lbs (12stone) by June 2012, 224lbs (16stone) by this time next year.
  • I’m aim to keep my average weight-loss at 1.25-1.5lb/week – actually slightly more than I need.

OK, so it seems “a few” is really “two”. I did have others but they’re really the how not the what. Plus they haven’t changed that much (1800 cals/day except for an occasional treat day of 2300  unless I’ve had a freebie that week).

I’ve also created a new ticker & graph. I’ve used tickerfactory again because I wanted to get on with it and the one other site I found after a brief search was taking too long to load. It’s up on the “weight graph” page right now and I’ll be putting on my weekly weigh-in posts.


Not really related but something I did at the same time was to tinker with the appearance of my blog – changed the theme, adjusted the widgets on the side and added back the old banner pic (it’s a time-delay shot of Canary Wharf I took.)

That’s all for now – just didn’t want to wait until monday to announce it.

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Less is More Week 2 – Keeping At It

Week 2

Lost: 2.3kg (5.1lbs)

Lost so far: 4.2kg (9.3lbs)

Weight: 129.4 (20st 5lb)

A good week as you can see. Obviously a lot of the success is down to the “early windfall” that you get when starting/re-starting a diet. However I am pleased that I keep to my regime much better. First week truth be told I had a bit of a binge at the weekend and was fortunate still to lose weight. Since that pattern of keeping the diet+exercise during the week but letting go at the weekend was what killed off Lesamy I knew I had to address that. I did so by tweaking the formula a little. I allowed myself a higher budget of calories on Friday, Saturday and Sunday (2300,2100 and 1900 respectively). More important probably was that I made sure I did my exercise (I have the blisters to prove it!).

I don’t know if I’ll carry forward the same thing next weekend and in the future. I may just allow myself one higher budget day if I’ve had no freebies that week, or I may have say 500 “weekend calories” to distribute as I see fit. The important thing is to set it in advance (even if only a day) and stick to it – not constantly adjusting it upwards.

I’m also thinking of creating a new ticker/graph. I may see if there’s better sites out there. Also I’m considering dropping Kg and measuring in overall pounds for a number to graph and stones and pounds for my own readability.

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Less Is More (is Lesamy mk II) – week 1

There’s a line in the first episode of Studio 60 where Danny Tripp, the recovering addict who’s just failed a drugs test talks to his partner about slipping up. He says,

I had twelve years, now I’ve got eight days

(or something like that I may have the numbers wrong)

Anyway I sort of know how he feels.

Which is to say I have become the cliche.

Which is to say that about 3 months short of 2 years after I started Lesamy I’m almost back to where I started. Ok I didn’t put all the weight back on. But I am back to wearing a lot of my ‘fat’ clothes (which I only still have because I never got around to giving them to the charity shop) and crucially I’m back to getting out of breath when I climb the stairs.

*sigh*

*shrug*

I was going to post all about how it happened. About the point where my motivation failed me and the stages of decline after that. But, well all that’s in my blog really. You can take it that since my last Lesamy update I more or less went back to eating how I used to two years ago. And of course not exercising.

The crucial thing now is to somehow find that motivation, that commitment, that stubborness to not give up that I managed to maintain for several months but haven’t had for longer.

Anyway I’m starting again. I’m counting from where I am now(*) which I think will help me “start over”.

So:

Week 1

Lost: 1.9kg (4.2lbs)

Weight: 131.7 (20st 10lb)

(*)ok, technically where I was last week.

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Lesamy Week 74

So I stuck the diet during the week and although I allowed myself a little leeway (possibly too much) at the weekend I kept up the exercise. This seems to have worked as I’ve lost all the weight I put on last week plus a little more. I’d like to keep that up for another week or two, but I’m cautiously happy.

loss this week: 1.6kg (3.5lb)
loss this year: 0.5kg (1lb)
Total loss: 24.4kg (53.8lb or 3st 11lb)
To target: 24.4kg (53.8lb or 3st 11lb)
Current weight: 119.7kg (263lb or 18st 11lb)


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Lesamy Week 72, Watch the Weekends

I put on about a pound this week. As usual (for the last few months) the problem was a weekend binge. Actually it was a bad friday night followed by a couple of days with M. I’d’ve coped with the later if not for the former.

