Category: Weekly weigh-in
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Weigh-in week #9
I skipped weigh-in last week, having had a highly turbulent Friday 10th July. I try to standardise the 2 days prior to weigh-in so as to ensure that results are not skewed by something abnormal. It is basic scientific practice to isolate and control variables other than that you are interested in. The result for…
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Diet dashboard week #7
The changes week to week are small and incremental but over the course of several weeks they’re significant. Of the weight loss charted in the dashboard over 8lbs of the total loss has been body fat, I’ve gone from around 49lbs to 40lbs in seven weeks. The good news is the boring bit is done,…
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Results are in!: Diet week #7
In a chat with a friend yesterday I observed that the changes in my body are racing ahead of the changes in my weight. My waist in particular is shrinking rapidly whilst my biceps seem bigger, filling my shirt sleeves. Maybe this is wishful thinking but I’m seeing rewards and feeling progress and this is…
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Overview: diet week #6
As can be seen from the picture montage I had a great week. Extra retained water – probably due to the mini heat wave – stopped exceptional underlying change directly translating into equally exceptional overall loses. Most remarkably I lost 4.5lbs of body fat and gained 1lbs of muscle in a single week! These are…
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Results are in!: diet week #5
Exactly 1 stone lost in 5 weeks! If you had have offered me that at the beginning of the journey I would have snapped your hand off, so it’s paradoxical that I feel a little disappointed week to week. 1.8 + 1.8 + 1.6 lbs losses (the last 3 weigh-ins) isn’t much to be excited…
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Results are in: diet week #4
This week seemed doomed to be my first stall. Firstly it was a 6 day week (for boring reasons I won’t go into), secondly it was a lazy week through no fault of my own. Last week I burned 5,000kcals less than usual, which seemed likely to have spill-over effects. Moreover, this week has been…
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Results are in!: Diet week #3
This week concluded with a modest loss: 1.8lbs. Although that’s below target I crossed a key psychological threshold of moving out of the 15 stone bracket. I’ve been over 15 stone four times in my life and it generally corresponded with things going wrong. Within the 14 stone bracket – given my large body structure…
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Results are in!: Diet week #2
On the US TV show “The Biggest Loser” (a wildly over-the-top but thoroughly entertaining weight loss contest), I remember week 2 as always being the sticky week. Contestants would lose half a stone or more in week 1 and then lose 2 pounds or less in week 2. In the show it was normally explained…
Dr Martin James 