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Post by Jennifer on Aug 31, 2019 11:45:15 GMT
Lots of experience with that here.. usually not a surprise when I see it.
What changed for you this week?
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Post by zazzles on Aug 31, 2019 14:06:02 GMT
weIghT happens. Stay the course and this, too, shall pass.
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Post by quark12000 on Aug 31, 2019 18:05:43 GMT
Lots of experience with that here.. usually not a surprise when I see it. What changed for you this week? Hours at work changed, so I had to weigh myself in the afternoon rather than the morning. I think that had something to do with it. |
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Post by Jennifer on Aug 31, 2019 20:41:08 GMT
[quote author=" quark12000" source="/post/440972/thread" [/quote]I had to weigh myself in the afternoon rather than the morning. I think that had something to do with it. [/quote] Absolutely!! |
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Post by zazzles on Aug 31, 2019 20:47:17 GMT
Hours at work changed, so I had to weigh myself in the afternoon rather than the morning. I think that had something to do with it. Probably accounts for it totally. |
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Post by finreporter on Sept 1, 2019 1:41:54 GMT
LIke mike said, just stay the course. We weigh different weights at different times of the day. No need to fret.
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Post by quark12000 on Sept 8, 2019 13:35:48 GMT
Well, here's my update. Work has been frazzling (is that a word?) and I'm on a swing shift. Every other week I work 6am to 4:30pm switching with 4pm to 2:30am. On early shift I work out before work, on late shift I go to PF after work. I'd been using the scale on the dock to weigh myself in the morning before work. Obviously I can't do that every week now. I tried it a week ago and weighed myself before starting late shift and, as you saw, I was up 3 pounds. So I've bought my own scale and I'm going to weigh myself every Sunday morning after I go to the gym. I'm trying to control as many variables as possible here and keep conditions equal for every weigh-in. Weighed myself this morning, and note that I'm wearing my regular clothes, not work clothes and no shoes (don't want to dirty up the scale). It read 189.2 today. Now, I obviously didn't lose 10.8 pounds this week from last weeks 200, so let's just use this as a new baseline and go from here.
Thanks for indulging this word dump.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Sept 9, 2019 0:19:42 GMT
quark12000, Good idea getting your own scale. No two scales register the same although they say all the scales at a meeting place are calibrated.
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Post by cathygeha on Sept 9, 2019 5:47:18 GMT
For fun...and only for fun...it might be interesting to track your weight on the two shifts...at the beginning of each shift. Still do the main one after your workout weekly but...just for curiosity do the other two. It is amazing how much a body's weight can fluctuate in a day...or from evening till the next morning.
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Post by quark12000 on Sept 30, 2019 22:41:53 GMT
Sorry I haven't updated until now. Been rather busy. And frustrated. I've been at 189.2 for 3 weeks now. Don't know if I'm doing something wrong or I've just reached my plateau. I hope not, because I wanted to get into normal range.
On the exercise front, I haven't been able to workout much recently. I'm still doing cardio, but weightlifting is out. I did something to my back, pulled something, but I've been having a good amount of pain in my midback, with accompanying small spasms at time.
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Post by zazzles on Sept 30, 2019 22:57:40 GMT
quark12000, just hang in there…don’t let a lack of losses and a physical disability be an excuse to throw in the towel. If you are maintaining, that’s a WIN. Think about whether there is some simple exercise you can do in place of the weight lifting—for instance simply adding a 10 to 15 minute walk two to three times a day.
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Post by quark12000 on Sept 30, 2019 23:07:20 GMT
Well, I've increased my treadmill use from 30 min to an hour, and I do it every day. And I'm just frustrated, not despondent. No chance of me throwing in the towel! Especially with the new system coming out. I'm quite curious to see what it will be.
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Post by quark12000 on Oct 6, 2019 21:50:37 GMT
188.6 this week, down from 189.2. Seems I've really slowed down on the losing front, but still losing. My goal is to get to "normal" weight, according to BMI, that would be 125 to 170.
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Post by borntexan on Oct 6, 2019 21:54:30 GMT
quark12000 Weight loss does slow down after awhile.Slow and steady helps you keep it off.You have done an awesome job.Just take the losses as they come and do what you have been doing.The rest will come.
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Post by surfgirl on Oct 8, 2019 18:00:38 GMT
Hi quark12000, you're doing incredibly well, good for you! When you start getting closer to goal your losses can start slowing down to much smaller increments and even some plateaus as well. Just stay OP and work the program and it will work for you, we've all been there at some point.
You mentioned plateaus and I wanted to share with you the Wendie approach to using your WPs. For me, if I use the same amount of DPs per day, I don't lose as much as when I stagger the use of my WPs. The "Wendie" Plan is just using your WPs sporadically during the week so that you keep your metabolism guessing. If you're interested you can check out our old thread here:
We were a small group and when we jumped ship and came over here, the majority of the group decided they only wanted to connect via FB, so it's not an active thread anymore but if you have any questions after reading the top/first post (which explains how to work your WPs), just message me or post over there and tag me and I'll come over and answer any questions. Just a suggestion since it really helped with with plateaus and I liked it enough that I continue to use it today. FYI, I use it with PP though, but I think if you follow the link there to figure out your daily WP usage, they might have an option for Smart Points I think, if that's what you're on. Cheers and keep on going!
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