Winter Weight Reduction (Page 4)

That's AWESOME!.  Congratulations.  Things like this are what makes it all worth while.  You should be very proud of yourself.

Are you weighing your food or guessing?  Have you tried using an app like MyFitnessPal?  It's a pain, but it helps.  I've been using it daily for several months now.  Most days I log everything, and I mean everything.  Even that 1 mint I took from the office candy dish.

This is very true for me as well.  I have a bad habit of weighing myself to often and notice this.  My weight fluctuates a lot.  Especially if I weigh my self before a early AM workout. 

You need another measure, plain and simple. The scale is gonna fluctuate, that is a fact. Have you taken body measurements? Have you taken body FAT measurements? Can your run farther, swim farther, bike farther, feel better, sleep better? ALL of these things are important. I have a check list that I use (mostly mental now, but still). When I get upset that I am not losing wt fast enough (or at all), I remind myself that I am a smaller size, I can run 6 miles without much problem (more if needed) and I used to be able to run not at ALL. I have measurements that have gone down, I have more muscle and less fat. These things are real and they help to keep me motivated along my goal.

1/28  205.2

2/2   203.2

Quite amazing watching the scale go up and down all week again, even saw 199 on it yesterday morning.  For me it helps having a weekly "standard" to look at, to see a trend going in a certain direction (hopefully down).  I think it refocuses my efforts.  Otherwise, the last few months I've just hovered between 200 and 205

I did have 4 beers yesterday and chips and guac, and then a not particularly healthy dinner (but not calorie laden)

Here is my theory. It seems most everyone was up this week. I am blaming the moon. The phase of the moon is pulling down on the scale. I do not care if there is any scientific validity, I am going with it

Can you tell I was up a pound as well this am? The weekend was not great nutrition wise, what with going to a wine dinner Friday and two wineries on Saturday, plus a 43 m bike ride which is my longest in a LONG time.

It is the moon pulling at that extra water weight, I tell you!

Well to be technical your logic does have some merit depending on the orientation of the moon to when you weigh your self.  Because every object that has mass pulls on every other object that has mass in the universe.  The moon directly above you?  You should be lighter.  Different orientation?  You should be heavier.  I could do some calculations (could be fun!).  .

Sadly, the moon is waxing, so it is getting bigger and exerting more pull. NO WAIT... I weigh during the day, the moon is on the other side of the planet, so it's pull is DOWN on the scale! There..... I am right! I knew it

So I had some free time and I did some calculations.  For each kg you weigh you would be approximately 32.113mg heavier if the moon was on the opposite side of the earth and 34.314mg lighter if directly overhead.  There were a few assumptions made in my calculations . 

I need to get a life... Triathlons and math I'm a man of much excitement.