Weigh in

 One pound down this week.

Weigh in

1 lb down last week, 1 lb down this week.

Hooray. 

Small victory

Through some peculiar magic, I've broken through another plateau - as of this morning I'm at my lowest weight of this current effort.

Daily weigh-ins had been either stagnant or fluctuating up and down a few lbs for weeks now. Didn't do anything special yesterday - step count yesterday sucked,  had too many calories on Sunday, and my sleep is the worst its been in months.

Haven't been doing fasted cardio. I've hit 20k steps in a day maybe 3 times since my injury. 

No idea what the key might have been. I've been consistently putting an effort every day, even if I don't reach my pre-injury targets. So maybe I just needed to be patient and grind through it?

Don't know, and honestly don't care. I'm more interested to see if this holds, or if I spring back to my previous stucking point in the coming days.

We shall see.

Weekly weigh in

1 lb down.

No comment.

Slow going

Not been the best week, but I'm leaning on my discipline to show up every day and put an effort in. That effort seems decidedly less hard-core than at times in the previous months, but its still there.

I may be in a funk. But Im still making progress, albeit slower progress.

I feel like I need a jump-start.

Reassessing

I've taken a few deep breaths, and have had time to reflect on my emotions from earlier. Mentally, I'm in a better place now.

Since 2023, I've been using a program that my work insurance pays the subscription for. It's a nice tool; I use it for some of my goal tracking, progress planning, etc. It even came with a smart scale so that I dont have to manually enter my metrics. And even though I have my own exercise and eating plans and I don't need/use theirs, it's quite nice to have access to expert-level references and guidance on all things health and fitness.

Until now, I've not had anything even remotely approaching this level of success since I've been on this app. My previous weight loss goals that it helped me outline were never close to being met. So, when I made my mind up this past May that I was going to seriously commit to getting fitter, one of my first moves was to get a projection from the app on what a healthy rate of weight loss would be, considering my age, current weight, etc. I set a 4 month goal, added weekly goals to my calendar, and began meticulously going about formulating my plan of attack.

Last week I hit my 4 month goal, a few days ahead of schedule even. This morning, I set a new 4 month goal; just like the last one, I used their automation tool to descern what the upper limit would be for it to still be deemed healthy and sustainable.

As it stands, I'm right on track. Even a smidgen ahead of schedule.

In hindsight, I didn't consider that my projected rate of fat loss would diminish as my weight continued to go down. And that's just plain stupid, because I know better, having gone through periods of extreme fat loss multiple times. These last few weeks, when my body has very clearly been fighting me, I was hard on myself to a fault. I wasn't paying close enough attention to realize that it was a natural response, and that my decelerated weight loss was to become expected, given my reduced body mass.

2 lbs a week is slightly better than what I should be doing. I'm not failing. I just need to make some diet adjustments so that I'm less suceptible to make the errors that I've been making, which were likely attributable to my needs changing.

But, even with those errors, I haven't lost ground - I just lacked the proper perspective to see that this is where I'm supposed to be right now.

Having said that... I still have a lot of work to do. And I do need to have fewer screwups going forward, because this ain't getting any easier.

I'm gonna go fix a bunch of calendar entries now.

Weekly weigh in

2 lbs down.

I was weak, and ate like an undisciplined asshole on multiple occasions this week.

Weak behavior. No excuses - I am trying to sabatoge this whole damn thing.

Falling short is getting too damn comfortable. Gotta fix some stuff asap before this gains momentum.