Week 5 - 2.4 Pounds of Weight Lost

Update for Week 5, ending 2013.02.08

We're now at the fifth week , with my official weigh-in at work of 207.0 lb (starting weight of 235.0 so a loss of 11.91%, so once again I'm in the lead). As  a group, we've lost 240 lb and a couple of milestones: I dropped out of the obese category (BMI 30.0) and Verlin is now under the 400 lb mark. As Verlin remarked "It's anyone's game (except Chris D.)..."

Name	Weigh In	Age	Height	BMI In	Current BMI	8-Feb	%
John Eaton (me)	235	50	70	33.7	29.7	207	11.91%
Carlos L	268.8	36	77	31.9	28.4	239.8	10.79%
Mike J	263.2	37	76	32	28.7	235.8	10.41%
Jeff B	282.2	45	70	40.5	36.6	255	9.64%
Kevin Li	236.8	40	72	32.1	29	214	9.63%
Stephen M	223.8	56	70	32.1	29.6	206	7.95%
Verlin H	434	37	75	54.2	49.9	399.6	7.93%
Steven T	272.6		76	33.2	30.9	254	6.82%
Alex V	209.6	32	72	28.4	27.3	201	4.10%
Chris D	224.6	40	70	32.2	31	216.4	3.65%
Shane M	246.4	41	72	33.4	32.3	238	3.41%
Patrick M	237.4	40	73	31.3	30.5	231.4	2.53%
Stan Y	249.6	45	69	36.9	36.3	245.6	1.60%
Jeff M	271.2			N/A	N/A	271.2	0.00%
Mark F	269.6		72	36.6	36.6	269.6	0.00%
Carey A	258.4			N/A	N/A	258.4	0.00%
Mark M	243		73	32.1	32.1	243	0.00%
Kevin Lu	178.6	27	71	24.9	24.9	178.6	0.00%
Total	100%					94.80%

At home, I forgot to weigh in on Friday, but did weigh in on the day before, so Thursday I was at 203.4 lb for a total loss of 23.2 lb (226.6-203.4). I've refactored the MyFitnessPal app for a new target of 195 lb - this has also reset my calorie target - previously 1360, it's now 1240 per day. I'm hoping to hit my new weight goal by the end of the competition in 3 weeks. The weigh-in at work is about 4 lb heavier than my home weigh in, so the work target is 199, which will place me at 15.32% by my math.

My progress via graphs generated from MyFitnessPal:

Note that first graph - the two negative columns that start the trend ended up that way when the application refactored my goals and reset my calorie goal. Looks like things a slowing down a little for me - I'd been pacing along at about 5 lb of weight loss per week - this past week I only dropped 2.4 lb so I believe my weight loss curve is beginning to flatten. I need to lose about 8.4 lb to get to my 195 lb goal so I still think it's doable at 3 lb per week. We'll see what Friday's weigh-in brings.

-- John