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08 March 2024

My Renpho scale said 66.65kg this morning, so I'll take that as a maintain. That's fine because I very nearly gave up on calorie tracking this week and then reeled it in again.

Walked to work three days, so hit over 10k average steps so far this week. I'll do lots of walking tomorrow too and then a short one on Sunday.

Water intake is good, and IF (about 14/10) is prevailing. I think this maintain is with an average daily calories of between 1800 and 1900, but I don't think I tracked accurately (or at all) on Sunday when we had a roast dinner - so it could be higher. Will try to keep tracking this week.

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend! xxx

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
66.7 kg	19.3 kg	1.7 kg	Reasonably Well

(1 comment) steady weight

06 March 2024

Second meal of the day. Chocolatey sweet potato, banana protein oats. Doesn't look great, but a lovely change.

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06 March 2024

Having two wraps for lunch. Too hard to fit all my stir fry into one.

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01 March 2024

Really chuffed with my weight this morning and the downward trend on my Renpho scale graph. It's still very slow weight loss, but that's what the experts usually recommend so it's all good. Since 68.1kg on Friday, the 2nd, to today is 1.4kg down in 4 weeks, which is an average of 350g a week. If I can keep that average going for the next couple of Fridays I could be at 66kg, which is where I wanted to be for my Easter holiday. I know I'll probably have a gain during that time, but hopefully tons of walking will keep it to a minimum.

I think 3 things have been helping me this week:
- IF - only eating 2 meals a day at just before noon, around 4pm and then a small snack around 9pm when I get home from work helps me stay fairly close to my 1700 calorie target. Ideally I'd have less during the week so that I raise that number over the weekend and still end up at 1700 for the daily average, but I haven't managed it this week.
- hitting over 10k steps for the last three days - walking to work and consciously walking up and down the 4 flights of stairs at work as often as I can and I'll continue to do that for the next 3 weeks.
- peppermint, green and rooibos herbal tea - is helping me to keep water intake up in this persisting cold weather.

So I think the walking is helping to burn some calories, but I think if I didn't keep my calories roughly in check that wouldn't make much of a difference anyway so overall things seem to be going ok. And this is despite not doing any strength workouts for the past couple of weeks.

Wondering if I should take my resistance bands with me on holiday and try to fit some of that in whenever there's a moment, but I don't think there'll be much downtime. My sister has a packed schedule with outings and family visits pretty much every day and I'm so ready for it!

We're doing a Meetup group walk tomorrow in our local park, which is always nice, relaxed and chatty. And they're predicting snow so we'll see about that, but I'll try to get some steps in somehow.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
66.7 kg	19.3 kg	1.7 kg	Reasonably Well

(12 comments) Losing 0.4 kg a Week

24 February 2024

My Renpho scale said 67.05kg yesterday so I'm rounding down. ;)

This week it's been easy to stick to IF, peppermint and green tea are still helping with water intake, and although I haven't had to walk to work on many days I've got an average daily steps of 7.6k so far. Doing a group walk tomorrow so will hopefully raise that a bit. Last week my average steps was over 10k so I know that helps too.

Strength workouts are still out of the window, so I'm not sure when they'll come back. I think I went through this last year as well - where winter drags on and I just can't switch my mind out of this kind of latent 'funk' that hangs around at the back of all my thoughts and seems to elevate work and life stress just that little bit so it takes over. On the surface I try to be 'normal' and cheerful and I'm still taking Vitamin D most days when I remember, but I do just wish the temperatures would start to get warmer. I am very grateful that the sun is rising earlier and setting a bit later though!

Still doing my gratitude journal - on Day 19 today. It does seem to help a bit.

I'm taking today and tomorrow off calorie counting. I would normally do it closer to the end of the month, but I'm making lasagne with garlic bread later so it will just be easier this way. I'll resume calorie counting again on Monday for the last 3 week push to my Easter holiday. If I can lose 1kg in those three week that would be grand! For me it's all about getting that daily average down to 1700 or lower and last week it was 1720. I think this week will be closer to 1900 and then if I can get as close to it again for the last 3 weeks I might just make it.

Hope you're all having a lovely weekend! xxx

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
67 kg	19 kg	2 kg	Reasonably Well

(11 comments) Losing 0.2 kg a Week

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