Weekly Weigh In 9: Duck Egg 2 - The Revenge of Howard

Weight after eight weeks of dieting:


22stones 12lbs/320lbs/145kg

Loss:

0lbs/0kg


Honestly, it could be a lot worse. Last week's 22 stone 12 was not the lowest of the week but it was a little lower than I was expecting at that time. It was also one of the two lowest for that week. So I guess in reality it was just a blip that happened to fall on a weigh in day. I was somewhat concerned that I might be in the unfortunate position of recording a slight gain as yesterday's weigh in pegged me at 23 1. So over the course of today my weight has sunk by a full three pounds. I'm hoping to see the first quarter of 22 disappear this week and I'm hoping that next week I might be able to log in something like 22 10 or lower. I guess we shall have to wait and see.

Weekly Weigh in 5: Duck Egg?

Weight after four weeks of dieting:


23stones 11lbs/333lbs/151kg

Loss:

0lbs/0kg


Obviously this looks like a bit of a rubbish result as I've been maintaining the diet in its usual mode and haven't suddenly made a dash for a BK bacon double cheese or anything. There are, however, two things that I believe have affected this result.

1. I ate lunch quite late due to the car being in for its MOT
2. My weight loss seems to take a swing pattern of down, down lots, up lots, up a bit, back down, down, down lots, up lots, up a bit, back down etc. Sort of a swirly spiral pattern. Last Saturday you happened to catch me on a down lots day and the following two days saw me scale back up to 24 briefly before sinking to 23 8 on Thursday this week and now I am due an up a bit day after being up lots yesterday from 23 8 to 23 10. So I expect we're just seeing the back end of 23 11 before I sink to the milestone weight south of 23 7 at some point in the coming week.

So I'm not really disheartened by this. It would be nice to lose convincingly every Saturday but some people's bodies just don't work like that.

Weekly Goals

Obviously I now have the goal of being back here next Saturday with a tangible loss, which should be a foregone conclusion if I am right about the weight swing phenomenon. I would like to be furthering my adventures with salad. I wanted to try out the company gym for size last week and it never happened, it would be good if I could look into that this week. Aside from that I am expecting to record one step at my weight milestone of 23 7 or below this week. So that's plenty to be going on with.

No diet report today because of having the car MOTed but I will endeavour to write it up tomorrow and if there is good news at the weigh in I shall possibly indicate that this has happened because I imagine if you have been following the diet you find this weekly weight report slightly disappointing.