Something weird happened this morning. I forgot to weigh myself. I’ve been trying to get away from the daily weigh-ins, since they really don’t show me how I’m doing (they often bounce around too much to really help). I got so out of the habit in only one week that I’d finished my breakfast and the morning liter of water before I thought about it. So I weighed myself at that point and decided to subtract 3lbs from the total (wasn’t entirely disposed to getting naked, 2.2lbs for the water, and the rest for the breakfast).

So, this morning’s guess at a weigh-in was 242.6, which is 1.4 pounds down from last week. The 9-week gain, however, is 1.8lbs (.20/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 40 on plan with food.

Assuming that things go well next week I should definitely be in a loss over the 9-week period, although still a ways away from the lowest weight seen. I did briefly see 233.6 at the end of March, so seriously, no congratulations until then!

Next week’s plan is:

Start Fat Loss II phase of New Rules of Lifting, 3 days a week. 30-45 min walks 5 days a week (with my mother), aiming for 45 mins on non-lifting days. For June I’ll likely continue at the same food levels - 2000 on non-workout days and 2250-2300 on lifting days and see how that goes.

And the 9-week graph…