Hey, Look, it's the First Again
Dec. 1st, 2009 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessAnd I've lost another 5 lbs. How, I don't rightly know. I have been reasonable diet-wise, but I haven't exercised at all the last couple of weeks. Possibly the weight was all gone by that time and I've just been maintaining, I don't know. In any case, it's fine if surprising.
The not fine thing is that after losing 25 lbs since this summer, my body fat % (according to my home scale that purports to measure it) hasn't changed at all, and my measurements haven't changed very much. I don't quite know what to do with that. I need to make an appointment for my assessment at the gym, which may clarify matters as no doubt their measurements are more accurate.
But, as soon as these dang cramps go away in a couple of days, I feel a renewed commitment to my exercise routine. I figure, after an unscheduled break, what better time to go ahead and change things up: do my weightlifting 3 times a week like I know I should rather than the 2 I've been coming kinda close to; take a yoga class that I've been thinking of trying; swim once a week, goddammit we aren't paying those dues for nothing (that is, we kind of have been, but I don't want to be!); bike at least a little every day until the distance to the grocery store is easy; walk the dog every day - he'll be happier, I'll be happier. So, that's the plan. I don't think it's too much. If it is, I'll adjust, but it's what I want to aim for. It adds up to a lot of time once you include all of the putting shoes on and getting to the gym and other ancillary times, but I've already made the decision that if other things (ie housecleaning) have to suffer in favor of me exercising, that is okay.
I've gotten little better about breakfast. I have pancakes and waffles in the freezer, ready to be toasted, so that gives me another easy option besides yogurt&granola and oatmeal. Next week I will bake some muffins.
The not fine thing is that after losing 25 lbs since this summer, my body fat % (according to my home scale that purports to measure it) hasn't changed at all, and my measurements haven't changed very much. I don't quite know what to do with that. I need to make an appointment for my assessment at the gym, which may clarify matters as no doubt their measurements are more accurate.
But, as soon as these dang cramps go away in a couple of days, I feel a renewed commitment to my exercise routine. I figure, after an unscheduled break, what better time to go ahead and change things up: do my weightlifting 3 times a week like I know I should rather than the 2 I've been coming kinda close to; take a yoga class that I've been thinking of trying; swim once a week, goddammit we aren't paying those dues for nothing (that is, we kind of have been, but I don't want to be!); bike at least a little every day until the distance to the grocery store is easy; walk the dog every day - he'll be happier, I'll be happier. So, that's the plan. I don't think it's too much. If it is, I'll adjust, but it's what I want to aim for. It adds up to a lot of time once you include all of the putting shoes on and getting to the gym and other ancillary times, but I've already made the decision that if other things (ie housecleaning) have to suffer in favor of me exercising, that is okay.
I've gotten little better about breakfast. I have pancakes and waffles in the freezer, ready to be toasted, so that gives me another easy option besides yogurt&granola and oatmeal. Next week I will bake some muffins.
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Date: 2009-12-02 04:58 pm (UTC)*\0/*
I would not trust your home scale as far as you can kick it with a toe as to BF percentage. As for measurements, well, I got nothin'. How are your clothes fitting? 25 pounds would be at least 2 pant sizes down for me. That is better indicator, as far as I'm concerned, to actual weight loss.
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Date: 2009-12-02 05:20 pm (UTC)On size, yeah, I can't tell. Things that were tight are not so much, now, so I've got not having to go up a size like I should have in June, I guess. Which is not nothing, but it's kind of intangible. My jeans seem to big, but that may go away after I wash them, as seems to be the way of jeans. I haven't hauled my giant Ziploc full of clothes-that-are-too-small-but-I-love to see if I fit into any of them, yet - it's way in the back of the shed and last time I tried the results were disappointing.
Last time I did the assessment at the gym, the BF% was pretty close to my home scale results. I kind of suspect that having the percentage so high, currently, might mess with the measurement a bit - no doubt the technology is calibrated for a range of results that I might well be outside of. Though it's always possible that my on again, off again exercising has led to actually decreasing muscle mass somehow. Which is not ideal, obviously, but also a little heartening in that if that's the case, it didn't take a lot more effort for much more satisfying muscle/fat proportions, it's just a matter of keeping above a minimum level. The more I can quantify this stuff the better I can motivate myself when I want to just crawl back in bed for the rest of the week...that and ASCII pom poms, of course!