100/100: At 100 Days - Almost
We're at the 100 day point (Correction: we're at
95 days. It's Line 100 in the spreadsheet I track this stuff in... but hey, I'm
leaving the post cause I haven't updated in a while). Today I was 227 lb...
which is good. I spent a very long time (almost three weeks) oscillating around
229-230 so my trend is slowing and/or has experienced a plateau. Looks like I'm
back on track (touch wood).
227 is still fat. Still a long way to go. Beats the living daylights out of 262, though.
More PT Drill Sergeant
I have redoubled my PT efforts, which, for a guy that can't run, are limited. I do walk briskly carrying hand weights. I have been using the excellent Heavyhands, but was at their limit with 5 lb, so I bought some eight-pound dumbbells at Target. Not as comfortable as Heavyhands, and they are already looking a bit weathered after a couple of uses, but they're 8 lb. each (3.6 kg to those of you using Robespierre's system of weights and measures -- you know who you are). The extra weight brought me to a remarkable and kind of delightful pass I hadn't been at in recent years -- complete muscle failure, at least in my left arm.
Yeah, just a two mile walk pumping my eight pound weights fails my weak arm. At the end of the adventure, I can only raise that dumbbell by swinging it... if I just look at it and try to curl it from a standstill my bicep quivers but nothing happens. By this time my young SF buds are rolling on the floor, belly-laughing out loud. Ah, youth. Your time will come.
I had forgotten how good muscle failure PT feels. So far I've taken the eight-pounders out twice, and they've wiped out my left arm twice. It's a little better each time but it will be quite a while, I think, before I can walk with 8-pounders without any inconvenience. It helps that there's a huge hill on my walking course -- I go downhill for a mile and a half or so, and then uphill for half a mile.
The question becomes, what happens when it no longer fails my arm? I expect I will sometime soon double my walk... I'll do that without weights, or with the little ones.
I wish Heavyhands were available with weights above 5 lb. though. They are really a well-designed, superior product. I've torn part of my neoprene, but then this set of Heavyhands is over 20 years old!!
Summing Up
I hadn't updated some aspects of my spreadsheet in seven days, so the Resting Pulse graph has a lot of interpolated data in it. Graphs and stats overleaf.
At 100 days, I am over 1/3 of the way to my planned loss of 102 lb and continue to lose weight at a sustainable pace, and ahead of my conservatively planned 1-lb-a-week minimum. Likewise, four inches plus have come off my waistline since I began this journey. The possibility glimmers on the horizon, of completing my initial weight loss in one year vice two (52 weeks instead of 104). In actuality, I think the slowed weight-loss of the last weeks probably portends more plateaus and frustrations to come.
Like everything in life, if it was easy, it wouldn't be half the challenge.
And like everything else in life, this weight issue could have been prevented with less effort than is now being used to fix it.
227 is still fat. Still a long way to go. Beats the living daylights out of 262, though.
More PT Drill Sergeant
I have redoubled my PT efforts, which, for a guy that can't run, are limited. I do walk briskly carrying hand weights. I have been using the excellent Heavyhands, but was at their limit with 5 lb, so I bought some eight-pound dumbbells at Target. Not as comfortable as Heavyhands, and they are already looking a bit weathered after a couple of uses, but they're 8 lb. each (3.6 kg to those of you using Robespierre's system of weights and measures -- you know who you are). The extra weight brought me to a remarkable and kind of delightful pass I hadn't been at in recent years -- complete muscle failure, at least in my left arm.
Yeah, just a two mile walk pumping my eight pound weights fails my weak arm. At the end of the adventure, I can only raise that dumbbell by swinging it... if I just look at it and try to curl it from a standstill my bicep quivers but nothing happens. By this time my young SF buds are rolling on the floor, belly-laughing out loud. Ah, youth. Your time will come.
I had forgotten how good muscle failure PT feels. So far I've taken the eight-pounders out twice, and they've wiped out my left arm twice. It's a little better each time but it will be quite a while, I think, before I can walk with 8-pounders without any inconvenience. It helps that there's a huge hill on my walking course -- I go downhill for a mile and a half or so, and then uphill for half a mile.
The question becomes, what happens when it no longer fails my arm? I expect I will sometime soon double my walk... I'll do that without weights, or with the little ones.
