For Gen

Gen asked asked us to post our weight loss on a month to month basis so here we go:

• PreOp (10 days): -15
• Rest of Nov (10 days):  Zero
• Dec: -15
• Jan: -8.5
• Feb: -10
• Mar: -6.5
• April: -3 (so far)

My average weight loss per week including pre-op is 2.67. Not including pre-op it is 2.15. Over the last 4 weeks it is 1.75. 

I haven't got to the 6 month mark yet so I won't be able to shed info on that, but I am starting to see a slow down now (4.5 months).  It was really hard to lose that 6.5 pounds in March and I bounced plus/minus 5-8 pounds throughout the week.  A couple weeks I would have shown a gain on my charts, but I am not strict with Sunday being my official weigh in day (except for challenge results).  If I am down on Saturday or Monday I consider that my offical weekly weight. 

This month has been a little easier, but only because I really pushed up my exercise towards the end of March.  I am still doing good and the intensity level I am going at seems to work really well for me right now.  I personally think the reason I slowed down is because I didn't ramp up my exercise enough as I lost weight.  Even though I was doing the same amount of work, my body didn't burn as many calories since I was lighter and more fit.  As time goes on I am not sure if I will be able to continue to ramp up my exercise at the same rate as my body seems to need to continue the 2+ pounds a week.  I expect that will cause my averages to fall, but as long as I am still losing a pound on average and pushing myself on the exercise side I am hoping to be ok with that.  I am not sure if I will be once it happens, but I don't know if I am willing to kill myself with excercise either - the C25K program might just do that as it is :)