Posts Tagged ‘scales’

Week 2 Progress

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Well it’s the end of week 2 and I’ve just updated my progress charts. The on I’m going to put up here is my weight loss one…

As you can see on the right my weight has gone up 0.5kg.  Very annoying.  At the moment I’m willing to let it slide a little bit but not for long.  I’ll be really disappointed if it goes up again over the next week.

As for the rest of my measurements I think they’re still bedding in and it’ll be interesting to see how they develop.  There’s obviously a lot more error that can occur in these types of measurement and I still need some practise at taking them.

What else has been going on this week?  Well the gym work has continued.  I managed 3 weights sessions and 1 step class this week.  I wanted to get out on my bike this weekend but my improving of the kitchen has got in the way and I’ve been fitting skirting boards and sealing worktops instead.  The main thing that happened this week though was my new scales arrived.


I picked them up from Amazon for about £12 and they are pretty neat.  What I’ve been doing over the past couple of weeks is just generally increasing the amount of food I’ve been having but I haven’t taken another measurement to see if I’m hitting the right amount of calories, protein, carb and fat.  These little bad boys are going to help me do that.

One of the things I was looking for in a set of scales was the abiity to easily tare them.  I wanted to be able to put a bowl on and zero the scales, then add cereal, take a note and zero the scales, then add milk, take a note and zero the scales.  It’ll make it so much easier to count calories compared to trying to weigh everything with the old school scales we had.

My goals for next week… Get in some good weights sessions.  It’s my final week of “beginners” weights so I want a good one before I move on to more advanced weight-lifting stuff.  I also want to get rid of that extra 0.5kg I put on.  Other than that it would be nice to see the general trends start to develop.

Wish me luck.

Sid.

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I Love My Scales – Part 1

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Right now I have two sets of scales in my life, my food scales and the scales I stand on.  I love them both.

If I had to rank them in order of the amount I love them then the food scales are just the tiniest little bit ahead of my other scales.  The food scales have never delivered bad news.

So why do I love them so?  I guess it’s not really love, they are inanimate objects after all, but at the minute I rely them.

The scales I stand on help me keep track of my progress.  That’s really important to me.  Without being able to track progress I have no idea whether what I’m doing is right or wrong.  It seems an obvious thing to track, weight, but after chatting to a few people I find it kind of weird how some people abuse their scales.  Some people weigh themselves everyday, I even know someone who weighs herself more than once a day.  Some people look down and then try and ignore what they see.  Some people take their shoes off, some people leave them on.  The list goes on. I myself am quite obsessive about how I weigh myself.  It’s the scientist in my…I like to be accurate.

I weigh myself at most twice a week.  If you weigh yourself more often then I think you can lose sight of any progress.  By weighing myself just the once or twice then I can see the difference.  At most it’s recommended you lose no more than 0.5lbs per day, about 250g.  No scales will be able to measure that and even if they could it means that a quick trip to the toilet could really sway your results.  That’s why I go for just the once or twice a week.

I also weigh myself at the same time of the same day every week.  First thing on a Monday.  I get up, head downstairs, pop to the loo and, to avoid the whole shoes on shoes off debate, weigh myself naked.  (Sorry for the imagery people.  Maybe I was a little too descriptive!)  I have often thought that I should not weigh myself on Monday.  The problem I have with Monday is that if I have a bad weekend it shows, much like in week 7.

My weight feeds into my tracker, my tracker helps me see when I can tick off my goals and my goals help keep me motivated.

My food scales help me in other ways but that’s another post.

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A cheeky little weight in.

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

I’m always very keen to have a little weigh in every now and then, just to see how I’m getting on.  I like to know I’m approaching my goals etc and that I’m not gradually slipping.

I know some people who weigh themselves religiously everyday and they’re not even on a diet!  I try to avoid weighing myself everyday though as I think you quickly lose sight of hat you’re doing.  I don’t think you’ll ever lose enough weight in a day to really make any difference to the number.  Despite having the urges to weigh myself I much prefer to keep it to once a week so that I can actually see the difference.

This morning though I couldn’t resist.  For some reason I felt a lot lighter and I wanted to see if I’d cracked the 110kg mark.  I was 110kg bang on.

I can’t wait to hit 109kg and I’m pushing hard for it.  It’ll be the lightest I’ve been for over 12 years meaning I’ll be in better shape now than I was when I was 18!

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