It looks like progress, but numbers can and do deceive! Let’s take a look.
First, the trends for the month:
- First week: Going down, to a low of 170.3 pounds.
- Second and third week: Going up, with a sudden 2 pound increase overnight that put me at 173.5 pounds. Yikes!
- Fourth week: Going down again, ending just under where I started for the month.
The worst stat is body fat, which, if accurate, is up by 0.5%. It tends to bounce up and down a lot. I also started the month with a larger-than-normal weight gain. I thought, “Getting under 172.1 pounds will be easy!” and for the first week, that seemed to the case. But then stress and a weird sort of ennui I am still figuring out, settled in and I saw comfort, mostly in cookies.
You have probably noticed there are not a lot of diet plans prominently featuring cookies. Unless the plan is to gain a lot of weight, with most of it being fat.
The cookies are gone now. I have yogurt and tofu in the fridge. I will try to work through things mentally, which will also help with things physically. I at least kept up running consistently through the month, even if it didn’t result in any slimming (to be fair, I’d have to run a lot, like, a LOT to overcome a bag of cookies).
Here’s to October being a more slimming experience. I’ll just pretend Halloween candy doesn’t exist.
Stats:
January 1, 2026: 169.4 pounds
Current: 171.9 pounds
Year to date: Up 2.5 pounds
September 1: 172.1 pounds
September 30: 171.9 pounds (down 0.2 pounds)
Body fat:
September 1: 26.2%
September 30: 26.7% (up 0.5%)
Skeletal muscle mass:
September 1: 30.1 kg
September 30: 30.1 kg (unchanged)
BMI:
September 1: 24.6
September 30: 24.6 (unchanged)
Historical: January 1, 2022: 182.8 pounds