Weekly weigh in - Fridays

[ravensmitten]

Same as last week, though that's still down 13lb in 2 weeks, going to adjust accordingly.

 

[tanglung]

Just a 1lb lost this week, disappointing.

 

[EllieM]

Just a 1lb lost this week, disappointing.

Slow but sure gets you there, I'd be happy with that.

Think I'm up a bit this week, 73.8kg, after a birthday with too many carbs

(But I really enjoyed them, back on the straight and narrow now)

 

[ravensmitten]

Yeah I maintained this week after losing a fair bit previously at first I thought grumble grumble, but then thought about it a little more and even inertia is better than it going in the other direction.

I get the feeling though, might feel like a lot of hard work at times for seemingly little benefit sometimes, I guess the trick is over time making that hard work feel seamless?

 

[filly]

Well at least didn't put on this week.

219.4 4 ozs down! Think me eating before bed isn't helping

 

[EllieM]

73.2kg, so lost last week's birthday gain.

 

[ravensmitten]

Down 7lb (3.17kg) since last week and 19lb (9kg) in total since going low carb.

24st.8lb/344lbs/156kg now

 

[BobJC]

110.8kg, down 2.5kg
but was diagnosed with COVID on Wednesday and have felt really bad so that probably is a driver. Luckily blood sugar levels don't appear to be impacted.

 

[tanglung]

Just the 1.5 lb off this week

 

[ravensmitten]

Maintained probably due to the midweek blip I had.

 

[filly]

Well, after stalling and not be doing anything different.... 217.7 loss of 1.7lbs

 

[BobJC]

112kg, up 1.2 from last week but that was during a bout of Covid. Still on a downward trend.

 

[tanglung]

1.5 lb off..very slow progress

 

[EllieM]

1.5 lb off..very slow progress

Any progress is good.

Mine is all over the place, 74kg on Friday (ouch) but back to 73.2kg today, I'm having real trouble in believing my scales, there's so much day to day variation.

 

[ravensmitten]

24 stone 6lbs (155.129 kg)

Should be 13.5 stone (86kg) as was that half my adult life.

-2lb (-0.907 kilogram) from last week

Down 22lb in total (9.979 kilograms)

Hell of a way to go and I may never get there but shooting for the moon slowly and surely.

 

[filly]

Well slowed again. Down 1oz! 217.6

 

[lilcricket]

216lbs on the scale this morning which would mean I'm 10lbs down from when I was first diagnosed about a month and a half ago. I don't expect that this rate of weight loss will keep on like this, but it's nice to see what I'm doing right now seems to be working

 

[ravensmitten]

Well slowed again. Down 1oz! 217.6

Feels a bit rubbish doesn’t it, especially if have been eating well and you have a goal in mind. I think it feels like sort of like you should be rewarded for being “good”*

I felt momentarily like that when I maintained last week but this week I’m down 2lb, so trying to treat weight loss as a bonus/side effect of keeping my sugars down as much as I can but still have a goal/hope in mind as regards the loss. Anything small or no movement either way is at least not in the “wrong” direction, but I share the frustration.

Being a bit general and not aiming at yourself as we all have wildly different situations and expectations, just the sentiment of your post I’ve felt before myself.

At least we are examining our behaviours and not going through life on autopilot (which can be helpful for some things but can be dangerous for a lot of others) and doing out best? and that’s all we can do I guess. Think I’d rather be doing that and a bit :/ and then using that feeling to adjust something if I could/needed to than drift through oblivious to it all. I think the saying goes “better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.”

*sometimes I think this feeling is a throwback to the old carrot and stick, and being rewarded for being “good” and punished for being “bad” thing that well meaning people might have used on us as children to make life easier for themselves. The thing is past childhood we don’t always get that reward even when we’ve been on our best behaviour (and might I also mention the converse happens when someone is “bad” not getting punished as we think they should) which sets us up for feeling a bit rubbish when we’ve done our best but we see no reward for it. Good and bad are probably unhelpful words in our minds, quite.

I’ll shut up as I’m rambling now

 

[BobJC]

111.8kg, small decrease week on week but more importantly fat % has decreased more. Very happy.

 

[Flowercity]

Hi Everyone
I have started this thread to continue to measure my weight on a Friday. I do not belong to any weight loss support groups and feel there could be a lot Im missing out on from a support point of view. I measure my weight at the same time every Friday. You are welcome to join this thread with your own loss/challenge weeks.

10/3/16 - 3lb lost total lost to date - 17lbs

congratulations of your weight loss!