Weekend Weigh-In, Slow And Steady
I had a good week with mostly healthy food choices and great workouts. I’m still having trouble breaking the evening sweet trend but the rest of my meals were well balanced and healthy. For 5/7 of this weeks final meal I either included a sweet or called the sweet the final meal. They weren’t usually large sweets but that doesn’t excuse them. I’m all for a few here and there but that’s just too many.
Hopefully it didn’t impact my weigh-in too negatively this morning, lets go see …
Previous Weight — 269.0 lbs (on 9.29.2012)
Current Weight — 267.6 lbs
Change In Weight — -1.4 lbs
Not bad considering my food not being 100% on track. I’d have loved to see what the number would have been had I wrangled in the sweet tooth. My workouts were great and were a mixture of P90X weights and aerobics with some running thrown in for good measure.
Last week I said I was going to share my daily weigh-in graph. My goal for doing this is to show the ups and downs of a typical week for me and how the scale should not rule your week. It’s a tool that is not reflective of your progress, especially over the short term. So many losses go in fits and starts and your body adjusts in other ways when you get healthy like muscle gain and shrinking before the pounds might fall.
Here’s my graph for the week, I left the whole month visible because I plan to do this for 1 month).
As you can see I usually shoot up the day following a free meal. That’s typically followed by a quick loss, though not all of it. That then trickles off and may plateau followed by an end of week final drop. The middle of week plateau also may be due to the fact that I typically take a midweek off day where I don’t workout but I do eat well.
The overall trend is down and the rest is just the ebb and flow of my body. You to should be aware of your body, its trends, and patterns and always understand the scale but don’t beat yourself up over it. Is just a number and is not an accurate reflection of your overall progress.
How’d your week go?
I am also in a love/hate relationship with my scale. Last Wednesday, I weighed in at 279 and on Thursday 283. This is when my mind starts to sabotage my progress by telling me I am not going to reach my goal of losing 100lbs. It is good to hear I am not the only one with scale issues.
I very much HATE my scale right now. I did great with my eating, tracking everything, and my home scale was showing a pretty promising loss of about 5lbs. The weight watchers scale? 1.8 pounds loss.
F*ck.
You are right though, it’s just a number, and regardless of what that number may be, I’m moving in the right direction.
Steve´s last [type] ..Weigh in 10/6/12 VLOG
this is so true – everyone’s body is different and can have different changes throughout the day/week/month. This is pretty much why *I* don’t weigh in but for once a month anymore (OK, occasionally I give in but most of the time I don’t think about it anymore). I am a reformed scale hopper!!
I think it’s important to have other things to achieve throughout the day/week/month so I do food planning and logging, set goals for x times at the gym or running, “no chocolates at work” is my goal for October (so far so good), that sort of thing, but I’m NOT going on the scale because it has too much of a mental effect on me.
In any case, this post is about you and that you had a loss this week, so congrats on that! Is there something you can do to replace the sweets habit? Like do 5 planks of 1 minute before you allow yourself to have them?
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I think that you are so smart to track your weight carefully but also know that fluctuations are normal.
Congrats on the weight loss!
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I’ve started only using the scale once per week. You can fluctuate a ton with water weight, and gaining or losing 3-4 pounds can be as simple as the time of day you weigh yourself and how much you’ve drank/eaten recently. I weigh myself on Sunday mornings on an empty stomach, just to stay consistent.