This morning’s weigh-in was 239.0, which is 0.4 pounds down from last week. This week has been really weird weight-wise. If it hadn’t been for the weird mid-week readings I’d have assumed that maybe this was a bit of a slow-down. I knew mid week that I was likely retaining water, so stepped on the scale to find I was 3 pounds up from Sunday. Thursday was worse as I was up about 4 pounds. I’m actually a little surprised that I ended up down at all. Since I haven’t changed food, exercise, water intake, etc. I’m assuming it was the heat that did it. Anyway the 9-week loss is 20.4lbs (2.27/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 61 on plan with food.

The next couple of weeks will show high losses per week as I drop the spike off the graph. In a way they should be ignored as much as the gain weeks. With that thinking it will be about 2 weeks before all is back to normal. I did briefly see 233.6 at the end of March, so seriously, no congratulations until then!

Next week’s plan is:

Continue 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 July 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. I may take a maintenance week for week 9 of NROL. That would be after next Sunday. It’s supposed to be a full rest week (no weights, no intervals). I’ll likely keep up the morning walks though.

And the 9-week graph…