7/17/2020 Weighing In - With Measurements

I didn't get the chance to even get near my blog yesterday or the day before. The day before ... enh ... I weighed in yet again at 219.75. But yesterday ... yesterday the scales tipped at 218.75. As they did today. 218.75 today, too.

I started this weight loss two weeks ago today at 227.75. In two weeks, I'm down 9 pounds! That rate is not likely to continue, since ... ahem ... several of those 9 pounds I lost in the first couple of days while detoxing. But it's encouraging to see the tonnage falling off.

I like this system. Optavia is apparently associated with MediFast (the same people who designed MediFast also designed Optavia). Optavia borders on being a very low calorie diet, or VLCD ... one eats 800-1000 calories per day ... at the weight-loss stage. I did a VLCD years ago, in the late 1990s, that pulled a ton of weight off of me. But then I started law school full time at FPLC with easy access to Brian-the-Chef's scrumptious soups every day and yoyo'd right back up. So I know I can get it off. My challenge is ... has always been ... keeping it off.

But I'm not there yet. I'm still getting it off. One step at a time.

I have this new weight app on my phone that will easily track my weight daily (yay!). Then it will show me graphs and analyses and all that stuff. This weight app tells me that my ideal weight is 144.5. So okay; that's my new goal weight. 144.5, here I come. I ate my way over that weight when I was in junior high school, so this will be good.

Measurements.

	7/2/2020 Baseline	7/12/2020 Last Week	7/17/2020 Today	Difference	TOTAL Difference	Week % Lost	Total % Lost
Weight	227.75	220.25	218.75	1.5	9	0.68%	3.95%
Neck	16.75	16	16.5	-0.5	0.25	-3.13%	1.49%
Bust	47	45	44.5	0.5	2.5	1.11%	5.32%
Waist	48	46	46	0	2	0.00%	4.17%
Hips	47.125	45.5	44.5	1	2.625	2.20%	5.57%
Upper Arm L	14	13.5	13.5	0	0.5	0.00%	3.57%
Upper Arm R	14.75	14	13.75	0.25	1	1.79%	6.78%
Mid-Thigh L	21.5	19.75	20.125	-0.375	1.375	-1.90%	6.40%
Mid-Thigh R	22.5	21.75	21	0.75	1.5	3.45%	6.67%
Calf L	15.25	15	15	0	0.25	0.00%	1.64%
Calf R	15	15	15	0	0	0.00%	0.00%
Total Body Inches	245.125	235.5	233.375	2.125	11.75	0.90%	4.79%
Inches Lost	0	-9.625	-11.75	-2.125	11.75
BMI	34	33	32.3

Yeah. I'm a happy camper. I lost an overall 2.125 inches this week (11.75 inches overall!!), and I'm down a total of 3.95 of my weight and 4.79% of my body measurements! And I LOVE that downward drift of my BMI ....

Weighing In 11/1/2018

201.5,  down 1 lb from 202.5 on 10/27.

And it's Measurements Day:

	3/14/17	1-Oct	1-Nov	Month's Difference	TOTAL   Difference	Month % Lost
Weight	256	209.75	201.5	-8.25	-54.5	3.70%
Bust	49.5	44	43	-1	-6.5	2.27%
Waist	51	45	43	-2	-8	4.44%
Hips	48	43.5	41	-2.5	-7	5.75%
Upper Arm L	15	13	12.75	-0.25	-2.25	1.92%
Upper Arm R	15	13.125	12.75	-0.375	-2.25	2.86%
Mid-Thigh L	23	19.5	19	-0.5	-4	2.56%
Mid-Thigh R	25	19.5	19	-0.5	-6	2.56%
Calf L	16	14.75	14.5	-0.25	-1.5	1.69%
Calf R	16	14.75	14.5	-0.25	-1.5	1.69%
Total Body Inches	258.5	227.125	219.5	-7.625	-39	3.36%
Inches Lost		-31.375	-39	-7.625	-39

I'd say I'm doing okay here. I seem to be losing about 8 lb per month, which is a good, healthy rate. Inches started peeling off this month because of the Callanetics and the gym and my personal trainer, all of which, given these results, I shall definitely keep doing.

