The Numbers: I weighed in this morning at 409.6 LBS. That is 4.0 lb. down from last week, and 21.8 lbs.lost overall. Also of note is that I lost 17.2 pounds just over the month of April. But wait...there's more. I have reached a weight loss of just over 5% of my starting weight. Pretty cool, huh?
Thoughts: I am very surprised by this weigh-in. I had prepared myself to be disappointed because I lost track of tracking my food for a few days this week and I think ate more than usual during those days. I was expecting less than a pound, or maybe even a weight gain.
It just goes to show how arbitrary the weigh-in schedule is. Just because I picked Friday as the day I was going to weigh-in each week, doesn't mean my body is going to treat Friday any differently. It just goes on about its business. I did a lot of hiking two weeks ago in California, some of it even strenuous hiking (for me). I was hoping that last Friday would show the results of that effort, but it was only one pound. My body didn't know that there was a deadline. I'm not seeing the results of that effort until this week, a week I thought was going to go badly. Hopefully I can stem the tide of that so that I don't see negative results next week.
But the point is that my body is always going through its process and I just need to keep that process geared toward losing weight. The tick marks I make each week on the scale are important to track so that I know I am making progress, but I should not fret over each and every weigh-in. I know some people weigh themselves every day, and I think that would drive me crazy. Once a week is fine.
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