SHRINKING ASSETS TEAM CHAT - JUNE 2019
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Daily report:
6/20/19 Steps 15036 Run 6 km walk 3 km Ex.hr. 1 hour 45 min
Yesterday I rested fully.1 -
Steps
6/19
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Almost half pound! Good job!!LovebyDraug69 wrote: »Weekly weigh in on 6/20/2019
Previous Weight: 243.8
Current Weight: 243.4
Not as much as I want, but I know it is mainly due to not being able to walk/work out for another five weeks.
6/19 steps: 4326
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TEAM SHRINKING ASSETS
PLEASE WELCOME TO YOUR TEAM FOR THE JULY CHALLENGE
@makanacapellocullen AND @vmandere
PLEASE WELCOME THEM TO YOUR TEAM
THANKS
GREG2 -
Steps 6/19: 21,7051
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Weigh Day Thursday
PW: 258.8
CW: 260.8
Hoping it's just due to the salty food I ate the past couple of days 😐3 -
guitargirl55 wrote: »I seriously don’t get weight loss. I was on my game doing everything I was supposed to do for 2 weeks and no weight would come off. I got discouraged and fell off the bandwagon this weekend. I ate at an all you can eat buffet, and had a massive lasagna dinner, AND skipped my run. Monday and Tuesday I didn’t go crazy, but didn’t track very well and probably ate over my calorie goal.
Today I stepped on the scale just to see how bad the damage was, and I lost a pound! What?! I mean yay I am excited – but I just don’t understand.
Does anyone have any insight on this?
There's so many things that can explain weight variations like this - all completely speculative!
Firstly, while we track "weight loss", because it is an easy measure to track, what we really aim for is fat loss, which is harder to measure.
Weight is a mix of fat, muscle, bone, water, contents of your digestive tract, etc and can vary throughout the day significantly, let alone from day to day - with hydration being the biggest cause for variances. Weigh yourself, have a glass of water, weigh yourself again - did you just put on weight? Yes. Did you put on fat? No.
So when weight loss stalls for a few weeks, even though you're doing everything right, you might have lost some fat but retained water at the same time so your total weight is not changing.
For many women there are key points in their menstrual cycle where their weight loss stalls or they put on weight - for me it is in the half week prior to my period. Hormonal changes cause water retention or bloating that increases weight temporarily, then there is a drop of this excess weight after my period. Did your cycle factor into the recent stall and loss?
If you look at the hormonal model, sleep and stress also play a part in whether we gain or lose fat. If on your weekend off the bandwagon you relaxed, had fun, enjoyed yourself, perhaps this was a letting go of stress that had been holding you back? Perhaps you skipped your run to get extra sleep?
And maybe you didn't eat as much as you thought you did. Some types of foods are filling but not necessarily fattening. You might have felt "full" and assumed you ate way too much, but feeling full may have led you to eat fewer snacks or eat less at the next meal or be a bit better in food choices in the days after. Diets that are high in fat often work on this principle - fatty foods fill people up, so they don't feel as hungry, and don't eat at much in total. Conversely, perhaps some of the foods you usually eat, which fit within your calorie restricted diet, are more fattening than the foods you ate on the weekend - hence stall followed by loss?
Lastly, there is also the biggest conundrum of dieting: pretty much every diet ever studied that involves continuous calorie restriction results not just in weight loss but in a lowered metabolism. There are some small studies (not solid) that suggest calorie cycling might be able to counteract the drop in metabolism. One model of calorie cycling is to diet for a week, then eat at full BMR for a week; another is an alternate day cycle (diet one day, eat full BMR the next); the 5:2 diet (eat reasonably healthily 5 days without calorie counting, then very low calories for 2 days); intermittent fasting is another variance. In theory, when your body is continuously getting a reduced calorie load it lowers metabolism so that input=output, but when it has irregular amounts of calories (sometimes plenty, sometimes a deficit), it doesn't get used to it so keeps burning energy at a normal rate regardless of energy input.
Under this theory, if you have been continuously eating reduced calories for a while, perhaps your body had started to slow the metabolism, but in having a few days of increased calories, perhaps it gave your body a reason to boost its metabolism.
At the end of the day - the long term trend is the important one, rather than short term gains and losses.2 -
Navydaddjtc wrote: »
TEAM SHRINKING ASSETS
PLEASE WELCOME TO YOUR TEAM FOR THE JULY CHALLENGE
@makanacapellocullen AND @vmandere
PLEASE WELCOME THEM TO YOUR TEAM
THANKS
GREG
Welcome!2 -
overdue weights:
@DleeMcM
@iamworthy14
@mskatz1966
Thursday’s weights
@debbiemcgu
Friday’s weights
@boehle
@brittneyalley
@cre804
@guitargirl55
@lhughes2019
@lindamtuck2018
@mustb60
@Smart_Beautiful_and_Strong
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Mustb60
Weigh in Friday
PW 176.4 lbs
CW 176.4 lbs1 -
Great to have new friends in the group!!Navydaddjtc wrote: »
TEAM SHRINKING ASSETS
PLEASE WELCOME TO YOUR TEAM FOR THE JULY CHALLENGE
@makanacapellocullen AND @vmandere
PLEASE WELCOME THEM TO YOUR TEAM
THANKS
GREG0 -
PW 154.8
CW 153.0
Not sure if I logged my weight last week or not, sorry team captains! Well a better week this week but only just, I’m working on motivation and good food choices this week, old snacking habits have snuck in1 -
lhughes2019 wrote: »PW 154.8
CW 153.0
Not sure if I logged my weight last week or not, sorry team captains! Well a better week this week but only just, I’m working on motivation and good food choices this week, old snacking habits have snuck in
My boss told me something the other day.....make good bad choices. When you go out or even at home and you know you shouldn't get the Whopper with cheese and make it a double, but you definitely don't want the salad, get the Whopper Jr instead. It is still a "bad" decision, but it is definitely better than the other.
Good luck and remember....practice makes progress as there is no such thing as perfection.4 -
Almost half pound! Good job!!LovebyDraug69 wrote: »Weekly weigh in on 6/20/2019
Previous Weight: 243.8
Current Weight: 243.4
Not as much as I want, but I know it is mainly due to not being able to walk/work out for another five weeks.
6/19 steps: 4326
Thank you!1 -
Navydaddjtc wrote: »
TEAM SHRINKING ASSETS
PLEASE WELCOME TO YOUR TEAM FOR THE JULY CHALLENGE
@makanacapellocullen AND @vmandere
PLEASE WELCOME THEM TO YOUR TEAM
THANKS
GREG
Welcome to the team @makanacapellocullen and @vmandere0 -
Steps for 6/20/2019: 44292
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Steps
6/20
7,9772 -
I have had a pretty rough week with food and sleep.
I am rolling over last weeks weight for today.
Monday - Thursday this week, I have atleast gotten over 10k each day.
I think I need about 20k each day to get my 7 miles a day.
OH EM GEEEEEEE2 -
PW 214.6
CW 218.4
I really don’t know what to think about this. It is my first gain since I got serious about losing weight in February. My brain tells me that I am on vacation and had some crazy eating days last week. The emotional side of me wants to beat myself up. Well I am going to pout for a little while and then pat myself on the back for a job well done so far.4 -
So everyone, what’s your weekend plans?
This is my last weekend in Newfoundland and if it doesn’t rain I am going to walk the Manuel’s river trail. I did finally see some icebergs. I am having lunch with my brother today. This is the third time I got to see him so it has been nice.0
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