Starting weight: 186.4 lbs
Last week’s weight: 179.8 lbs
Current weight: 178.6 lbs
Weight loss this week: 1.2 lbs
My weight was so perfectly stable at 179.8 for the whole week that I thought my scale was broken. But then I magically lost 1.2 lbs this morning. Weight loss is weird.
But yeah, not a good week for being healthy, thanks to lots of stress at school, no time to go grocery shopping for healthier food, and womanly issues. Yay hormones!
Though now’s my chance to pull way ahead of JT, while he’s at an atheist conference gobbling up conference food all weekend. Mwahaha!
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Jess Popplewell
January 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Well done Jen, I hope you’re spending enough time congratulating yourself. Even though you’ve had a bad week with stress etc you’ve still achieved a loss. It’s brave to be doing this as a competition, because as you say, weight-loss is weird, so even if you try ridiculously hard it can still sometimes feel a bit useless. So, you’re doing great. There’s also a chance that there’s a similar post floating about somewhere, I lost it… so apologies if my heartfelt sentiments appear twice in slightly different formations!
katalina
January 29, 2011 at 9:51 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
And also against a guy, since we know they can sometimes lose weight in unfairly easy ways! Darn those Y chromosomes!
Aaron Harmon
January 29, 2011 at 10:24 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
2 lbs a week is a good pace
Andrew Hall
January 29, 2011 at 10:36 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Nice. Keep up the good work.
K.W. Ramesy
January 29, 2011 at 11:18 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It happens. When I was losing weight I could have a whole week where I lost nothing, then be down 2-3 pounds or more the next week. Have you been measuring around your waist and chest and hips to see if your body is changing? The weeks I didn’t lose any weight seemed to be the same ones things started fitting better, as if I could either lose weight or size but not both at the same time. Very weird.
K.W. Ramesy
January 29, 2011 at 11:20 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Yup. When I was on my monitored weight loss program I’d tell my family each week what I’d lost. My sister would just look over at me with daggers in her eyes. Friendly, loving daggers of course. :)
Anna Jobsis
January 30, 2011 at 12:04 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
LOL, weight loss is always more interesting to the parties participating. People who’ve never had to deal with weight-loss don’t get it, and people who want to, but can’t/won’t get involved, HATE you for it.
Matthew Frederickson
January 31, 2011 at 1:58 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Do you measure your weight at the same time each day? I’ve noticed that it’s more consistent if you do that. I do it right away in the morning before food or drink can swing it up. You can be +/- 3 pounds or more at a given time of day.Either way, good work! You’ve contributed to me getting off my ass to exercise as well. Good luck, Jen.
Sinned34
February 1, 2011 at 12:34 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Hmm, I lost 5 lbs last week, and all it took was my wife being hospitalized for two days, leaving me alone at home, too stressed out to eat and otherwise incapable of cooking for myself even if I was able to consume food.Ain’t life grand?
J. Mark
February 1, 2011 at 8:47 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I plan on being there for the noon weigh in at Cal Lutheran, with debit card in hand……glad to see you haven’t lost forty pounds or somethin’…at $4 a pound!