The First Weight Update
Published January 21, 2011
Initially I thought it would be a smart idea to update this blog near daily with weight loss progress updates. The thing is, daily progress is frustratingly slow.
I figured that at the beginning it's not a bad idea to have a little breathing room to get into my stride. Though I've never typically had problems starting a weight loss program. It's sticking to it that proves tricky.
And so here we are, nearly two weeks into my latest weight loss endeavour - time for an update.
It's already getting harder to avoid "slippage".
Traditionally it's weekdays where I have the most problems with hunger, I've been known to go a whole weekend with only one meal. Sitting at my desk in the office, every 15 minutes I'm thinking about food. This is not good. So to combat this I've taken to using my fitness pal to record everything I eat on weekdays. Allowing myself 1600 calories, which should allow me to lose 1 pound every week. Which should see me easily meeting my target of 16 stone by the end of 2011.
Don't get me wrong, I've gone over 1600 calories once or twice - but now I'm acutely aware of when that's happening and it's making me think a little more about what it is I'm eating - or rather, how much it is I'm eating.
That site also allows you to track your weight, but I'm actually putting my weight into three different sites every single weekday. my fitness pal, skinnyo and one I wrote myself. This is completely redundant of course, but having to put it into those three makes it a little bit more of a morning ritual and reminds me to do it. This in turn reminds me to watch what I'm eating for that day. It only takes a minute to update all those sites (if that).
Since I started tracking my weight (so January 5th 2011) I've managed to lose 4.5 pounds. This is far above the 2 pounds I needed to lose so far. I'm actually a little disappointed, as in this first few weeks I should lose quite a lot as my intake has changed dramatically. I need to give it the first month really, to see how's it's going - but I am frustrated by this. I was hoping to be under 19 stone by the end of January - which with a bit of effort is still possible, but it will be close.
As you can see from the graph below, I've actually been stuck on the same weight for 4 days now, which is incredibly frustrating. I'm rather hoping tomorrow will have some better news, but thanks to the free pizza at this months NWRUG I'm really just hoping it's not gone up. I did avoid beer though, that was hard.
