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Well, I snacked way too much yesterday, and ended up with a lot of extra carbs, but I was good with the fat and hit my protein target. And I shed some fluids, if you know what I mean.
So I'm down again. Back to where I was 4 days ago. You could look at this as a negative - 4 days without ANY progress. This is how you can make mistakes in your weight loss journey! You can see one or two daily numbers going astray and think you're doing something wrong, or not enough right things, and decide to change it up without really understanding what's going on with your body, or what those numbers mean.
My daily weight is the same today as it was 4 days ago, and during that time, I have a significant calorie deficit - so what gives? Is my scale inaccurate? No. Have I been cheating? If anything, I've been under-reporting activity, and over-reporting food intake - so, no. The answer is that the body is very complex, and it shifts and moves in ways that are hard to predict on a daily basis. But over time, those daily shifts and moves in fluid retention and shedding of waste tend to even out. So that's why I keep a 7-day running average of my weight, and use that instead of my last weigh-in as my primary weight indicator.
A seven-day average is good because it dampens out the noise in your weight graph. I wish FS had an option to display weight in a 7-day average graph. It gives, in my mind, a more accurate picture of your true weight. And it also works for your fat percentage, your waistline, and other measurements you take. It is a small enough sample to catch trends before they become problems (you're still weighing every day), but big enough that you don't get unnecessarily alarmed when you have a bad (or good) day! I might have to make a tool to create 7-day average graphs from the FS weight data... assuming I can get a large enough data set.
Anyway, back to my weight. Four days ago, my 7-day weight average was 187.6, and today it's 186.3. I have a true weight loss of 1.3 pounds in 4 days - I'm doing fine.
(Also, there are other numbers I could have looked at, if I had really been upset about not losing weight for 4 whole days - e.g., my waistline measurement is actually down almost 0.1 inch in that time. Don't put too much stock in 1 number!)
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185.4 lb
Lost so far: 0 lb.
Still to go: 15.4 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 27 November 2013:
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1634 kcal
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Fat: 48.40g | Prot: 101.40g | Carb: 191.50g.
Breakfast: Pace Picante Mild Salsa, Great Value Frozen Whole Kernel Golden Corn, Kroger Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast with Rib Meat, Kroger Break-Free Real Egg Product, Kroger Fancy Shredded Mozzarella Cheese, Great Value Frozen Sweet Peas. Dinner: Hormel Original Pepperoni Slices, Kroger Fancy Shredded Mozzarella Cheese, Papa Murphy's Pizza Cheese Original Crust Pizza (Family). Snacks/Other: Kroger Jelly Beans, Keebler Vanilla Wafers, General Mills Chex Honey Nut Cereal. more...
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3007 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Weight Training (moderate) - 40 minutes, Resting - 5 hours, Sleeping - 5 hours, Desk Work - 7 hours and 50 minutes, Driving - 5 hours and 30 minutes. more...
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losing 5.6 lb a week
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