Weighing myself on my home scale is always a bit questionable, as it doesn't have the accuracy or precision of the scale at the hospital. That said, I like to weight myself often to get an idea of how I'm doing. Lately, however, the answer has been steadily "not that great." I've figured out that the scale at home is roughly 2 lbs less, of course I'm weighed at the doctored dressed except for shoes.
Today, dressed, I weighed 382 on my scale. I was 387 at the doctor's last week, but this scale is roughly two pounds short. This means I may have only lost 3-4lbs (with rounding) in the last week. On a normal diet, that's still a pretty big accomplishment. On my diet, I should stay higher than that.
I haven't been getting as much exercise I was getting at the beginning of the diet, and I'm afraid that this might be the result. While I've been very resolute in non cheating food wise, I've been saying a lot of things like "well, standing all day while playing warhammer is roughly like 30 minutes of exercise" or "I spent all day walking around a museum," when what I need to get is heart rate increasing, sweat inducing aerobic exercise.
The new goal for this week is to get to the gym every day, and try to pull out of this dip.
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well.... great honesty.... so the same advice you gave me i am confident will work for you. i have increased the intensity of my exercise!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I hit the gym yesterday and worked the ellpitical. I felt a lot better.
ReplyDeleteI am on a bit of a diet now, Steve. You kind of inspired me...I think that is the hardest truth--I always lie to myself about how much I work out...I need to take a walk or run or something. I am really rooting for you, brother!
ReplyDeleteThat's great to hear, gray. The list of people that say they've started watching their diets since I started is really amazing. I still think it's less inspiration and more fear of becoming the fattest person once I lose all my weight, but it's still neat.
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