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Weekly Weigh-In 2006-04-16 April 16, 2006

Weight loss chart for 16 April 2006 All time weight loss up to 16 April 2006

I’ve now got a little body fat measurement gadget that I’m using to track my body fat percentage. It’s cheap and nasty and probably not very accurate, but it might be interesting to see how it changes over time. According to the gadget, my 0.21 kg weight loss this week was made up of 0.23 kg of fat loss, and 0.02 kg of fat-free-mass gain. I’ll be tracking these numbers in the Weekly Weigh-In posts from now on.

I wasn’t able to get much exercise in this week, mostly because we were busy getting things ready for a short (5 nights) holiday with some friends in the country.

We had H’s first birthday party on the weekend, and that caused a little bit of a blowout diet-wise. I was fairly careful, though, and it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.

For the week ahead, while we’re on holidays, I’m just going to forget about the diet and exercise program.

A week off the diet shouldn’t cause too much weight gain (and I’m not going to go totally nuts with the food), but I want to be able to enjoy myself. It’ll be Easter, we’ll be attending my friend’s daughter’s birthday party, my friend is a chef and will cook great meals, and we’ll be going to the town’s annual festival. That’s too much merriment to miss!

A week off the exercise plan shouldn’t cause any problem at all as far as my fitness goes. I’ll just enjoy the sleep-ins, and get back into the jogging when we get back.

I’ll probably put on a couple of kilos over the next week, but I now know I can lose them again within 2-3 weeks without too much stress. That’s the whole point of approaching weight loss as a lifestyle change rather than simply a diet that’s “on” or “off”. Once we return, my diet and exercise habits will be back to normal and my weight should continue trending down towards where it should be without me needing to get too concerned about it.

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