Blog
Sleep was the variable I kept ignoring
I tracked food, weight and training for months. The thing that best predicted a bad week turned out to be how I had slept before it.
The numbers that improved before the scale did
Weight was the slowest thing to respond. Resting heart rate, blood pressure and how far I could walk without noticing all moved first.
What a flat week actually means
A week without movement is not a failed week. It is usually a week where something real happened that the scale is not equipped to report.
Walking is not a consolation prize
An hour of brisk walking is a few hundred calories, and it is the thing I will still do on a day when I will do nothing else at all.
The drinks I stopped counting as nothing
A glass of juice is not a glass of water, and coffee stops being free the moment there is milk in it. Individually none of it is a large number.
Counting calories without weighing every meal
Estimates drift upward, quietly and in one direction. What fixed it was measuring a handful of repeated meals once, properly, instead of guessing at everything...
Why I weigh myself at the same time every day
Body weight moves by a kilo or more across a single day. A fixed time does not remove that swing - it stops the swing being mistaken for progress.
Six months in: what the chart does not show
The line goes down, which makes it look like a decision followed by a result. From the inside it was nothing of the sort.