Week 5 - Take That Obesity!

Weigh in day today.  After what I thought was a surprising weight loss last week, I was hoping that I was just holding close with a small loss if possible was my goal as I felt that perhaps my loss contained a fair bit of water as I do find it hard to re-hydrate after my big Wednesdays of training.  Imagine when I hopped on the scales this morning to find a 1.6kg loss staring back at me!  Even my average weight loss for the week based on daily weigh ins was 1.4kg.  Once again there will be an element of water in that loss and it is the lightest I have been all week, if not by much.  So again this week I set my eyes on maintaining this loss over and above any further significant moves on the scales next week.  In all seriousness, if I crack 500 grams next week, I will be more than happy.

Make sure you re-hydrate!

On the issue of re-hydration, I heard back from my dietician this week after sending her my daily weight records for the week after mentioning my concerns about taking on fluids after exercise.  The example that I used was my weight difference after a Saturday MMA session.  After my session I was a full 1kg lighter.  That, even after having taken in a litre of water, 2 bananas and an orange.  Concervitively I would say that puts me 2.5kg lighter through fluid loss.  Whilst I wouldn't use the lighter weight for record keeping purposes, it is ideal for understanding how much fluid I need to replace after a given workout.

Contrary to the belief I had held, that for every kilo of weight lost in exercise, 1 litre of water should be consumed to replace that which has been lost.  The dietician however informed me that for every kilo, I should consume 1.5 litres of water.  Obviously that doesn't all need to be done at one time.  Rather I would need to add it to the 3 litres I have on days where I don't exercise and consume it throughout the day as a whole.  With that in mind, I will be concentrating more on my water intake to ensure it is spot on and my weight loss is genuine.

In bigger news, my number on the scales this morning was 110.9kg.  Nothing special about that right?  WRONG!  As of this morning, my old nemesis, the Body Mass Index (BMI) can no longer look at me a laugh maniacally as it calls me obese.  That's right, I am now officially, just overweight and not obese.  Whatever theory you hold about the BMI (I have my own as I discussed here - My earlier post) and how much stock you put in it, I can never help feeling somewhat upset when those statistics on the TV come up about how fat we are as a nation and whatever percentage of people in the country they say this week is overweight or obese.  Whilst I know that I still fall into those statistics as they are based on the BMI, I am just so much happier knowing that I am not one of those in the obese column.  Can you blame me?

Needless to say I am feeling pretty good about the results this week.  They were achieved even without my weekly rowing as I have been carrying a wrist injury that forced me to give it up, much to my disappointment.  I guess you cannot have everything.  Feeling good and looking forward to the week ahead.

*NB - My standard disclaimer.  This photo is not of me.  It has given me a bad case of hair envy though.