It's a New Phil, Week 9

By | March 3, 2006
2 Comments

Corrections

Had a little bit of good news this week when I got on the scale and saw that I had dropped three pounds. Then there was even more good news when Amanda, the physician’s assistant does the weekly honors on the scale, pointed out that I had gained three pounds last week, not four. So the trend has been reversed* and the damage has been undone.* Ao I am back to a total loss of 28 pounds!

I used Excel to create a faux control chart of my progress. For those of you well versed in statistical quality control (poor wretches!) the UCL and LCL stand for upper and lower calorie limit, not control limit. I haven’t figured any standard deviations. This data is not “valid.”

Still, using a reasonable man’s lower limit of 1500 and upper limit of 2200, this shows how well I’ve done. The number of spikes over the UCL accompany the plateau I just broke fairly consistently. There may be a causal relationship there, but of course we need more data. Click the image to see a legible version — two months of dieting.

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*I know, I know. For now. This is a one-week-at-a-time kind of a deal.

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Stephen Gordon

    I know you’re not a big believer of low carb dieting, but I wonder if you’d see faster results if your 1500-2200 calories were low carb.

  • https://www.blog.speculist.com Phil Bowermaster

    Well, I’ve lost a lot of weight going in the low carb route (in the past) and it always was quick. Quicker than this, that’s for sure. But I’m trying to get in the habit of eating the right way, as opposed to adopting one mode of eating for weight loss and then a completely different mode for life.