Weekly weigh-in number 11 (again, brief)

I'm really sorry to be so short with these posts.  87.55 kg, and I'm 6 day without sugar.  My headaches have gone away, no appetite yet (but I'm not caring about that).

Weekly weigh-in number 10 (brief)

Just a few lines here, I'm rather busy.  I weighed 87.85 kilograms today, lowest weight in about a month.  I'm also about 79 hours without sugar, I'm having headaches every day for 3 days, and I've lost my appetite.

Weekly weigh-in number 9

88.5 kg, a loss of 1.0 kilograms from last week.  So I'm going well, eating below maintenance for the last week.  I'm back in my 86.5-88.5 kg range which I've been for the last 6-7 months.  I've given myself a new challenge - to eat below maintenance each day until December 7th, the day I fly off to see the Philippine lady.

So what number is maintenance?  I really don't know, but I'm finding out.  Since the 3rd September I've been recording my intake and daily weight, which is the perfect recipe for finding out how much energy my body is consuming every day.  Of course it has a degree of error, but I'm fine with that, it's not likely to be more than 10% off the true value.

I'm using a spreadsheet, and I've got two numbers.  The first is the average of a daily (previous day intake less gain the next day) which is 10,093 kJ.  The other is achieved by graphing daily intake vs next day gain, and using a linear trend line to see where the trend passes through the y=0 line.  That number is 9,290 kJ.  I don't know why the two numbers are so wide apart, the question is which is a better method?  Who knows right now.  I'm hoping that the two numbers will move together after a while.  I was hoping that it would be definite by 12 days, but that doesn't seem to be happening.

Apart from that, everything is going alright.  I'm losing.  Catch you next week.

Weekly weigh-in number 8

89.5 kg, a gain of 500 grams from last week.

I happened to eat quite a lot of chips last night, which is the likely cause of my gain this morning.  That's fine, but I am eating more than maintenance.  Not a huge amount, but it's having an affect on my weight.  I need to keep my intake below maintenance, and I need to plan my meals better.

Another thing which I need to do is reduce my sugar intake.  I calculated my intake today as 94 grams, which is way too much.  I need to cut that back to zero, ideally.  By sugar I mean sweet food made from corn or cane stalks or whatever.  I don't mean the sugar in an apple, as an example.

I'm estimating my metabolism, and I'm on day 6 so far.  I was hoping that my average number (calculated from what I ate yesterday minus today's gain multiplied by 30,500) would have stabilised by now, but the number is all over the place.  Hopefully it'll be relatively constant in a week or two.

See you next week.

Weekly weigh-in number 7

89.0 kilograms, a gain of 1.1 kilograms since last posting.  My weight is kind of variable right now, it's going up and down probably because of variations of salt intake each day.  That doesn't bother me, it'll even out over a few days or so.  My weight is slowly inching upwards, and that's because I am trying to wean myself from going to cafes as referred to in my last post.  That's not a big worry, I just need to keep it in check.  I've decided to not go cold turkey regarding sugar, rather slowly phase it out over weeks or months.  So I'll be having sugar every day for a while yet.

About a week ago I did something I'd been delaying for about a year.  I have 180 days of kilojoules consumed data, and I have some weight records at the start and end, and I decided to see how the two related.  I did the calculation (lost weight x 30,500 kilojoules per kilogram) and then used the average daily intake to calculate my estimated metabolism, how many kilojoules I was meant to consume every day. 

I don't know why I did it then, I guess I was worried that the number was worryingly low meaning my metabolism had gone to crap because of all of the dieting I had done over the years and so avoided the calculation much earlier.

Thankfully the number was normal, or at least it seemed to be normal to me.  So I've decided to measure it again, and see what number I get.  I'll keep you informed.

I'm also unsure what amount of food to eat each day.  I've decided to have a system: my average daily intake has to reduce from a reasonably high number.  How quickly or slowly it reduces will be up to me, it just has to reduce.  Let's see how that system goes.  I'll give you an update next week.