Week 6 - a pattern emerges

So I'm finished with week 6, and other than a party on Saturday night where I gave myself permission to let loose (and felt the effects afterwards - more on that in an upcoming post), it was a good week.  The important thing isn't that I went off track for the party, but that I righted the ship the very next day and was on track the rest of the week.

I love data.  It's a main part of my job - looking for trends and patterns and coming up with plans to address what I'm seeing in my analysis.  With 6 data points, I'm seeing enough to call it a trend at this juncture.  This is very similar to my weight loss pattern 10 years ago.  Big loss one week, small gain or maintain the next.  As you can see from the graph below, that's exactly what's happening.  This is good information to have for anyone trying to lose weight.  Learn your body rhythms.  In my case this means not stressing over a small gain one week as long as the trend line continues in the right direction.  One thing I have to monitor and keep on top of is the "loosey goosey effect" of getting lazy the week after a big loss.  "I can do this because I just had a big loss and I'll make it up next week" can't be part of my thought process (and hasn't so far).














Here are the numbers:

Weight:  408.2 lbs
Delta from previous week:  +1 lbs
Total delta:  -20.4 lbs

Neck:  20.25 (+.5 inches)
Chest:  56 (0 inches)
Belly:  59 (0 inches)
Waist:  53 (+.5 inches)
Cumulative delta from previous week:  +1 inches
Total delta:  -11.55 inches