Week in Review (week ended 07.02.2005)

IT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO FOCUS ON THE BIG PICTURE RATHER THAN THE NOISE OF DAY-TO-DAY

See, Exhibit A, for the underlying data discussed in this entry.

Weight
The long and short of it is this: during the past 26 weeks I have dropped from a moving average weight of 263 pounds to 222.5 (actual waking weight of day = 219.5; so almost 50 pounds). 41 pounds / 26 weeks = 1.58 pound loss per week.

Although it's surely not a straight line curve -- much more weight lost in the first three months (~30 pounds) than the last three months (~12 pounds). In fact, in the period 05.02.2005 to 07.02.2005, I have reduced from 230.8 to 222.5, roughly 8 pounds. This is close to 1 pound per week -- which is the recommendation. Nonetheless, I honestly think I can do better -- and that I can increase that number. Certainly to 1.5 pounds per week -- which is slightly more than 6 pounds per week.

Body Fat Numbers
The body fat numbers -- both Tanita Scale and Calipers -- are interesting as well.

Tanita
Most notably (or selectively) -- I can see that in the past month my weighted average body fat has decreased from 24.5% to 20.5% -- a significant decrease. However, From May to July (60 days) -- the drop has only gone from 21.7% to 20.5%.

Calipers
In the meanwhile, the body fat calipers hasn't moved much:

05: 25.46%
06: 25.60%
07: 25.46%

[These are all weighted averages].

The saving grace here is that the actual measurement yesterday was 24.73% (but today slightly higher at 25.824%). It might well be that measuring >20% (or even >23%) -- is difficult with calipers. I seem to recall the calipers get much more accurate below 20%.

Nonetheless, via calipers, I'm hovering at around 25% -- despite the fact that I have lost something like 8-15 pounds. That sure seems odd. Indeed, the fact that my body measurements have decreased over the past two months (i.e., 1" from my (upper) waist; and 0.5inches from my chest) -- it seems like this measurement should have converted into lower body fat measurements via calipers. BTW, I can also tell that my pants (and shorts) -- are getting loose on me too.

EXERCISE;

The exercise numbers for June have been pretty good as well.

Swim: 4,950 yards
Bike: 219.5 miles
Run: 32.0 miles
Row: 154,509 meters

Lots of rowing which seems pretty good -- (unless I'm not rowing hard enough and it's lulling me into a sense of more exercise than I'm actually doing. This seems unlikely though -- rowing is a tough sport -- and I rowed for 11.5 hours for the month -- which is a lot of hours . . . a few hours a week in addition to the additional stuff I've done. . . ).

So it appears June was my biggest rowing month yet -- but also my smallest swimming month (swim 4,950 in June; in March I swam 18,690 yards -- 3.5 times more than I swam this month -- but this was totally predicted given my schedule of work/school). Hard to swim at night when you have class from 6-9p MOn-thur :-).





EXHIBIT A

Review of the past six months, by the numbers:

07.02.2005
06.02.2005
05.02.2005
04.02.2005
03.02.2005
02.02.2005
01.02.2005*

* Note: Some measurements are not precisely measured on the 2nd -- I use the closest date of measurement (for instance, I typically measure circumferences on Saturdays -- and those Saturdays don't match up to the second of the month).

07.02.2005
weight = 222.5
bfat = 20.5 (tanita);
measurements:

B: 13.00;
T: 23.25;
upw: 40.00;
low: 37.75;
c: 43.00; and
N: 15.75

06.02.2005

5-day moving avg weight = 225.4;
body fat (tanita) = 24.5%

B: 13.00;
T: 23.00;
upw: 41.00;
low: 39.00;
c: 43.00; and
N: 16.00


05.02.2005

5-day moving avg weight = 230.8
body fat (tanita) = 21.7%

B: 14.00
T: 23.00
upw: 41.00
low: 38.75
c: 43.00
N: 16.00


04.02.2005

5-day moving avg weight = 219.5
body fat (tanita) = 23.4%

B: 13.5
T: 24.0
upw: 42.0
low: 39.5
c: 44.0
N: 16.5


03.02.2005

5-day moving avg weight = 234.0
body fat (tanita) = 24.8%

B: 14.00
T: 24.25
upw: 42.50
low: 40.00
c: 44.50
N: 16.50


02.02.2005

5-day moving avg weight = 245.6
body fat (tanita) = 28.6%

B: 15.0
T: 24.5
upw: 45.0
low: 42.3
c: 46.0
N: 16.8


01.02.2005*

5-day moving avg weight = 263.3
body fat (tanita) = 36.8%

B: 14.75
T: 23.75
upw: 45.00
low: 43.00
c: ?
N: 17.50