I wish Heavyhands were available with weights above 5 lb. though. They are really a well-designed, superior product. I've torn part of my neoprene, but then this set of Heavyhands is over 20 years old!!
Summing Up
I hadn't updated some aspects of my spreadsheet in seven days, so the Resting Pulse graph has a lot of interpolated data in it. Graphs and stats overleaf.
At 100 days, I am over 1/3 of the way to my planned loss of 102 lb and continue to lose weight at a sustainable pace, and ahead of my conservatively planned 1-lb-a-week minimum. Likewise, four inches plus have come off my waistline since I began this journey. The possibility glimmers on the horizon, of completing my initial weight loss in one year vice two (52 weeks instead of 104). In actuality, I think the slowed weight-loss of the last weeks probably portends more plateaus and frustrations to come.
Like everything in life, if it was easy, it wouldn't be half the challenge.
And like everything else in life, this weight issue could have been prevented with less effort than is now being used to fix it.
Stats:
Eaten an average of 1572 calories mean, 1621 median.
That's 128 under target (mean)
Initial weight was 262 lbs.
Current weight is 227 lbs.
lost so far: 35 lbs.
I am no longer severely obese (that begins at 231).
I have 30 lbs to go till I'm no longer obese.
I have 62 lbs to go till I'm no longer overweight.
I have 67 lbs to go till my objective.
Graphs:
This is the one that tells the general story, "Weekly Weight." Note that it still shows a week elapsed number that's off by one, because I haven't looked into how to make it start counting the series at zero. (Heck, for a computer, that should come natural). Note that while this report is at 100 days, that's actually the middle of a week; the end date for Weekly Weight is Day 96 (Err, further corrections. Those are spreadsheet values, not true elapsed dates).
For the Daily Weight chart, I'm going to stick with the area chart for now. (It would be kind of neat to do it in the kind of chart used for stocks that shows the daily high and low, but I am not going to get that obsessive. It is arguably too much to weigh-in daily). This daily chart DOES run through Day 100 (line 100... really Day 95).
Note that the Daily Weight chart shows a lower end weight... because this is posted in the middle of a measurement week.
The Resting Pulse chart -- I wasn't going to use this because of the data hole, but now I did by interpolating data. Since RP shows much more fluctuation than anything else, that's probably a bad idea, but hey, it's my chart.
I'm beginning to think that this chart is of pretty low value. Likewise, not much action on the waistline size chart (it takes about 7 lb to take an inch off, it seems). Maybe I'll set that up as a monthly chart.
So that's the stats at 100 days. I'm not thrilled with the reduced rate of weight reduction recently, but I can live with it and so far have not needed drastic measures.
Eaten an average of 1572 calories mean, 1621 median.
That's 128 under target (mean)
Initial weight was 262 lbs.
Current weight is 227 lbs.
lost so far: 35 lbs.
I am no longer severely obese (that begins at 231).
I have 30 lbs to go till I'm no longer obese.
I have 62 lbs to go till I'm no longer overweight.
I have 67 lbs to go till my objective.
Graphs:
This is the one that tells the general story, "Weekly Weight." Note that it still shows a week elapsed number that's off by one, because I haven't looked into how to make it start counting the series at zero. (Heck, for a computer, that should come natural). Note that while this report is at 100 days, that's actually the middle of a week; the end date for Weekly Weight is Day 96 (Err, further corrections. Those are spreadsheet values, not true elapsed dates).
For the Daily Weight chart, I'm going to stick with the area chart for now. (It would be kind of neat to do it in the kind of chart used for stocks that shows the daily high and low, but I am not going to get that obsessive. It is arguably too much to weigh-in daily). This daily chart DOES run through Day 100 (line 100... really Day 95).
Note that the Daily Weight chart shows a lower end weight... because this is posted in the middle of a measurement week.
The Resting Pulse chart -- I wasn't going to use this because of the data hole, but now I did by interpolating data. Since RP shows much more fluctuation than anything else, that's probably a bad idea, but hey, it's my chart.
I'm beginning to think that this chart is of pretty low value. Likewise, not much action on the waistline size chart (it takes about 7 lb to take an inch off, it seems). Maybe I'll set that up as a monthly chart.
So that's the stats at 100 days. I'm not thrilled with the reduced rate of weight reduction recently, but I can live with it and so far have not needed drastic measures.
Posted: Monday - October 02, 2006 at 12:30 PM
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