Weigh-in 17

Start weight: 178.8 kg (394.2 lbs)
Last week's weight: 151.7 kg (334.4 lbs)
Current weight: 150.6 kg (332 lbs)
Loss this week: 1.1 kg (2.4 lbs)
Overall loss: 28.2 kg (62.1 lbs)
Start BMI: 56.4
Last week's BMI: 47.9
Current BMI: 47.5

Another 1.1 kilograms off this week. Overall it's been a not-too-bad month. On my last weigh-in of March, I was 155.9 kg, so a 5.3 kg loss in a month is entirely reasonable. I really am hoping to break below the 150 kg mark next week, though. But I'm probably due for another less than stellar week. I've been looking at my rate of loss and there seems to be a bit of a pattern:

So you can see that I enjoy relatively good weight loss for a couple of weeks and then not quite so good a loss, and then I recover. But you can see the bottom of each trough is getting lower and lower. So based on that pattern, I would be really happy next week if I got a 0.7 kg loss or better. Although it is my definite preference to continue enjoying losses over 1 kg.

Anyway, here's what I hope to achieve over the coming month:

Get into the 140s

End phase II/Start phase III

Be down a full 10 points in my BMI since my start weight

Hit 145 kg.

Weigh-in 16

Start weight: 178.8 kg (394.2 lbs)
Last week's weight: 153.7 kg (338.9 lbs)
Current weight: 151.7 kg (334.4 lbs)
Loss this week: 2 kg (4.4 lbs)
Overall loss: 27.1 kg (59.7 lbs)
Start BMI: 56.4
Last week's BMI: 48.5
Current BMI: 47.9

Outstanding. Last week I was moaning and groaning about losing just half a kilo. This week I have lost four times that amount. This is such a fillip to my confidence and attitude. Everything had been so hum-drum and I felt I was approaching my weight in a workmanlike way. Maybe, just maybe, in one week I'll say goodbye to the 150s. It'll probably take two, but it's in my sights. Also I'm 2.9 kilograms away from the completion of Phase II by hitting a 30 kg loss at 148.8. I can feel it, it is so close. 

Weigh in 15

Start weight: 178.8 kg (394.2 lbs)
Last week's weight: 154.2 kg (340 lbs)
Current weight: 153.7 kg (338.9 lbs)
Loss this week: 0.5 kg (1.1 lbs)
Overall loss: 25.1 kg (55.3 lbs)
Start BMI: 56.4
Last week's BMI: 48.7
Current BMI: 48.5

I know I should be happy. I've been declaring milestones every couple of weeks, but to achieve 25 kg is quite a big deal. But achieving a half kilo loss this week is a bit of a disappointment. And I know why. I've lost focus this week and been undisciplined. It started last Sunday when my parents visited and my mother left half a dozen pikelets here. I scoffed those down. There was also the iced bun I had on Monday. It was weakness and I knew it was weakness as I bought the damned thing. By Thursday I was posting a weight gain. Fortunately I clawed back those gains, but it's an inauspicious way to make it to this mark.

I must redouble my vigilance in this regard.

That said, there is one other milestone. My body fat has crept down to 49.8%. I am now more man than fat.

Weigh in 14

Another week, another weigh-in

Start weight: 178.8 kg (394.2 lbs)
Last week's weight: 155.9 kg (343.7 lbs)
Current weight: 154.2 kg (340 lbs)
Loss this week: 1.7 kg (3.7 lbs)
Overall loss: 24.6 kg (54.2 lbs)
Start BMI: 56.4
Last week's BMI: 49.2
Current BMI: 48.7

So I'm inching closer to the 25 kg milestone. I'm hoping I'll reach it next week.


 

Weigh in 13

...aka The one where I haven't blogged all week.

I can assure you that even though it's Easter, I have not fallen off the wagon. I did allow myself one tiny Easter egg yesterday, but aside from that no chocolate has passed my lips. I did, however, return to form on the scales this morning.

Start weight: 178.8 kg (394.2 lbs)
Last week's weight: 157.4 kg (347 lbs)
Current weight: 155.9 kg (343.7 lbs)
Loss this week: 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs)
Overall loss: 22.9 kg (50.5 lbs)
Start BMI: 56.4
Last week's BMI: 49.7
Current BMI: 49.2







So that means I have broken through the 50 pound milestone. Which is amazing and cause for some celebration. Not only that, I am more than halfway through Phase II, with 7.1 kg to go to reach 30 kilograms and 2.1 kg to reach the 25 kg milestone.

Success builds on success.

My first weigh in of the month, on the third, I was 161.8 kg. That means I have lost 5.9 kg this month. This is particularly pleasing since last week returned results below 1 kg. 

It's now a quarter of the way through the year. Perseverance pays off.  

 

Weigh in 12 - minor disappointment

Start weight: 178.8 kg (394.2 lbs)
Last week's weight: 158.2 kg (348.8 lbs)
Current weight: 157.4 kg (347 lbs)
Loss this week: 0.8 kg (1.8 lbs)
Overall loss: 21.4 kg (47.2 lbs)
Start BMI: 56.4
Last week's BMI: 49.9
Current BMI: 49.7

So for the first time in this whole journey, my weight loss is below 1 kg for the week. I'm not very happy about that. However, that is no reason to give up or give in. Rome wasn't built in a day. Slow and steady wins the race. And other proverbs that may help.

Profile shot 12 - late edition

OK, I missed my normal posting yesterday, but I did take the photos at the normal time.