I am suspicious of my Scale 258-261, 259 it is.

Wacky scale says 258 but I am clocking in at 259 this week.

My postings have become a little less frequent as of late. I need to turn that around for no one other than my own personal gain (in the form of weight loss of course). For the few of you that may be using this blog to inspire yourself as I was inspired by another weight loss success story's blog, thanks for being patient with me.

I am starting to wonder about my scale, like any scale, it is not 100.000% correct. Obviously, I have lost about 10 pounds from the start of this weight loss project. Not bad, that averages out to a little under 2.5 pounds a week. Considering my goal is 1.4 pounds a week, I am ahead of the schedule, but that by no means I can start slacking. This is where the rubber hits the road, metaphorically speaking. My home scale is something I am learning how to game. Certainly if I lean a little to the left and put more weight on my heal, I can make it read lower. But that is not my goal. The accuracy, helps me understand the reality of my true weight loss that week.

For sure I can not game this scale for 10 pounds, I have lost that weight. The pants that I couldn't wear a month ago, now fit again. That, my friend, you can lean one way or the other on a scale all day long and it won't affect how those pants fit!

The day before I weighed myself and it read 258, then it read 261 then a bunch in between. I did weigh 258 yesterday and I didn't eat or drink anything in the meantime, so how the heck did I gain 3 pounds? I try to use the exact same regiment when I do my official Sunday morning weigh ins. I get up, don't eat or drink anything, and get on the scale. I put my right foot big toe in exactly the same spot, try not to lean and stand perfectly still for about 5-10 seconds before I look down. I do weight myself several times and try to get the average. This says 258 but I am really thinking it is 259. How do I know? I just know.

We'll see next week

"Onesville"

Not too much time today

I was a little worried about the weigh in this week, but made my goal. The weight loss is slowing down after the first couple of weeks.

Sweatin' it, but I actually made it plus some.

Alright! This was a good week. I followed my diet, had a few days where I wasn't super strict. One night a friend of mine came over and we had a few beers (not in my diet plan) and then having had a few I was hungry at about midnight and had about another 1000 calories more food. I would not have done that otherwise. So the next day, I showed it on the scale.

I was sweating that I wasn't going to make my "at least 1.4 pounds per a week goal... at minimum" goal. But here it is Sunday morning at weigh in and I lost 2.0 pounds. Whew!

It feels good to make the weight and to be able to bank an extra .6 pounds.

I have set up a spread sheet to keep track of my weight, and my advances.

I'll post them at the top of the weigh in dates, possibly post them by themselves, that way I can just pull up the results by using the Labels mode of blogger.

Well, I posted a screen shot, and it looks good enough, not great, can't see it unless you have 20/20 vision, but it is there for posterity. Plus I have it on my computer anyway.

See you at 260.6 (260.5 because my bathroom scale only measures in .5 pound increments.) Next Sunday, if not before.

Very Best,

"Onesville"

Who-hoo 264!

Working hard at keeping it off and figuring out that I need to be at a deficit of 700 K/cals per day to make my weight. I know that the beginning is going to be easier and there will be plateaus so I am trying to keep the accelerated weight loss going for now.

I also have been keeping a detailed, but very simple system of keeping track of my daily caloric intake. I put them on post-it notes and as soon as I eat, I write it down and estimate my calories taken in. It does two things at least.

I have cut down my intake from about 3200 calories a day to about 1800, just by being mindful of what is going in my mouth. It has helped my focus on not just putting food in my mouth if I am even the slightest bit hungry.

Start Weight: 270.0 lbs.
Last weeks Weight: 270.0
Today's goal Weight 267.2
Today: 264.0
Lost last week: -3.0 lbs.
Total lost: -6 lbs.

Ahead of schedule -3.2 lbs

Eeee-gads, double whammy today.

Well, about two days ago, the little lithium battery in my bathroom scale went dead, so I have not had a scale in a few days. I have been good on the food and at the very moment I know I am hungry and let's just say the water table is low. In other words when I put the new battery in the scale I was expecting that I should be around 266 or possibly 265 if I was lucky. I guess I wasn't lucky, the new, fully charged scale says that I weigh about 268, not that much of a gain, but a gain all the same. I don't really want to weigh in so to speak until Sunday, but you know about curiosity and the cat.

So, earlier today, I found an interesting plug in to do a countdown to Easter 2010. I couldn't remember the exact day so I looked it up, it turns out it is April 4th, 2010, not April 12th, 2010, about a week earlier, so I have a little less time to lose the weight.

I know this seems trivial, and it is but hey, I was moving along well, and these two speed bumps show up. Not to worry (as if you would be worrying... ) I just have to recalculate the spread.

Turns out that I now need to keep the pace of almost exactly 1.4 pounds per a week. I can do this. No, I will do this.

That works out to having a calorie deficiency of (-3500*1.4lbs)/7 days= -700 Cal/day

Totally doable with a fairly good diet and either walking, biking or swimming on most days.

Here I come 199!

Very Best,

"Onesville"

A Picture is worth a thousand words

A picture is worth a thousand words. 267.5 Pounds