I really need to watch those weekends.

loss this week: -0.5kg (-1.1lb)
loss this year: 0.3kg (0.7lb)
Total loss: 24.2kg (53.4lb or 3st 11lb)
To target: 24.6kg (54.3lb or 3st 12lb)
Current weight: 119.9kg (264lb or 18st 12lb)


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Lesamy Week 71, Not Counting

This week I’ve achieved something that I’ve been trying to do for months. I lost weight whilst not counting calories. Sometime around last autumn I decided that I didn’t really need to count every calorie because I knew what my meals should look like. I am a creature of habit and so I have relatively few variations of meals. So I ought to be able to do my diet without the counting part. I tried this for months but I kept slipping up at the weekends and eating more. Not a fault of not counting but frustratingly not allowing me to prove it could be done.

Well since I’m now back on the straight-n-narrow I have shown it can be done. It’s mainly about sticking to regular reasonable meals and not having in-between snacks. It’s also about getting the exercise habit again. I’m back to walking every day which I think helps a lot.

Here’s the numbers:

loss this week: 2.4kg (5.3lb)
loss this year: 0.8kg (1.8lb)
Total loss: 24.7kg (54.5lb or 3st 12lb)
To target: 24.1kg (53.2lb or 3st 11lb)
Current weight: 119.4kg (263lb or 18st 11lb)


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Lesamy Week 70, Zigging and Zagging

Don’t really want to spend a lot of time on this because – bleugh – I put on weight this week. It was all going so well until the weekend. Same old story of the past few months – although I thought I’d pulled myself out of that with my new year resolution re-start. Oh well. Start again…

loss this week: -1.7kg (-3.7lb)
loss this year: -1.6kg (-3.5lb)
Total loss: 22.3kg (49.2lb or 3st 7lb)
To target: 26.5kg (58.5lb or 4st 2lb)
Current weight: 121.8kg (268lb or 19st 2lb)


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Lesamy Week 69 – Starting Over

Well not quite starting over because I’m still counting weeks from the original Lesamy start date. But let’s face it – I let things go. I let myself drift to the point where I not only stopped dieting, I stopped exercising and I sort of stopped caring. I was discouraged and not really sure why I was doing it any more – and that doesn’t help. But I realised I had a chance with the New Year to start again and so I took it.

As to where I am – taken since I started Lesamy I’ve lost weight, taken over the last week I’ve lost weight. Since this time last year? I’ve put on 3lbs. Of course over that time I lost a lot of weight – I was down nearly 3stone at one point – but I put it back on again. It’s scary a) how quickly the weight goes back on and b) how quickly I was back to my bad old eating habits. Maintaining is going to be harder than I thought. But for now I’m not thinking of that. For now I just want to start again losing weight. Fortunately I’ve done this before so I know how.

loss this week: 2.1kg (4.6lb)
loss this year: 0.1kg (0.2lb)
Total loss: 24kg (52.9lb or 3st 10lb)
To target: 24.8kg (54.8lb or 3st 12lb)
Current weight: 120.1kg (264lb or 18st 12lb)


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Lesamy Week 59 – Better than Better than Nothing

🙂

Weekly loss: 0.3kg (0.7lb)
Total loss: 31.9kg (70.3lb or 5st)
To target: 16.9kg (37.4lb or 2st 9lb)
Current weight: 112.2kg (247lb or 17st 9lb)


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Lesamy Week 58 – Better than Nothing

I failed to resist the temptation of a weekend binge yet again. However by Sunday I pulled it back enough so that I ended up about even overall

Weekly loss: 0.1kg (0.2lb)
Total loss: 31.6kg (69.7lb or 4st 13lb)
To target: 17.2kg (38lb or 2st 10lb)
Current weight: 112.5kg (248lb or 17st 10lb)