Onwards & Downwards: November 2017

[AB Editor]

Shiny new thread for November! (Not sure where this year has gone...)

Here is the previous thread: https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Weight-Loss-and-Dieting/Question1573450.html

[Old_Geezer]

Cheers Ed.

[xstitcher]

Thanks so much Ed. You’re really on the ball and we appreciate it.

[Old_Geezer]

Utter disaster. Took the batteries out of the scales and recharged them. This morning the reading is ridiculously greater than before ! And it didn't take ages settling down before showing the result.

Thought the belt was rather tight.

Unless tomorrow shows that it was a freak scale failure today, I don't think I'll be updating Wednesday. I'll need to start from a scratch baseline, and/or even maybe decide whether it is all worth it at all.

[xstitcher]

Good morning all, why don’t you start with the new weight OG. I’ve been in hospital with a heart that was beating too fast and was out of rhythm. It’s fine now but my intake of liquids has been lowered much to my horror so I’m starting here to day anew with the new weight I just got on the scales and have been told to weigh myself every day. Any rise of one kilo or more means liquid retention.

[Old_Geezer]

Morning. Has been dropping (slightly) each day since but still likely to be bad news when I check in a while. Good luck with your daily weigh in.

[wendilla]

Morning both just realised I posted on last months posts .but still the same after waiting for my birthday nosh up to catch up despite losing last week

[Old_Geezer]

As expected, down over the last 24 hours but well up over the week, presumably due to the battery charge. Scales should either not work or be accurate, not become random and hope it's noticed.

Morning Wend. Hope it doesn't find you.

[ummmm]

Have you thought about getting just bog standard scales, OG? I know mine are accurate as my daughter weighs herself at the gym.

I sill think you should scrap your daily weigh ins.

I weighed myself yesterday and was 4lb up, got daughter to check them and she said they were correct. Weighed myself this morning and I'm 2lb lighter than yesterday. That's how much weight fluctuates daily. You're doing yourself no favours weighing daily.

[Old_Geezer]

Allegedly up a further 0.2 lbs.
Tried twice and both times the scales settled on that value immediately without any movement, up nor down; so I find it highly suspicious.

[xstitcher]

OG I’ve been in hospital with a heart complaint which involved water retention. I’ve been told by the experts that our weight fluctuates all the time. I have to weigh myself every day to measure how much water I have but you could weigh as you do and then divide by 7 once a week to get your average weight.
By the way, I’ve lost 30 pounds since I began my quest in August......that is both fat and water.

[Old_Geezer]

Well done x.

[wendilla]

Morning I forgot to weight but can safely say I have stayed the same be a surprise if I have lost .

[xstitcher]

Good morning all, I’m down two pounds. That makes a total of 12.7 kilos (about 25 pounds) in 4 months (with help of the diuretics) I’m now used to my smaller portions which don’t look that small. I still get very tempted by certain adverts on the TV.
Are you all being very good so you can allow some food fun at Christmas? Mmmmm turkey dressing!

[Old_Geezer]

Apparently not.

By some miracle it is way up from last week and half of it is over the last 24 hours. I don't know why I'm putting myself through this any more. When I've time I'll start to check what has happened all week.

[wendilla]

Forgot all about weighing this week been busy but today guess what I knew it still the same but would like a few lbs off .

[Old_Geezer]

Well done anyway.

I've just had a check of what I've eaten over the last 3 weeks. I've been very slack in recording as I go, let alone monitoring, and I find myself updating the list at the end of the day more often than not.

For sure, weekends away, when I have less control, are higher, but shockingly not as much difference as I'd expect. I've been within the daily intake target only 3 times, been very close a further twice and maybe one or two others not too far above, but the others are way over.

Here's the problem with losing enthusiasm for something that's been going on far too long. The recording slips, the monitoring does, and one relies on not gorging oneself, but simply eating when one feels the need, and the amount eaten must just rise over time.

I don't understand this idea of not monitoring and just eating healthily; clearly it doesn't work well. Not that I spend ages in the kitchen preparing stuff, but I avoid most things on the high energy list.

I definitely have to find the push to monitor properly over the day again. Perhaps plan better on the 4 days I am more in control.

[xstitcher]

It sounds like you are where I was in July. That’s when I found out about getting a dietist involved because my way of eating healthy wasn’t working. My baggage was packed with the right things but I just didn’t have the keys to open the door.

[xstitcher]

Good morning all,

Now my speedy descent seems to end slowing down to a normal pace with a loss of 200 grams this week. I’m going for a checkup at the hospital today.

[Old_Geezer]

Good luck with it x.

[Old_Geezer]

Apparently down 2 lbs over the week. Better than of late, but still weighing way above any acceptable level.