75 Down, 25 to GO!

It was a stellar week. I lost a whopping 9 pounds this week!! I'm down 75 pounds, which is 3 pounds from my mini goal of 219 (The lowest I've ever weighed in my adult life) and just 25 pounds away from my ultimate goal of losing 100 pounds!! Yay!

If you remember last week, I spent several days, not exercising and eating whatever I wanted. The result was that I gained 2 pounds last week. Well here's what I was thinking.. Since I hit a plateau, I was trying to figure why. I was still exercising, still eating right, but yet, my body quit losing weight, it went on strike. So I thought, "ok, my body must be thinking that I'm starving, that I'm losing too much weight and it was starting to hold on to what it still had." So I ate a lot of 'No No' foods, lots of carbs, lots of calories and gained 2 pounds last week. I went back on YOAD, did my hour of walking and this week I've lost 9 pounds. My body must be saying 'Ok, crisis over, the guy's not starving, let's lose some more weight'. Now, this is NO WAY scientific, it was just what I was thinking. I don't really know how many calories I eat during a normal YOAD day, but it seems like maybe I should be increasing those so my body doesn't go in starvation mode.

Anyway, Here's the numbers, I've condensed the list to list results for every 5 weeks up to week 20...

Week.....Date.......Weight.....Lost.....Waist....Lost

Start.2/28/2007.......297.....n/a.......57......n/a
5.......4/04/2007.......271.....26........52........5
10.....5/09/2007.......254.....43........47........9
15.....6/13/2007.......240.....57........44.......13
20.....7/18/2007.......229.....68........41.......16
21.....7/25/2007.......229.....68........41.......16
22.....8/01/2007.......231.....66........41.......16
23.....8/08/2007......222......75........39.......18