Weigh in 10/20
Here we are another week gone by. The Oct OS is ramping up and we are less that 2 weeks from the Nov OS.
So what did the scale say this morning? For me I got back one of the two that I gained last week -1 to 229. It was nothing to write home about but it feels better than posting a gain.
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Well done Gordon, 1 week is a good thing. Now if we could all do that all year.... I was +1 last week, but basically maintained this week, my octoberfest is almost out of the frig!
I was doomed by a Paula Deen poundcake w/ ice cream so I was +0.2...thought it would be worse.
Mmmmmmmmmm, poundcake!
Down 1.5# this week. It's kind of funny recording this on Wed since I watch Biggest Loser with the fiancee on Tue nights, so having "only" a one-and-a-half pound loss seems so unsuccessful after watching that show!
Have to remind myself that I'm living in the real world and not some 24/7 workout haven; and that I'm not morbidly obese so dropping 10#/week is just unrealistic. However even with all that said, and reminding myself that a loss is a loss and that's a good thing, I AM a little disappointed that I'm not hitting the 2#/week goal. I'm using LoseIt religiously, and the last 3 weeks have all been under for the weekly total - with the goal set at losing 2#/week and I even added an additional 100 kcal/day restriction, so in theory I should be losing 2.20#/week. I wasn't expecting to have to play with 'nutrient timing' until I got closer to my goal weight and things became more difficult, but I'm wondering if maybe it's not quite as simple as 'calories in, calories out'.
Not trying to be a whiner or dismiss the fact that I am losing weight, just trying to figure out why I'm not losing what, mathmatically, I should be losing on a weekly basis.
Ugh, up 2# this week, but not a big shocker. I will blame it on Steve Ford's ribs and chocolate cake with the 1" frosting at the NE rally. This accountability thing is good, very good for me.
I watched Biggest Loser too, Tony - that guy totally threw it losing just 2#!! You coulda been a contender last night!
I was 133 during the week leading up to my race, but 135 on race morning (exactly my goal) and 137 at the registration fully dressed. After a week of vacation I was 146 :-)
I'm three days back into working out and eating decent (not counting calories yet) and down to 143 as of this morning.
I'm taking another week "off" and then will start getting a little more serious.
I'm going to try and race lighter again next year and get down to 132 if I can hold that weight and still recover during IM training. This means my training wieght goal is around 137 this year.
Not to hijack this thread (maybe we should start a BL thread in the Club House), but absolutely correct! No way does a guy that big, doing anything healthy for 7 days only lose 2#. If the producers cared more about fairness than drama, they'd make it so that the two players with the lowest % weight loss on the losing team were the ones up for elimination, that would stop all this water-loading, throwing weigh-in crap.
The accountability thing is huge for me too. I've actually got three accountability things going now. I've got the EN weekly weigh-in's on Wednesday, I've got the LoseIt App friends thing going, and my fiancee and I are having an in-house BL competition with weigh-in's on Sundays. Attack the problem with multiple allies right!
Just got back from running my workplace's semi-annual 10k. Had a good time and did pretty decent at it, which I credit entirely with weight loss at this point since I haven't been doing any speed work since the summer, and probably won't until I start the OS in January. So if nothing else that's further reinforcement that weight loss (body comp) is a good thing and I should stay focused especially with the Unholy Trinity of Holidays (UTH) coming up!
on the way back down the ladder... can't remember where I was last week, I think around the 133-4 range (shudder)... but I'm at 130.4 today....still slightly up from my norm (128ish) and about 4-5 (125-26) up from what I thought was my race weight with just over 2 weeks to go. I'm trying to watch myself like a hawk as far as what goes in this next few weeks as volume is on a downward trend.