Week 10 Weigh in. A statistical analysis so far

At the 2 ½ month mark I thought I would do some number crunching…  According to the World Health Organisation and the Australian Government I still have a few centimetres and Kilograms to go before I am out of the danger zone of being a prime candidate for developing chronic diseases such as cariovascular disease and diabetes etc. I need to lose another 8kg before I enter the healthy weight range with regards to the BMI (Body Mass Index) I currently sit at 28.1. As you can see from the BMI scale below, there is still a fair amount of work to do. It’s interesting because when I tell people my goal weight they say “don’t you think that’s a bit skinny?” but in actual fact it will fall in the upper third percentile of the normal weight range, so really it’s not skinny, it’s necessary and healthy…

BMI scale

·         Underweight = <18.5

·         Normal weight = 18.5–24.9 (I want to be here 23.1)

·         Overweight = 25–29.9 (I am here at 28.1)

·         Obesity = BMI of 30 or greater (I used to be here at 32.8)- holy crap, now wonder why I felt dreadful…

In addition, I need to lose another 6cm from my waist in order to be considered at a lower risk of developing the chronic diseases previously mentioned, which mind you are linked to diet in a lot of cases. Women need to have a measurement of 80cm or less and Men 94cm or less in order to fall within the healthy range.  The waist measurement is thought to be more accurate than the BMI, as it can measure more accurately the fat that surrounds your vital organs (which is very bad…) Apparently there is a direct link between belly fat and nasty organ fat.

Ok, the thought of being so far away from being healthy is quite painful and somewhat annoying as it just illustrates how bloody fat I was and still am. On the flipside I am almost half way there (I only need to lose ½ kg to reach my ½ way mark of 12.5kg, I was hoping to be there this week, but it wasn’t meant to be.  I am trying to be positive here in order to keep on going. To finish off for the week I thought I would give you in numbers the total loss so far, it sounds so much better that way particularly the total cm… I have lost 12kg and a total of 43cm to date...

Measurements/stats	Start	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5
Weight	84kg	80.5kg	81kg	79.5kg	78kg	77kg
Upper arms	34.5cm	33cm	33cm	33.5cm	32cm	31.5cm
Neck	36cm	36cm	36cm	36cm	35.5cm	35.5cm
Bust	109cm	108cm	106.5cm	104cm	103cm	101cm
Waist	97cm	89cm	90cm	91cm	90cm	91cm
Hips	111.5cm	104cm	105cm	103cm	103.5cm	105cm
Thighs	70cm	69cm	68cm	68.5cm	67.5cm	65.5cm
Measurements/stats	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10
Weight	75kg	75kg	73kg	72.5kg	72kg
Upper arms	32cm	31cm	31cm	31cm	30cm
Neck	36cm	36cm	35cm	35cm	35cm
Bust	99.5cm	101.5cm	99.5cm	99.5cm	99cm
Waist	87.5cm	87cm	87.5cm	86.5cm	86cm
Hips	104cm	104cm	100cm	100.5cm	100cm
Thighs	67cm	66.5cm	65.5cm	65cm	65cm

FYI: This weeks weigh in will be either on Friday or Sunday...

A government website I found interesting (press HERE to access)

Week 10 energy intake

Saturday 5th March, 2011

(B) Scrambled eggs made with cheese and milk + salad
(L) Salmon & Avocado salad sandwich
(D) Curried sausages with rice

Snacks
4 coffees
apricots & nuts
Glass of wine

Week 9 weigh in "A festivus for the rest of us"

Good morning everyone, well it’s been a week full of things I shouldn’t eat and drink, but hey, a girl has got to do what a girl has to do! People insist on getting older, which requires an eating and drink fest, you have friends over, which requires an eating fest, you have a cook-a-thon, which requires a tasting fest, in fact there are lots of reasons for fests, just being a Sunday is a good reason for a fest… lucky I went for 4 walks otherwise it may have panned out quite differently.

