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Surprise. Surprise. With more calories consumed this week, and less exercise expended, I still managed to lose one pound. How, you ask? Well, to be quite frank, I’m going to have to guess.

As I “proved” in week 40 (of last year’s diet journal), there exists a delayed effect on weight loss (and gain) from one week to another. That is to say: after a week of sufficient exercise and/or appropriate calories (to lose weight), you may not see the results until the following week.

I believe that is what happened here. Last week I logged an average of 41 minutes of quality exercise but lost only 0.2 lbs. This week I managed to get in only 31 mins/day, and lost 1.0 lb. Does that mean I’m going to have to work extra hard on my weight loss plan for next week?

Tune in next week to find out…

P. S. The not-so-surprising lesson (re)-learned this week: when you step on that scale, just remember that the numbers might look better next week

Happy dieting.

This week’s surprising numbers:

• Average calories: 2048/day
• Average exercise: 31 mins/day
• Average exercise cals burned: 171/day
• Last week’s weight: 265.4 lbs
• Today’s weight: 264.4
• Weekly weight loss: 1.0
• Weight loss 2010: 12.6
• Average weekly weight loss: 0.9
• Total weight loss: 24.8