Month: March 2004

Okay, the stats are in, and Paul is likely to make BMI 25 (around 90 kg) first… around May.

Tells me it’s time to put down the Tim Tams, crack open the unused tracker and start tracking.

Down a further 2.1 this week! That is 5.2 kg on the rolling 4 week cycle! Excellent!

Nodster, here’s some numbers for the nine weeks for me, in kg:

118.3
115.7
114.5
112.3
112.4
111.2
109.1
109.3
107.2

Cheers,
Paul

I’ve uploaded the photos from a few weeks ago, but it’s week 8 for us on Monday. TIME FOR MORE PHOTOS!

Also, if you could e-mail me your weekly weight stats, I’ll make up Excel graphs and stick them in your little area at the top of the page. Check mine out for an example.

Before:

Clearing starts:

Which becomes (after buying new plants to replace the dead ‘uns):

At 6 points every 30 minutes for big fat blokes like me, the above clearing and planting represents some 36 points. I wont use it, but it’s really cool that there’s a visible outcome of the exercise points.

Anyone is free to come along and help with weeding^wearning lots of bonus points. 🙂

Hey folks
I am not going to make it to Mondays meeting. Can someone make a few smartarse comments in my name?

Hey Andrew
When are you going to put up the photos you took at WW a few weeks back?

This is this morning’s weight, without much trying. Coupled with the planned blitz on the garden next weekend, I should be a shoe in for a weight loss.

I gained 0.6 last week though. I don’t believe those scales as my own weighing has been pretty consistent. I think I will stick to the left hand scales, not the right.

Luke went out to the car show last night so I took the oppotunity to cook a beef casserole….which I do maybe every six months. It took ages to cook (I am now unused to the amount of time it takes to cook meat!) so I had a small dinner with B. I told myself that I would save the casserole for lunches and freeze some. Yeah right, it smelt so good that I had a little when I took it out, then more, then more…. I calculated the damage this morning as being about 6 points over. It could have been worse but it means damage control for the rest of the week because I can’t exercise due to my purple slug-like broken toe. *sigh* – self control still an issue….

I gained 0.2, but given the major blowout which happened, frankly I am surprised it was not more.

Some interesting notes:

* this is only the second week in which I have gone up
* this is only the second week in which I have been slack with tracking (the first week was when I went up)
( this is only the second week that I have not pigged out on the WW Choc crisp bars (the first week was when I went up)

Here’s my four week trends:

Week 0 – 4: -5.9 kg
Week 1 – 5: -4.5 kg
Week 2 – 6: -5.4 kg
Week 3 – 7: -3.0 kg

This tells me that I am losing weight still, despite my setback last week, and that the rate at which I am losing weight is slowing. I need to lose another 2.8 kg to hit my 10% goal. Based on these trends, I am predicting that this will happen in Week 9 or Week 10, probably Week 10.

Once I have another three or four data points, I suspect that the gradient will be sufficiently shallow for me to even make a long range predicition about when I should be hitting the top of my goal weight range.

I lost a poofteenth of a kg last night. Although I was happy that I didn’t go *up* I am a bit disappointed that after vomiting/being sick for 2 of the days I might have done a little better. On Saturday night we went out to dinner and I couldn’t finish my beef curry it was so *huge*…I ate about 2/3 of it but it was probably enough to do the damage…that and the fact that I kept stealing chips of B’s plate….

So back on track today. I resolve this week to keep an eye on portion sizes, especially for things like pasta and rice. I actually measured my pasta serve into a cup this afternoon rather then visually doing it and I must say it was significantly smaller then the portion I had estimated.