Well, that was nice. After all that stressing and hand-wringing last night about needing to smash through this 1st 10 lbs down, I got up this morning and skipped right over 216 lbs for a 215.9 lb weigh-in. As I noted in in my similar post last Sunday, I know what normal fluctuations are and that this is just a normal fluctuation, that it’ll probably be up tomorrow unless I fast or run for 10 hours.
BUT, for a day following the fretting about tapering off in the weight loss and giving up, it was a nice wake-up. There also is a small asterisk on this 1st 10 lbs down: I started on April 19 at 227.0 lbs. Today was 215.9 lbs, so that’s 10 lbs down. However, the weekly average is not yet 10 lbs down — I need to average 215.4 lbs or less this week for that to happen, which would also put me ahead of my goal weight this week of 216.1 lbs. Which, honestly, I’d be totally fine with.
Now, that said, I did note last night that I’d be happy if the bodyfat percentage stayed where it was since I was already ahead, just so long as it didn’t go up. Which is what it did, and it got more consistent. What do I mean by that? I use three different formulœ to calculate bodyfat based off of several different measurements around the body. I then take the average of those and the standard deviation. That way, I get an idea of the trend and idea of how uncertain the result really is. Last week, the measurements averaged 27.26±2.85%, which is a fairly large spread. I interpret the large spread as indicative of being out of shape, and the formulœ breaking down once you get above a certain fat percentage since everyone carries their weight differently. This week, the numbers got to 27.29±2.47%. So, it’s the same bodyfat percent average, but the spread of the three numbers is smaller, which I interpret to mean that things are getting better as stuff moves around. And, with the week-over-week weight loss, I actually have lost fat.
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