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Weekly weigh in - Fridays

This week's average is 87.2kg (last week's 90.3kg, a difference of -2.9kg). Downward trend accelerating.

Today's weigh-in 87.6kg (last Friday's 89.9kg., -1.3kg).

Current target 80kg. 7.6kg to go from today.

Haven't focused on anything else apart from cutting out carbs to 20-30g a day and doing intermittent fasting with one to two meals a day. Did stop a few meds over the last couple of weeks, and it seems like that might have boosted my progress.
 
Look away now if you don't want to be startled...

Up 6. Yes 6. We were away for a couple of days. Despite a lot of walking, no snacking I didn't do well in other respects.

Meals were very salty, to the point of us talking to the manager. We went back the next night and asked for unseasoned food. Much better.

So, water, portions and no snacking should help for next week.
 
I'm overweight (my own fault) and in January got a HBA1c of over just 60.
I'm a type 2 hyper glycemic i.e. my blood sugar goes up rather than down controlled by Metformin.
I was advised by the nurse to go on a low carb diet.

Since then I have largely cut out carbs other than low sugar breakfast cereal e.g. Eat Natural or Lizi's (both also low GI) and two thin slices of a small good quality wholemeal loaf per day. In 10 weeks I've lost 16lbs.

My blood sugar stayed quite high until I'd lost about 12lbs and then suddenly came down. The suggestion being from one of my diabetic friends that my body was reacting to the sudden change in diet and upping my blood sugar to compensate.

Due for another blood test in a couple of weeks so we'll see what the change is.

ETA that I did try the 5:2 but this didn't work for me, partly because of my work pattern and I found that I put weight back on quickly as soon as stopping. I also found the 800kcal days difficult. Currently I'm eating about 1500-1600 kcal/day and find it much easier to stick to this.
 
Sorry about your small gain, @filly . It is very frustrating for you, I can imagine!

@TheSecretCarbAddict well done on that downward trend, you are doing great. Your approach is very similar to mine and seems to work really well.

Gosh @May Mic that must be water weight due to the salt, it will be so interesting to see what the scales have to say on Friday!

Did you manage to weigh @MissMuffett ?

Hi @Expresso well done on that great weight loss over the last 10 weeks, that will help your HBa1c go down when you are next tested, it really helped mine. Let us know how you get on.

Keep going everyone - bikini weather is nearly upon us (that goes for the women too)!
 
This week's average is 86.6kg (last week's 87.2kg, a difference of -0.6kg). Downward trend has slowed by as much as it accelerated last week. But as long as it continues to go down, I'll take it.

Today's weigh-in 86.7kg (last Friday's 87.6kg., -0.9kg).

Current target 80kg. 6.7kg to go from today.
 
I lost 2lbs this week, which means I am no longer obese and my BMI is now in the 20s! :happy: I am really happy with that, just got to get out of the overweight category now, but I have a feeling that will take a bit longer.

Well done on your pound off this week @filly - it is great to see the scales move in the right direction.

That is still a good loss @TheSecretCarbAddict - you have had some good losses over the past several weeks, so overall, you have done brilliantly.

Yay, @MissMuffett - I got my scales out ready last night too. Mind you, that meant I tripped on them when I nipped to the toilet in the night :oops: . Great loss this week - woohoo!
 
Down 4.6. As I suspected a lot of it was water weight from very salty restaurant meals. I'm a salt-a-holic and it was almost too salty for me! That and extra water to flush it out helped a lot. So back to my " normal" weight and downwards from here.

Leafyarts, congrats on the lowered BMI!

Miss Muffet - good loss! So you and I are in the same situation.

Filly, good loss. Any downward is great.

SecretCarb, as above, down is good.
 
Happy Friday!

This week's average is 84.9kg (last week's 86.6kg, a difference of -1.7kg). Looks like the weight loss has shifted gain. One major change made this week to help me stabilise BG after coming off a few diabetes meds was to start alternate-day fasting alongside 18:6 intermittent fasting on the days I eat. I even managed to express this as a recurrent schedule in my food tracking app - I fast from 18:30 to 12:30 day after next every 2 days. :)

Today's weigh-in 83.8kg (last Friday's 86.7kg., -2.9kg). Current target 80kg. 3.8kg to go from today.

Am I allowed to shout about another milestone I have achieved? I've been obese since my early childhood, maybe straying into overweight category on a good day, but I've never had what's considered a healthy BMI. Well, this week I have!
 
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