Week 8

The below figures are obtained using an Omron Fat Loss Monitor Scale, HBF-400. I have no clue if it's the best one, but it's the one I have at home.

Goals

Weight 240 ?

%bodyfat lower 20's

BMI lower 20's

3/15/2010

weight 300.8

%bodyfat 45.9

BMI 38.6

3/22/2010

weight 298
loss of 2.8

%bodyfat 48.9
increased 3.0

BMI 38.3
decreased 0.3

3/29/2010

weight 295.4
loss of 2.6 pounds

%bodyfat 49.6
increased .7

BMI 37.9
decreased .4

4/5/2010

weight 299.6
gained 4.2

% body fat 47.1
decreased 2.5

BMI 38.5
increased 0.6

4/12/2010

weight 299.6
same

% body fat 47.8
increased .7

BMI
38.5
same

4/19/2010

weight 299.2
down .7

%body fat 48.00
increased .2

BMI
38.4
down .1

4/23/2010

weight 297.8
down 1.4
after 6-1/2 weeks down 3 pounds

%body fat 46.3
down 1.7
after 6-1/2 weeks up .4

BMI
38.2
down .2
after 6-1/2 weeks down .4

5-5-2010

weight 296.4
down 1.4 from last time
down 4.4 from the start

fat %
47.2
up .9 from last time
up 1.3 from the start

BMI
38.1
up .1 from last time
down .5 from the start

While it bothers me when the fat percentage goes up, as long as the weight loss is more than the fat percentage gain, I'm coming out ahead. I hope. Obviously, as I lose weight, there is less of me to measure against the fat to calculate a percentage. So any weight loss and / or muscle gain will vary the fat percentage. Therefore I am not too worried about it at this point. Plus I realize that some of that is loose body skin that is sagging / hanging, and won't go away without surgery.

No major problems on the heart monitoring as of yet. I have transmitted data several times, but most of the times I did not have any incident or symptom to report, and it often occurred without me know when or where. Several times were when I was asleep. Two were at some point during the day, but I never heard the signal, but had been in some noisy places each day.

However, upon return from the Seminar Week, I did experience Tuesday morning a problem. About 1am I awoke to my heart beating faster, as though I'd been running a race. I did record the event, as it did not do so automatically. This kept up for an hour, so I recorded the event 3 more times over that hour. While it did slow down after that initial hour, it was still at an elevated rate after that for awhile. In short, I did not get any sleep from 1am to 3am, and not much after that.

This obviously was not enough to cause the PA to call me for any immediate action, so that is the good news. Hopefully he will be able to determine something from that event, and any other transmissions, as to what may be causing these incidents, and if they are correctable, even by minor surgery. I finish up wearing the monitor this coming weekend, and then return it. After that I expect to hear from the cardiologists office to schedule a consultation, at least to explain what they have found, if anything, and what future action they recommend.

Other than that, it's been a great almost 2 weeks since the last report. Las Vegas was a good trip - the seminar was definitely worthwhile. A whole week in one is a bit much, but it was very in depth at times, and more of a skimming of material at times, but overall quite informative and helpful. I'm glad I went.

The second weekend of the trip I went up to South Lake Tahoe for some R & R. I had not been up there in years, so that was a wonderful weekend. They had some snow the week previous, though few signs of it were left in Stateline on the ground. There was still a lot of snow on the mountains, though skiing had closed just the weekend before, as the bottoms of the ski areas were definitely exposing a lot of rock and grass. Still, a great re-visit over all, and well worth it.