The results are in!! I've lost 14 pounds of fat and gained 4 pounds of muscle. Does that mean I've lost 18 pounds?? I don't think, so but the measurements look good -- triceps eleven units smaller (cms?) Biceps 19 units down, subscap, whatever those are, less eight. I've lost 15 units on my chest, 12 on my thighs, and four on my calves. My fat mass is down and my lean body mass is up. I'm no longer obese (how I despise that word) I'm now simply overweight! YIPEEEEEEEE. I'm so proud of myself.
Right now, my legs are like jelly having done a 45 minute spin class but, you know what,? It's a dizzying joy to be headed in a healthful direction.....cardio, bring it on, weight training, lets go, spin spun fun, I'm becoming addicted to exercise. (Talk to me tomorrow, right now I seem to have a spinners high.) Thank you Korezone for so much support. Spinning is like nothing else, it's churning legs and dripping sweat and then you have to notch it up 10 percent. It's pushing beyond your limits and challenging yourself. It makes you weak at the knees and light in the head and fully, truly alive. I LIKED it. My sitz bones are going to be complaining tomorrow but for now its all good. It all very, very good. M
Things are in a muddle here in fat-city. The wonderful women at Korezone are moving to a new space with no membership, whatever that means; my trainer Ashley is moving to a new gym: my weight watchers tickets are all spent and I'm going on a holiday for much of July. I'm also seriously re-thinking my project.
I've decided it will become the 50505050 Project, the first 50 standing for 50% -- Fifty percent of fifty pounds in fifty weeks at the age of fifty years, it's a perfect out for something that I have found extremely challenging. If indeed, this were my new objective, I'd be right on track, maybe even a pound or so above my objective of half a pound of weight loss a week. And you know what? Given my lifestyle and how hard I've been working at this, I think that might be a more realistic objective.
I'm also think about the old adage that muscle weights more than fat and I'm interested in that because I have definitely gained muscle. In fact, I'm so interested I've asked Ashley to do a half way BMI measurement just before she exists the gym. Tomorrow she's going to get those old callipers out again to pinch the flab and determine how much has turned into rock hard muscle. Then I'm going to go to my first ever spin class to ride my bike 45 minutes and sweat off the excess...it's gonna be a good day! I actually like exercising now and I don't want to loose the strides I've made toward becoming healthier.
I look better, I definitely feel better and although I'm not the imagined 22 pound down on week 22, I'm still pleased with my progress. Hey, a woman has the right to change her mind. If I can loose 25 pounds in 50 weeks I'm going to be a very happy camper. Onward, I say, onward towards a more realistic goal. M
Maybe I should have called this the TwentyfiveFiftyFiftyProject or, better yet the HalfFifty/Fifty/FiftyProject or maybe the FiftyFiftyOneHundred Project, Who knows? All I know for sure is fifty pounds is a hell of a lot of weight to shed. I'm down almost 15 pound since I started and I'm feeling the difference. I bought a pair of size 12 capri pant two weeks ago. That felt fine, yet, I'm not yet prepared to discard my vision. Currently everything is a little up in the air now with the gym downsizing and all the uncertainty around that. It might be a good time for me to shake up my programme, however, try kick boxing or running again or something different. I'm closing in on the half way mark and I'm feeling a bit behind but I'm not going to let that matter; the behind I'm feeling is more muscled and less flabby than the one sashayed 21 weeks ago....it's all a matter of perspective. m
Week twenty! Have I lost a pound a week as I anticipated? No. Have I been faithful to the gym? Yes. Am I fitter and stronger? Yes. Have I been really careful with the food that goes into my body? Sometimes. And that, my friends, is the ticket. Success in this weight loss game is 80% food. And food (and wine) have been a struggle. I've joined weight watchers, but unless you're going to follow the program it's really an expensive fool's game. Every week I promise myself it will be different and I will write down the food I eat and calculate the number of points I have and stay within the 25 point range and every week I last a day or two and then I let the writing down slide and the number of calories jumps and the number of points I've consumed becomes who-knows-how-many the next time I step on the scales. So I have to change that behaviour.
To date I have lost 14 pounds and I'm proud of that and I can tell my clothes are fitting more loosely. I eat breakfast every morning, something I never used to do, and I'm usually on top of things until around 4 pm. the witching-hour!! Then it's snack snack snack....Today, just for one day, I'm going to be more mindful around that time. I know my enemy and they say that is half the battle...the other half is subduing the enemy. Today, strength training and cycling. Oh, and no cinnamon buns....M
