This was a bit of a tough week. I overate on Wednesday, which is the worst day to do so, because then I spend the rest of the time making up for it. I pulled off a half pound deficit. If I'd had a good Wednesday, it might have been a pound. Ah well. Overall I'm proud that I didn't let a bad day pull me off track for more days.
This week's weigh-in:
| Start | 6/8 | 8/19 | 9/30 | 10/29 | 12/31 | 1/28 | 2/11 | 2/18 | 2/25 | 3/4 | 3/10 | |
| Weight | 200 | 191.2 | 182.6 | 181 | 181.4 | 177.2 | 174.6 | 174.2 | 178 | 177 | 175 | 173.6 |
| Lbs. Fat | 82.7 | 72.5 | 70.3 | 70.8 | 67.1 | 65.3 | 64.7 | 67.4 | 66.5 | 64.6 | 65.1 | |
| Lbs. Muscle | 67.3 | 66.8 | 65.2 | 67.3 | 63.9 | 64.4 | 63.5 | 64.2 | 68.2 | 64.1 | 66.2 |
Yay! A new low, as I've haven't seen 173-point-anything on the scale since the last time I was losing weight. The other amazing thing is that my muscle weight is higher than my actual weight. That happened on 2/25, which you can see on the above chart, but I took that one with a grain of salt because the muscle count was unusually high.
But now, look at this week! Fully a pound more muscle. I know it should be more like I have half as much fat as muscle, but this is a huge, amazing shift and I'm counting it as a milestone.
Speaking of shoulds, I keep a kind of tally of what I "should" weight versus what I actually weigh, based on calories eaten and burned. "Should" is in quotes because none of my measurements are infallible - I have to estimate a few foods a week, and hell, nutrition labels are allowed to be off by a certain percentage. I'm also estimating how many calories I burn per day.
With those disclaimers, here's what the math says: I "should" weigh 169 pounds. Bottom line, I "should" be in the 160s already. But try telling my body and the scale that.
I'm feeling good about the upcoming week. It's so much slower than I'd like, but I'm heading in the right direction.
I don't care that it's a tired topic, I am SO happy that spring is coming around! Who's with me?
Do you have "should" and "actual" for anything in your life?
Hey ham,
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to give you a high five and congrats on the weight loss. Don't worry about "should" - if you keep doing what you're doing, you'll get there. :)
Hey back, fellow ham!
DeleteThanks for the encouragement - I'm definitely trying to stop shoulding, as Carrie Bradshaw liked to say, and trying to remind myself that bodies are more complicated than Excel charts, no matter how fancy the charts are.
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