The results so far…

Measurements/stats	Start	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5
Weight	84kg	80.5kg	81kg	79.5kg	78kg	77kg
Upper arms	34.5cm	33cm	33cm	33.5cm	32cm	31.5cm
Neck	36cm	36cm	36cm	36cm	35.5cm	35.5cm
Bust	109cm	108cm	106.5cm	104cm	103cm	101cm
Waist	97cm	89cm	90cm	91cm	90cm	91cm
Hips	111.5cm	104cm	105cm	103cm	103.5cm	105cm
Thighs	70cm	69cm	68cm	68.5cm	67.5cm	65.5cm
Measurements/stats	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9
Weight	75kg	75kg	73kg	72.5kg
Upper arms	32cm	31cm	31cm	31cm
Neck	36cm	36cm	35cm	35cm
Bust	99.5cm	101.5cm	99.5cm	99.5cm
Waist	87.5cm	87cm	87.5cm	86.5cm
Hips	104cm	104cm	100cm	100.5cm
Thighs	67cm	66.5cm	65.5cm	65cm

Week 9 energy intake

Saturday 26th Feb, 2011

(B) Cottage cheese & salad with olives
(L) Poached chicken with corn on the cob & olives with salad
(D) Pasta with tomato pesto, smoked salmon, pinenuts & olives with a walnut salad

Snacks

3 coffees
An apple with nuts
3 glasses of wine

Week 8 weigh in. Who said "you can't have your cake and eat it to"?

Well all odds have been defied this week, which means I’m not sure where my theory stands! A 2kg loss is nothing short of a miracle… so I guess what I have to say is this, "you can have an extremely bad blowout with nil effect if you sandwich it between 2 good weeks"…

I have been asked again and again, "what am I doing"? so I am going to summarise it for you.

* I am eating smaller portions (not man size) Alan doesn't eat like a bird...
* I don't eat in front of the TV (most of the time) and I try to be aware that I am eating.
* I have cut right back on wine, I hope the benefits of weight loss outweigh the medicinal effects of red wine on the heart!
* I try not to eat too much bread and if I do, it’s not white bread :(
* I don’t deny myself treats, instead, I factor them in.
* I try to eat salad or vegies at every meal (breakfast is sometimes a bit tricky)
* I walk (this week I walked 4 times).
* I don’t stress out if I fail, I just try to start eating healthy again as soon as I can.

In summary, I am aiming for a healthy lifestyle change based on balance. Here's to old age and great physical health…

The results so far...

Measurements/stats	Start	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5
Weight	84kg	80.5kg	81kg	79.5kg	78kg	77kg
Upper arms	34.5cm	33cm	33cm	33.5cm	32cm	31.5cm
Neck	36cm	36cm	36cm	36cm	35.5cm	35.5cm
Bust	109cm	108cm	106.5cm	104cm	103cm	101cm
Waist	97cm	89cm	90cm	91cm	90cm	91cm
Hips	111.5cm	104cm	105cm	103cm	103.5cm	105cm
Thighs	70cm	69cm	68cm	68.5cm	67.5cm	65.5cm
Measurements/stats	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8
Weight	75kg	75kg	73kg
Upper arms	32cm	31cm	31cm
Neck	36cm	36cm	35cm
Bust	99.5cm	101.5cm	99.5cm
Waist	87.5cm	87cm	87.5cm
Hips	104cm	104cm	100cm
Thighs	67cm	66.5cm	65.5cm

 

Week 8 energy intake

Saturday 19th February, 2011

(B) Salmon, cottage cheese and vegies
(L) BBQ sausage, potato & salad
(D) Devon sandwich, apricots and nuts

Snacks
3 coffees
Nuts and apricots

Week 7 weigh in "Sorry it's late"...

I knew it was going to be near impossible to see any movement this week, as the past weeks eating/drinking activities rivalled those I had at Christmas time. Lets put it this way, Christmas was one of the major reasons why I started the blog in the first place… But never mind it could be a lot worse, which leads me to a theory that I want to test this week.

Theory
How long does it take for food to turn into fat and find its way onto body parts? 

1 day /1 week etc.