I anticipate breaking that 100s digit VERY SOON!!!!

Weighing In 10/1/2018

209.25, down from 9/29's 210.

Since I started on 9/1/2018 at 218 lb, I've lost 8.75 lb. That's not too shabby. It's had its ups and downs, and I traveled some in September (always a Problem for weight loss), but I show a net loss, which I'm happy about.

The stuff I'm doing at the gym doesn't hurt. That challenge has me doing Callanetics four days this week (today will be the fourth) and has me feeling pretty good. I still can't do a squat-thrust, but I'll get there; it's a 10-week challenge with Darryl (my personal trainer, who is magnificent at kicking butt) and that can't help but get me closer to where I want to be!

Here are today's measurements. I didn't measure last month until 9/9, so it's only 21 days' worth of loss this month. That problem is remedied; today's the first of the month, and I measure on the first of the month.

Since starting on 3/14/2017, I have lost a total of 78.125 inches and 46.75 lb!! No wonder my clothes are falling off of me!! Percentage-wise, I've lost 18.06% of my body mass since 3/14/2017, and 3.78% of my body mass since 1 September (when I weighed in at 218). 

This past month, I lost a total of 3.875 inches, which also isn't too shabby. I've lost, percentage-wise, 15.18% (!!!) of my body measurement since 3/14/2017 and 4.0% of my body measurement since 9/9/2018.

I'm stoked!!

	3/14/17	9-Sep	1-Oct	Month's Difference	TOTAL Difference
Weight	256	210.5	209.25	-1.25	46.75
Bust	49.5	45	44	-1	5.5
Waist	51	45	45	0	6
Hips	48	43	43.5	0.5	4.5
Upper Arm L	15	13	13	0	2
Upper Arm R	15	13.125	13.125	0	1.875
Mid-Thigh L	23	20	19.5	-0.5	3.5
Mid-Thigh R	25	20.5	19.5	-1	5.5
Calf L	16	15.125	14.75	-0.375	1.25
Calf R	16	15	14.75	-0.25	1.25
Inches Lost	514.5	440.25	436.375	3.875	78.125

Weighing In 6/14/2017

222.75, down 0.75 from yesterday's 223.5.

And the plateau breaks, just as I threaten an egg-grapefruit day. Well, that's good ... no egg-grapefruit day needed.

It's been exactly three months since I started this journey. Back on 14 March, I weighed 256 lb. That's 33.25 lb gone in that short time, which is 13% of my original body weight. Major pat-on-the-back time for me! Of course, I still have more to go, and the weight loss rate is slower than I would like it to be so I'm starting to walk more (ohhh, my aching hips...) and I will find a swimming hole this summer (Mick's lake...? I need a more local hole than that) since I left the Y in a huff over their timing of increasing fees in February. And there is the NordicTrack, sitting unused behind my table; I need to pull that out of mothballs. Revving up the exercise will rev up the metabolism which will rev up the loss rate.

Tomorrow I start my travels ... for a week, I will be without my scales. But I will be eating well, blogging my food, and walking a LOT (as much as I can on beaches). I hope to see a goodly drop in the numbers on 23 June!

Weighing In 5/14/2017

230, with no change from yesterday, but I ate breakfast this morning before weighing myself, so there may have been a small loss (she rationalizes).

It's been exactly two months since I started this journey on 14 March; in that time, I've lost 26 pounds (having started at 256), 8.75 pounds since 14 April (when I weighed 238.75). I need to bump up the exercise; that will bump me back up to losing 10 lb/month. But hey ... I'll take the 8.75 pounds!

And hey ... I've now lost 10% of my original body weight! Go me!!!

I have a doctor's appointment in a couple of weeks; I'm looking forward to the doc's reaction to the lesser me (heh heh heh). He doesn't know I'm doing this, so I'll have to bring The Book with me.