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Old July 11th, 2009, 07:18 PM posted to alt.support.diet.weightwatchers,alt.support.diet
Brenda Silvey
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Default Doug's Week 1 status report (again)

Hi Lee,

It's certainly been a long time since I've been on here. Nice to
see a few of you are still here.

~Brenda~


"Stormmee" wrote in message
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I am so glad you are starting again, good for you, Lee
"doug lerner" wrote in message
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Seems like old times. sigh

Well, there's nothing to do but try again after losing 101.6 lb and
then regaining it all is there?

So I started my low-calorie, WW-like diet again last week and just
finished my 1st week.

Some daily stats to get me back in the journaling mood:

7/1 126.4 kg 1700 calories
7/2 126.4 kg 2019 cal
7/3 125.8 kg 1668 cal
7/4 126.2 kg 1303 cal
7/5 125.6 kg 1271 cal
7/6 125.8 kg 1714 cal
7/7 125.4 kg 1834 cal
7/8 125.4 kg (end of week 1)

Loss for week: 1.0 kg = 2.2 lb
Average daily calories: 1644 cal (just under my goal of keeping under
1700 cal/day on average)

I use a weekly "bonus calorie" buffer during the week to draw from and
add back to so I don't have to strictly observe the 1700 limit on any
particular day. That is psychologically helpful.

Notes:

1. The first few days were, as usual, sort of hard. Then I fell into a
routine and the last 4 days I didn't mind staying on the diet.

2. I didn't do any exercise to speak of. I know I need to add that in.

3. Since I lost 2.2 lb that means a deficit of 3500 calories x 2.2 lb
= 7700 calories for the week = a reduction of 1100 calories per day
from my "maintenance weight." So my maintenance calories with my
current metabolism must be about 2744 calories per day. At a starting
weight of 126.4 kg = 278 lb that means I currently need only about 9.9
calories per lb to maintain my weight. That is fairly low. If I can do
exercise and build up some muscle mass that should help improve my
metabolism and maybe I can get that up to like 12 calories per lb per
day, which should help improve weight loss.

doug