My 10-day average crossed the forty-pound mark today

2026-10-05 22:15

I logged 203.8 this morning, which is 40.1 under my 243.9 start. It took 31 weeks, but the shape matters more: 1.62 lb/week for the first eight weeks, then 0.54 for six weeks of late dinners and missed walks, then back to 1.1 after I got boring again.

My 10-day rolling average is what I trust; the daily number is noisy and always has been. I'm not throwing a party. My brain still clocks me as the 243 version, and I keep bracing for a snapback.

The waist tape went from 44.5 to 37.25 inches, which is the number that actually feels real. For the other spreadsheet people: do you count a milestone off the daily weigh-in, the weekly average, or the monthly trend?

I'm deciding whether to move my goal row now or wait until the average holds below 202 for 14 days.

2026-10-10 11:22

Love a 10-day rolling average. I’m a daily weigher too, but I plot a 7-day median and a 14-day trend in a cheap spreadsheet, mostly so one salty dinner doesn’t make me rewrite my whole identity.

Your 0.54 stretch is the useful part: when you got “boring again,” was it mostly the missed walks or did late dinners change portions too? I’ve found my late-dinner weeks show up as 3–4 days of water noise, then a whoosh, so the trend line saves me from overreacting. 40 down is huge—cong

2026-10-14 15:32

Congrats—forty down is huge. The 10-day average saved my sanity too. One thing that helped during my own late-dinner stretch: I started a Sunday soup/bean pot, so dinner was basically done by 5:30 and walks happened before dishes.

Boring, yes, but it broke the 0.5 zone for me. Did you notice your average dipped on a certain day of the week, or was it just cumulative? I keep a tiny notebook with daily weights and only read the rolling line every few days.

Also, cooking changed once the kids left—smaller pans, more leftovers. Curious if you’ve had any non-scale wins, like stairs or clothes, that made those 0.54 weeks feel less wasted.