RttW Report, week 6 -- DELAYED!

[merlinofchaos]

Monday morning I crawl my ass out of bed and step on the scale and start to panic -- I've gained a pound! "No way," I thought. I was a bit bad over the weekend (mm bacon cheese fries, mmm creamy dill mashed potatoes with salmon) but I had the flex points available.

Now, weight can fluctuate for a lot of reasons, primarily water. I reasoned that perhaps I was up a bit for transitory reasons, and that if I skipped the weigh in day I would come in at a more expected weight the next day. Rationally I figured this would be true, but it didn't stop me from feeling mildly panicy that I'd screwed up a bit.

Sure enough, Tuesday came around and the weigh-in showed -1 lb. A 2 pound difference just based on the day. But Tuesday I had to drive up to Orcland for work, so I didn't make the weigh in official that morning and by that evening I'd forgotten to do it. Lunch that day was this gargantuan turkey burger which I tried to eat just enough of. It was delicious and smothered with melted cheddar cheese, but I managed to hold myself to eating a reasonable amount. I think I did ok. And I was also good for dinner to make up for the full fat starbucks I'd had that morning.

Today I weigh in and it's -2.6 pounds. Now, last night I had one of those colon cleaning trips to the bathroom where the neverending story becomes a little surprising (enough so that I remarked about it to esmerel. So I suspect this is another one of those fluctuations that are on the low end.

On the other hand, I also had .5 pounds to make up to be back 'on schedule', and since I didn't record my weigh-in yesterday, I decided to take today's. I'll probably pay for it a bit on the next weigh-in and that's ok too. I'd say I'll try to be good today, but I'm suspending the diet for dinner this evening, because it's Valentine's day.

RttW week 6 loss: 2.6 total: 9.6 lb (1.6 lb per week).

Comments

[senatorhatty.livejournal.com]

Now, last night I had one of those colon cleaning trips to the bathroom where the neverending story becomes a little surprising (enough so that I remarked about it to [info]esmerel.)

Laugh! I fricking love LJ!

[hzatz.livejournal.com]

Have you ever looked at The Hacker's Diet "Eat Watch" software? It's a Palm OS App that I've been using for years. Basically, you enter your weight every day, and it does a statistical weighted average thingamabob that smooths out the bumps. It's also fun for looking at the long-term graphs.

[merlinofchaos]

Yes, I used to use it, but I no longer own a palm, and I'm using weight watchers' website which just does a single weekly weigh-in. I didn't find the moving average that eatwatch used to actually be all that effective, since a moving average is pretty laggy.