Here are today’s numbers:
Starting
Weight:
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257.2
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Original
Target*:
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273.8
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Adjusted
Target:
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255.4
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Actual
Weight:
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256.4
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Loss/Gain:
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– 0.8
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Total
Loss:
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46.2
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%
of Goal:
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33.3%
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Avg.
Loss/Wk.:
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– 2.9
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*Original
target calculated from a starting weight of 302.6 lbs. and an average loss/wk. of 1.8 lbs.
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This last week is hard to describe. There wasn’t a day since
Tuesday that I went over-budget; yet on Wednesday, my weight shot up a
discouraging 2.6 pounds, wrecking my effort to achieve the May challenge goal
of 3% loss.
I’m almost certain that much of the fluctuation depends on how
much sleep I’ve gotten when I weigh in, as well as the vagaries of estimating
some portions and the calories I’ve consumed. For instance, yesterday I got up
at 3:30 am to pick my cousin up from DFW International Airport, so I weighed in
shortly thereafter. After taking him to Gainesville, a 1½-hour trip with a
45-minute stop at Cracker Barrel for a 500-calorie breakfast, having consumed
my normal travel mug full of coffee (with a little extra at Cracker Barrel), I
weighed again for the heck of it when I got back home. The scale told me I had
neither lost nor gained anything. I should have expected at least a fractional
difference because I was wearing street clothes rather than pajamas. Weird.
(How do you get a 500-calorie breakfast at Cracker Barrel,
where carbs and fat abound? Simple: A side of two eggs — I prefer “over medium”
— and a side of their Loaded Hashbrown Casserole. A lot of their breakfast
entrees are under 550 calories, so long as you don’t get “All the Fixin’s.”)