The reason for this test is that I have had huge blowouts (close to weigh in day) since I started and they have not appeared on my weight measurement when I thought they would, however, much to my horror they have appeared a little later, regardless of whether I had a good week or not. After this week I thought for sure there would have been a nasty surprise waiting for me (blowout occured a little earlier in the week), however, there wasn’t. Therefore in theory the acid test will be next week!  To test properly, I will carry on as normal and see if I gain weight as anticipated…

Week 7 Photographs...

Measurements	Start	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5
Weight	84kg	80.5kg	81kg	79.5kg	78kg	77kg
Upper arms	34.5cm	33cm	33cm	33.5cm	32cm	31.5cm
Neck	36cm	36cm	36cm	36cm	35.5cm	35.5cm
Bust	109cm	108cm	106.5cm	104cm	103cm	101cm
Waist	97cm	89cm	90cm	91cm	90cm	91cm
Hips	111.5cm	104cm	105cm	103cm	103.5cm	105cm
Thighs	70cm	69cm	68cm	68.5cm	67.5cm	65.5cm
Measurements	Week 6	Week 7
Weight	75kg	75kg
Upper arms	32cm	31cm
Neck	36cm	36cm
Bust	99.5cm	101.5cm
Waist	87.5cm	87cm
Hips	104cm	104cm
Thighs	67cm	66.5cm

Week 7 energy intake

Saturday 12th Feb, 2011

(B) Cottage cheese and salad with LSA
(L) Roast chicken, avocado, olive and chickpea salad
(D) Fish curry

Snacks
3 coffees
chocolate
cherries & nuts

Week 6 weigh in "A little interesting"

Well I am somewhat bemused today to say the least. A 2kg loss after the week I had, I don’t get it, but I am not going to complain either. I can hardly believe that I am 1kg away from the 10kg mark. Whilst I am in the gloating mode, let me convert my loss to date to pounds, as it sounds even better 20 pounds…  OMGoodness!

Interesting though, it is hard to see the loss in pictures, which is a bit frustrating. Also, I have been chatting to some people and they thought that they were the same pictures every week. So I have decided to post the pictures again.

Bye for now…

Ok, so the above are today's pictures and below is the side on view starting from week 1 to week 6.

Week 6 energy intake

Before I start with the weeks energy intake, you should probably know about my energy output. At present I am walking, because it's all I can be bothered doing at the moment. My aim is to walk every day, but like most of you, things get busy so I don't stress if it doesn't happen as I know I will walk the next day. But that doesn't always pan out either, however on the third day I make sure I make time no excuses...

Saturday 5th Feb, 2011

(B) Yoghurt, fruit and LSA
(L) Smith's chips 2/3 of a large packet
(D) 3 sausages, potato salad and salad (Been craving sausages, I don't know why?)

Snacks
1 coffee
8 glasses of bubbles/wine (over a 10 hour period)

Week 5 weigh in "I'm still at a loss"

Good morning everyone, well it’s weigh in day again and gee how fast does it roll around? A 1kg loss this week is still good despite a nasty peanut blow out. I thought I was over that particular food obsession, in fact I think I ate equivalent to 2 days’ worth of energy in that episode. It only takes a small handful (I have large hands) to reach a few thousand kilojoules (not that I am counting)… I tried to remember that “the first one tastes as good as the last” piece of advice, but I just couldn’t stop they were so scrumptious. To make matters worse I was at someone else’s house, which made me think I should really share these peanuts with the people who own them, sorry Shane and Lez, but I guess they are better off being on my arse than yours, you have to look on the bright side of things J. Well, here is to next week, hopefully a week without peanuts.

Measurements/stats	Start	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5
Weight	84kg	80.5kg	81kg	79.5kg	78kg	77kg
Upper arms	34.5cm	33cm	33cm	33.5cm	32cm	31.5cm
Neck	36cm	36cm	36cm	36cm	35.5cm	35.5cm
Bust	109cm	108cm	106.5cm	104cm	103cm	101cm
Waist	97cm	89cm	90cm	91cm	90cm	91cm
Hips	111.5cm	104cm	105cm	103cm	103.5cm	105cm
Thighs	70cm	69cm	68cm	68.5cm	67.5cm	65.5cm