I've recently been thinking that I should be increasing the step target that I have set. Basically I've been chickening out from doing it as I've only just started hitting the existing step target more regularly and not sure if I could actually achieve a higher target.
From looking at the graph that I do each week the steps and calories burnt follow each other fairly closely which is no real surprise but I wonder if I start using weights again if the calorie burn will go up or not, I may not be getting my heart rate up by lifting weights so the calorie burn may not be there. I did read somewhere that doing weights isn't really the best thing to be doing when you are trying to lose weight.
I've also been wondering about the weight I've been losing. Last week is a good example, I weighed 109kg on Thursday Morning and was still 109kg on Sunday morning, but the previous Thursday I was 110kg. I never ended up buying new scales that would have made it easier to track my weight, but I'm thinking that maybe I'll weigh myself daily this week and see if I can see if it is a gradual weight loss throughout the week or if there is a particular day where I seem to lose more weight. It may be interesting to see if I lose the weight in the morning after a big day at work, or if it is when I've had a quieter day at work but then come home and gone for a longer walk to make up the steps for the day. Unfortunately the scales I have aren't too granular so it will be hard to monitor especially as I'm losing only about a kilo in a good week.
Kmart have some smart scales that link to a bluetooth app and seem to measure in tenths of kilos (eg 109.3 kg), so I think that I'll go and grab them sometime this week and start weighing in daily for a week or two. I don't want to become fixated on the scales either but that's all I really have to go by unless I start measuring my waste line.... which is something that I guess I could do every month.
Sometimes when I write these posts I come up with more ideas and more goals for myself then I probably should.
Bomber
Is too much data a bad thing?
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