Above Yourself

So this weigh in is a little late. Last week was pretty crazy: we had family in town for Thanksgiving plus a bunch of us were sick. Yuck. Here are my stats for the week (as usual, I'm reported my weighted averages):

Last Week's Weight: 258.70 lbs
Current Weight: 257.50 lbs
Difference: 1.2 lbs
Weeks to go: 30
Pounds to go: 27.5

Overall, not as good as last week, but it was more than a pound lost, which was great. I did good on Thanksgiving, but not so good since then with all the leftovers. It's time to refocus again.

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Last Week’s Weight (Weighted average): 260.92 lbs.
Current Weight (Weighted average): 258.70 lbs.
Difference: 2.21 lbs.Weeks to go: 31
Pounds to go: 28.7

This was definitely a good week to kick things off! My goal was one pound lost, but my weighted average went down 2.21 lbs.! Most of it was calorie tracking at Sparkpeople, weighing myself every day at Physics Diet, and lots of time on the basketball court! See you next week, if not sooner!

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It’s been a great week so far! I won’t do my official update for the week yet, but after monitoring what goes in and getting plenty of exercise (mostly on the basketball court), the scale has had much lower numbers for me lately. I’m going to start using a weighted average (as suggested by The Hacker’s Diet) and implemented at Physics Diet to report my weight loss instead of using real numbers on the scale. This lets me factor out the noise in the numbers on the scale and focus on whether I’m losing weight or not.

I’m going to show my chart below that starts the day I began this 30 in 30 quest. You can see that there are red spots (the first day) that indicate when I weighed above my weighted average. The ‘>’ symbol is used to indicate that day’s weight. Green spots indicate where the weight was below the weighted average. The scale read 254.8 this morning, which might be partially due to some funkiness in the scale, but it brought down my weighted average by quite a bit. I’ve been tracking my weight for about two years this way, and I’ve found that when I enter in my weight into this website the same day I do a lot better about keeping it down. This time I’m using other calorie counting tools, too, but I really like PhysicsDiet.com for its price (free!) and ease of use. And who can argue about 1.73 pounds lost in less than a week? I’m looking forward to my first weekly report this Friday.

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There’s something about turning 30 that seems different from all the other numbers before it. 20 isn’t the same. I didn’t feel like I was a “real” adult at 20; I had so many “adult” things ahead of me. But here comes 30. It’s just months away now. I have a little over thirty weeks to go before my birthday next July, so it’s probably time to start on my goals. I figure 30 weeks is significant enough time to get through a really big goal: I want to lose 30 pounds in the 30 weeks before my 30th birthday.30 pounds isn’t just a number – it’s more of a lifestyle change. It’s a course correction. My four-year-old daughter likes to play tag, which she calls “bad guy”. I can play for about ten minutes, running around in our basement, until I’m kind of done. I want to be able to play until she’s the one that has to stop, not me. I want to be able to enjoy my favorite things more: playing with my kids, softball, basketball… the list goes on. The reasons for doing this are all around me. I don’t look how I want to in pictures any more. I recently started needing size 40 jeans. If I stay on this course too much longer, I’ll need much more than a course correction. I could say more about why I’m starting, but I want to keep this short and focused. I can add more later.

The goal: 30 pounds in 30 weeks. I already know a few things that work for me: measurement and accountability. It’s often said “where performance is measured, performance improves”. That’s why the blog. I also like using a “weighted average” seen in The Hacker’s Diet and at physicsdiet.com. The weighted average helps me see through the daily ups and downs on the scale. I’ve done physicsdiet.com before. I’m adding something new this time: more measurement and more accountability. I’m going to say what I eat and how much of it I eat and my extra accountability is to you. I want to set my goal weight at 230, because that’s a much prettier-sounding goal. I’ll give myself 33 weeks, which is July 1st, 2011, another nice round number. That gives me time to look good for the pictures. Once I get to 230, I don’t want my weighted average to go above 230 again.

Today’s weight: 262.4
Weeks to go: 33
Pounds to go: 32.4
Goal Date: Friday July 1, 2011

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