I knew I'd lost some weight, but I honestly didn't really know how much. There was a certain amount of anticipation in sitting there waiting to be weighed. For various reasons, there were just four of us this week, which meant that we each had to be more talkative.
The first task was to order our food packs. I decided to drop the chocolate shakes - they never seemed to mix well - and drop some of the Thai Chili and Vanilla. Instead, I got some mushroom soups, some chicken soups, some banana shakes and more bars - apparently the rasperberry and cranberry ones are nice, so I'm trying those.
Then we went up to get weighed. I was wearing roughly what I was last week - jeans and a t-shirt, so that wouldn't become a confounding variable. J asked me how I felt and I sort of ummed and erred a little. It's not that I've felt bad over the past week, but that I haven't felt significantly better, which isn't to say I felt bad either! I'd felt fine, but I hadn't really noticed any great difference, although possibly, I told her, my trousers felt a little less tight. You will understand, therefore, how gobsmacked I was when I discovered how much weight I'd lost.
Last week, I was 124.7 kg. This week, I was 118.1 kg! That is a reduction of 14.6 lbs, or just over a stone in a week! Simply incredible - I had no idea that I might be losing that much weight. J said that I must have been retaining a lot of fluid to drop that much in a week, and that I shouldn't expect so much next week. She suggested I might expect to see another couple of weeks where I lost about 8 lbs, but then it would slow down. Even so, that's a very encouraging start. My BMI has also gone down from 36.4 to 34.5, which is excellent news.
In the rest of the session we talked about the river analogy we made last week, but I'd like to save that for another post, because it's also our homework this week.
The first task was to order our food packs. I decided to drop the chocolate shakes - they never seemed to mix well - and drop some of the Thai Chili and Vanilla. Instead, I got some mushroom soups, some chicken soups, some banana shakes and more bars - apparently the rasperberry and cranberry ones are nice, so I'm trying those.
Then we went up to get weighed. I was wearing roughly what I was last week - jeans and a t-shirt, so that wouldn't become a confounding variable. J asked me how I felt and I sort of ummed and erred a little. It's not that I've felt bad over the past week, but that I haven't felt significantly better, which isn't to say I felt bad either! I'd felt fine, but I hadn't really noticed any great difference, although possibly, I told her, my trousers felt a little less tight. You will understand, therefore, how gobsmacked I was when I discovered how much weight I'd lost.
Last week, I was 124.7 kg. This week, I was 118.1 kg! That is a reduction of 14.6 lbs, or just over a stone in a week! Simply incredible - I had no idea that I might be losing that much weight. J said that I must have been retaining a lot of fluid to drop that much in a week, and that I shouldn't expect so much next week. She suggested I might expect to see another couple of weeks where I lost about 8 lbs, but then it would slow down. Even so, that's a very encouraging start. My BMI has also gone down from 36.4 to 34.5, which is excellent news.
WEIGHT
In the rest of the session we talked about the river analogy we made last week, but I'd like to save that for another post, because it's also our homework this week.
No comments:
Post a Comment