Oops ! Missed end-of-week-report yesterday .. again. So let's catch up.

Friday's data :

Calories : 2137. No comment.

Exercise : 45 mins on bike.

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Saturday's data (10 October) :

Calories : 1945 which, alas, includes a Mars bar at football match in coastal Essex.

Exercise : 30+ mins running, yes, despite the away football match.

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Finally got around to weighing myself and it is a disappointing 190 lbs. So no apparent progress over this last two weeks. Yields BMI of 26.6.

My spreadsheet, which now tracks both calories intake and exercise energy use suggests I should be down to 188 lbs by now. Why is it not so then ? I scratched my head and came up with a list of reasons .. excuses if you wish :

1) underestimating calorific content of food consumed (quite possible);

2) missing recording some food items (highly likely, given I do not dash to the PC every time I take a mouthful);

3) increased muscle mass due to increased exercise (possible, attractive even, but extremely difficult to estimate);

4) exercise not as effective at consumption of energy as I think (also possible).

All in all, perhaps I should not be too surprised at the scales' verdict. I know what I need to do; it is simple, but not easy. Just got to persevere.

And so week 129 starts with renewed vigour.

ChrisITF