I Lost My Fitbit :(

So sad news: today I lost my Fitbit! :(

I suspect I knocked it out of my pocket as I was walking to work.  I realized it was gone when I got home during my lunch break.  So I went back to work to look for it (and ask if anyone had seen it), but had no luck.  After work I retraced all my steps, and no luck with that either.  So no more step tracking for me right now. :(

Weight Update for July 19, 20, and 22

So last weekend I didn't really watch what I ate.  I went camping with my dad for a night, during which we ate a lot of pepperoni and other meat (I actually felt a bit sick by the end of it - it's more meat than I normally eat).  Before that I didn't track what I had eaten (I did a basal test on Saturday afternoon, then was at my parents for dinner); a few days after I got back from camping I went out to eat with friends (I stuck to the salad bar, but may have consumed more calories than I thought?) I didn't think I had been eating that badly over the whole couple of days, but then I saw this when I weighed myself on Thursday the 19th:

weight: 208.0 lbs
fat percentage: 44.7%
hydration: 38.0%
muscle: 27.3%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2334

Crap! I thought.  But I know that your weight can fluctuate a bit, so I decided to try again the next day and got this:

weight: 206.2 lbs
fat percentage: 46.5%
hydration: 36.7%
muscle: 26.3%
bone: 10.8%
cal: 2324

The weight was going in the right direction, but the fat percentage was high and the muscle percentage a bit lower than it had been.  But those numbers were taken at 8:30am; I usually weigh myself in the later morning.  So today I tried again, more at my usual time:

weight: 205.6 lbs
fat percentage: 43.7%
hydration: 38.7%
muscle: 27.7%
bone: 10.8%
cal: 2320

I'm glad to see the fat percentage has gone down since the 20th (it's apparently actually under what it was 11th).  Likewise the muscle percentage is back up from the 20th as well.  And of course my weight is heading back in the right direction (not quite where it was at on the 11th, but still).  

Weight Update for July 11

I didn't do a weight update last week because it was my period.  I was going to do one a few days ago but have been struggling with lows in the aftermath of my period.  Today was the first day that I didn't wake up low, so I made sure to weigh myself.  And boy was I happy with the numbers!

weight: 203.4 lbs
fat percentage: 44.1%
hydration: 38.4%
muscle: 27.5%
bone: 10.8%
cal: 2308

I've continued to count calories using My Fitness Pal; because I am on insulin and do go low sometimes, I can't always stay in the target calories My Fitness Pal suggests (plus, you know, I'm human, and sometimes end up eating more than planned, particularly when I'm out with friends).  But I'm doing my best and it looks like it is paying off.  I really like using My Fitness Pal because I'm using it to help me count carbohydrates as well (that's actually my bigger motivation to keep using it - the calorie counter it has is just sort of a bonus, keeping me more aware of how much I'm actually eating).

Surprisingly, my muscle percentage is staying around the same; since being sick I haven't been working out (plus the aforementioned problems with lows have hampered me getting back into that, too).  I'm doing a basal test this afternoon, so my hope is to get myself back into it over the next few days (I'm not going to lie, since stopping it's been hard to motivate myself to get back into it).