Author: paul

Quote from an article:

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NOD32. Is this the 32 bit implementation of Noddy??? 😉

PE

So is this where I beat up on NOddy for not tracking?

FWIW, I managed to fill all 25 of my points alarmingly easily yesterday… although this may have been offset by god knows how many bonus points at kunfu training (and associated cycling)

Guys, I’m on leave over the next few days, but I will be watching… waiting… reading… 😉

PE

-1.6kg last night; -5.6 for the rolling four week total. Gotta course, gotta go.

Ciao.

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1st 4 weeks: -5.9
2nd: -4.5
3rd: -5.4
4th: -3.0
5th: -5.2

Noddy, can you what some trend lines in for these data? I’d be using a log or exp trend, though, as I’d hate my loss to go negative!

What do I read from this? I am still not reaching the giddy heights of the first four weeks, although it’s not too shabby an effort for the last four weeks. The fourth data point is the only one (so far) to include two weeks where the balance went up, so is perhaps an anomoly in some respects.

If current trends continue, by the time the 7th data point comes in (Week 11), there is no way I will be losing more than 5kg over a four week period anymore 🙁 Ah, for those halcyon daze…

The more I play with this, the more I think that the 4 week rolling total is a better (although more sophisticated => requiring a higher level of analysis) than the week by week figures.

Does anyone know what a small choc chip bikkie is worth (I would guess 1.5 pts). It was about the size of three 20 cent pieces stacked up on each other. Tasted quite buttery.

Ciao,
PE

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 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’m expecting a weight gain this week. However, it’s mainly my own fault.

Tues and Wed were fine.

Thursday was Uni House committee meeting. I calculated how many sandwiches I could have and I think I went over by 1/4 of a sandwich, which was OK. But then the second course for lunch came out. There I am faced with a choice: some pieces of pear, or fine old vintage cheese. Whoops, I went for the cheese, and chased it down with a rather nice cab sav. I did however, politely decline the chocolates (the same ones we had at our wedding)

Friday I was in Sydney for a professional association type conference. More sandwiches there, but lathered with butter and the like. I didn’t feel as though I could stand around scraping off condiments when I was trying to be professional, so I had them. Probably one or two too many. I also had a coulple of choc chip cookies for morning tea. The kicker, though, was the choclate mousse dessert. Whoops again. Tried to make up for it on the flight home by declining dinner.

Saturday was not so bad; I ate fairly well, but miscalculated the number of points of K-Time twists (I thought 1.5, they were 2), so I ended up slightly over for the day.

Yesterday was a complete disaster. 7.5 points bacon, egg and muffin breakfast; 10 points worth of choc chip muffins in the afternoon, a full WW meal in the evening (24 points already), plus assorted nibbles throughout the day. Ouch.

However, my resolve is back. One of the key features of last week was not I was not fully and accurately tracking my points. Time to get anal again.

I dropped another 2.1 kids last night. This takes me down to 9.2 for the year to date, and 5.4 for the last four weeks

I lost 1.2 kg this week, total loss of 7.1 kg. Woo hoo!

What is more interesting is the rolling four week figures.

Week 0 -4 I lost 5.9 kg
Week 1 – 5 I lost 4.5 kg.

I still think that this is a better way of viewing weight loss; Nodster, I’d also be inclined to do this with the measurements we took last night!