This morning’s weigh-in was 234.6, which is 0.4 pounds down from last week. The 9-week loss is 11.2lbs (1.24/week) which is usually the ‘number’ I look at to see how things are going overall. The other little compulsive number I look at is how many days I’ve been ‘on plan’ primarily with food. I still consider a maintenance week ‘on plan’ since I accomplished what I wanted to. So this is day 37 on plan with food.

So this week was disappointing, but still kind of on plan. I’m fighting off the spring flu (which everyone around me seems to have), and so on Wednesday night I decided to add some extra food to the daily intake. I decided not to do it in the usual ‘maintenance week - eat what I want’. I added more protein in the form of a shake, a little extra meat at lunch, and a hot toddy or two at night to stop the coughing (which is minor and only seems to bother me at night). So, while all the guys at school are basically dead, I’m not feeling that bad. I’ll keep up the extra food until Tuesday (my last test) and then I think Thursday it’s back to my lifting routine.

The interesting point was that avoiding the typically lower percentage of protein that I end up with on maintenance weeks, my weight didn’t really shift much. I’m about a pound heavier than my lightest during the week and that still leaves me lighter than last Sunday. So, overall I’m pretty happy about that. I don’t think the chart adds much this week, but here it is: