Droopy's weekly weigh-in thread [View All]

I started a thread like this on another site some time ago. I weigh myself every week and then check in. It has proved to be a valuable tool for achieving my weight loss goal. I still have a long way to go, but I have made great progress. I will reproduce here the results of my weekly weigh-ins from the other board and then I will continue to check in here every Friday morning.

I started out at 287.4 pounds- the heaviest I've ever been. I looked up how many calories it would take for a moderately active, 5'10", 35 year old man of that size to maintain his weight and it turned out to be about 3500 calories a day. So my plan was very simple and has proven to be very effective. I drink nothing but water, consume very little sugar, and I eat no more than 2000 calories a day. I get a lot of exercise at work. I'm a trucker and I have to hand unload a 28' semi trailer every night. I figured that was enough exercise to start with. So I embarked on my journey to get down to 200 pounds.

I hope that you all will give me your input because that is what makes a thread like this work, for me anyway. I don't want to let anyone down and I really look forward to my weekly weigh-ins to see how good I've done and report back to you. I will list each week here and then for further check-ins I will reply to this thread. Here we go.

Week 1: 281.6- I lost 5.8 pounds the first week. I found myself hoping I could do that every week, but I knew that wouldn't be the case. But there is a bigger surprise here in the early going and I will relate that here in a minute.

Week 2: 278.6- 3 pounds down that week for a total of 8.8 lost.

Week 3: 277.6- 1 pound down that week for a total of 9.8. I was kind of disappointed that week, but I told myself that it was still progress.

Week 4: 268.2- That's right. I lost 9.4 pounds that week for a total of 19.2. I have no idea how that is possible and I kind of expected that some of it would be coming back the next week, but that proved not to be the case.

Week 5: 266.8- 1.4 pounds down for the week for a total loss of 20.6

week 6: 264.8- 2 pounds down for the week for a total loss of 22.6

Week 7: 262.4- 2.4 pounds down for the week for a total loss of 25

Week 8: 260.8- 1.6 pounds down for the week for a total loss of 26.6

Week 9: I was very bad that week and I did not have the heart to step on the scales and see a gain. So I didn't weigh myself.

Week 10: 258.0- 2.8 pounds down from 2 weeks ago for a total loss of 29.4. I guess I should have weighed myself the week before. I might have been surprised.

Week 11: 255.4- 2.6 pounds down for the week for a total loss of 32

Week 12: 252.8- 2.6 pounds down for the week for a total loss of 34.6

Week 13: 251.8- 1 pound down for the week for a total loss of 35.6

Week 14: 248.0- 3.8 pounds down for the week for a total loss of 39.4

That's where I stand now. Like I said, I will post in response to this original thread my weekly results. So stay tuned and I hope that we can inspire each other. :)