My weight has bounced around a lot this week. I was moving from one side of town to another and had a tremendous amount of physical workouts each day. I stayed on the diet with only a few unavoidable meals that had some carbs. I am also testing a fiber cleanser for intestinal health which may be throwing the other parts of the diet off. Once again, my theory of diet and exercise has been proven! That theory: if you just want to loose weight then diet only. You will not loose as fast if you add exercise too soon.

Its better of course to diet and add exercise but I feel it is more goal oriented to drop the pounds first then go work out. Each week I have had physical workouts; I’ve either gained or lost very little weight.

OK now for the numbers, which are not all bad…My weight this week is 165 up two pounds form the week before. This is truly my plateau for weight loss, I’ve been floating around this number for weeks! That said, I checked my measurements and my stomach shrank a half inch, I am now at 16% body fat. Big improvement over 22% where I started.

It’s the difference in having 26 pounds of fat (still need to loose more of that) vs. almost 39 pounds when I started. This reaffirms that the weight I am loosing is fat and not muscle, so it’s all good.

Here is the rest of the measures, which are up and down like crazy from last week.

Measurements for Week 8 Feb 19 2006

Height 5-8
Weight 165.00 up two (sigh)
Stomach 33.5 down .25
Thigh 21 up .50
Chest 40.50 up .50
Bicep 12.50 same
Waist 32.00 down .50
Wrist 7 up .5
Ankle 8.5 up .25
Neck 15.5 down .25
Body Fat .16% down 1%

With all the lifting and walking I did while moving, I think many of these numbers may shift over the next week. We will see…