I'm actually 4lb under my target weight today (slightly fortuitous freak fluctuation) but this is the first time my seven-day moving average from the Libra app is below my target weight.
I've gone from 14 stone to 10st 3.2lb (actually 9st 13½lb today), or 196lb to 143lb, or 89kg to 65 kg.
graph from late 2019 to present (sadly never exported from MFP the data from late 2016 when I started at 14 stone)
There's a big blip from going on holiday to San Diego in February (remember international leisure travel anyone?) and then a huge blip from when a series of running injuries broke the "calories out" side of the equation at the same time as lockdown blues broke the "calories in" side.
The final 23lb push started at the beginning of September and I set myself a tentative goal date of Christmas Day, so I'm actually one full day early. So this is both a diet of 3¾ stone i.e. 52½lb or 23.8kg in four years, and 23lb or 10.4kg in just under four months.
Over the years I've used various strategies. I got kicked into action by some (kind-hearted) fat shaming: my friends started asking when my baby was due … and I'm a bloke!
Strict calorie counting using what I termed "MyFatnessPal" worked for a while but it's too much admin work for me to be sustainable long term. If I had to eat lunch in a rush and didn't have time to look everything up, I'd just give up counting for the day and then be out of control. And I mostly ate lunch in the staff canteen which wasn't easy to find calories for.
Increasing exercise freed me from having to track calories. I got my running back up to 40mi/week or 65km/week and found that all I needed to lose weight was to make vaguely healthy choices. However this all goes wrong if I get injured and can't run for a bit, especially when the gym at work still hasn't reopened after the pandemic hit. I regained 19lb (that's why it's called Covid-19 right?) this summer. The UK government initiative at the end of the summer to get people back into restaurants "eat out to pork out" didn't help either.
The final phase of the diet this autumn/winter has been a combination of building to running again slowly (only at 16mi/week 26km/week currently) but also walking for an hour (sometimes several hours) on non-running days, eating low-carb and high-protein with mountains of frozen veg, sometimes manually counting calories for a few days to get back on track after any wobbles, and, most importantly, weighing myself every single day.
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