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PNJB

PNJB

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Another pleasing way of reporting your overall weight loss is do so in % body weight loss. I worked out I am 11.4 % lighter than when I started on 15th May. To calculate yours, follow these steps:

1 From your ORIGINAL weight in lbs, subtract your CURRENT weight in lbs

2 Divide the result by your CURRENT weight in lbs

3 Multiply the new result by 100

This figure is your % body weight lost

Hope this is helpful to you determined and motivated folk out there!
 
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It's a great motivator to see your percentage weight loss - hope you don't mind me saying @PNJB but there is a vital part missing from the end of your calculation

3) multiply the new result by 100 THEN divide the result by your starting to weight this gives you your percentage

Hope you don't mind me correcting it

Mine is just under 44% - I lost a whole person omg! I don't know wether to be chuffed or embarrassed:oops:
 
lovinglife said:
It's a great motivator to see your percentage weight loss - hope you don't mind me saying @PNJB but there is a vital part missing from the end of your calculation

3) multiply the new result by 100 THEN divide the result by your starting to weight this gives you your percentage

Hope you don't mind me correcting it

Mine is just under 44% - I lost a whole person omg! I don't know wether to be chuffed or embarrassed:oops:
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ooops! I accidently deleted line 2, so you are correct! I will edit it in to the original . Many Thanks!
 
lovinglife said:
It's a great motivator to see your percentage weight loss - hope you don't mind me saying @PNJB but there is a vital part missing from the end of your calculation

3) multiply the new result by 100 THEN divide the result by your starting to weight this gives you your percentage

Hope you don't mind me correcting it

Mine is just under 44% - I lost a whole person omg! I don't know wether to be chuffed or embarrassed:oops:
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Be chuffed! Be chuffed! What a superb achievement!
 
I weigh myself regularly, in Kg, then record it on a spreadsheet. Then comes the monthly average which consequently gets plotted on a chart.

I haven't calculated the percentage body weight so, having just calculated this (on spreadsheet, of course ;) ) , I've lost 14.66% over the past 10 months. It's very slow but I do struggle with restricting foods ;) so I'm pleased the graph shows a clear downward trend. I still need to lose quite a bit more so it will be interesting to see the body weight % loss alongside the weight loss graph.

Thanks for posting this method, PNJB :)
 
I suspect Energise, that like me, you are a "Details" man, where you need to know an element from every angle!
 
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