Toughen Up Princess

• 1/2 hour in the boxing gym - not the best workout i've ever done
• 10,000 + steps
  

• 95.8 kg
• 29% Body Fat - FFS these figures must be BS to fluctuate so much
• 50.7% Body Water - Is this Good?
  

• Kicked the footy around the oval with my missus for 35 min - Got plenty of sun
  
• 1/2 hour private session Boxing (man my arms were caned)
• Didn't wear my pedometer - sorry

• 96.7kg
• 29.1% Body Fat - Huh? WTF is that about?
  
• 50.6% Body Water
• 31.6 BMI
  

I've been one of the gym's best customers lately. You know, paying for membership just not going. So with that in mind I rocked up today and performed

• one set on each upper body part.
  
• 10,000 steps in the AM 15,200 in total
  
• 3pm(ish) 3 sets of 10 lengths of a cricket pitch (see above) - best time 1.09
  

Ok then. I've got two weeks off from work. The plan is to get some decent exercise in, knock over my assaignments from work and get some decent sleep. My old man found out that i've got some time off and wouldn't you know it? He's chucking a new kitchen in and I can give him a hand. Lucky me. With any luck that shouldn't interfere with my plans.

Bloody work interfering with my weight loss :-(

Ok here's the score

• 97kg = Loss of 2.8 kg
• 25.3% Body Fat = Loss of 1.2%
• 52.6 Body Water = Gain of 0.7% Body Water
• 31.7 BMI = Loss of 0.6 BMI

To Put it another way I've lost 2.8% of my start weight. Not bad, not good. I mean a loss for a fatty like moi is a good thing.

To be honest I'm not to concerned that the scales are higher than my lowest reading of 95.4kg. Why? Well fluctuations are a fact of life. Today before weigh in I'd done 10,000 steps, pumped some iron and drank a protein drink and some water.

Think about what you eat and drink each day. Each glass of water, every healthy tuna and garden salad and every piece of fruit weighs something. I hate to talk about it in a round about way but everything that goes in must come out. So if you jump on the scales in the afternoon you might get a bit dirty that you're not losing weight, indeed you may well have put it on! My weight fluctuates upto about 3kg. I really keep the fluids (water) up and this really can add to the numbers on the scales.

Another consideration is what you are wearing when you weigh yourself. Your clothes aren't weight free don't you know? Consider the difference in the scale weight if you are wearing boots as opposed to light weight runners. It does matter what your wearing.

So what's the best option Defib? You seem to be so smart about these things. Thanks for acknowledging my incredible intelect. My weigh in routine is to jump on the scales after a good nights sleep, after i've been to the loo and before i've had anything to drink or eat and before you chuck on your clothes. The "after a good nights sleep" counts out the day I return after night shift but problems are there to be overcome.

One last piece of advice. Use the same scales. Sure they might not be accurate but at the end of the day it's not the number that counts during your journey to a healthier weight but rather it's the fact that the number is decreasing.


Later

13000 steps - Got home after a long night shift and went for a quick jog. I'm not really fit so it was a short jog with a long walk :-P I've somehow injured my shoulder which ticks me off

Well two weeks came pretty quick. Now i've been far from hard core in my training. Toughen up Princess is a call to action for me. Bad / Lazy habits are hard to break. Going from zero to hero doesn't happen over night. On top of that the shift work makes a routine hard to follow, a sport hard to get involved in and knocks me around physically.

So - Whats the score after two weeks? - 97kg (-2.8kg)

Had a crappy nights sleep and spent today all run down. I knocked out 10,000 steps and ate pretty good.

97.9 kg (-1.9kg)

Feeling real good. I haven't been sub 98 kilograms in a long time. At this rate my initial goal of 95kg looks like it'll happen soon.

Just finished a run of night shifts. They really knock me about but at least not as bad as they do my mate. He gets physically sick which really sucks.

So i've done sweet FA exercise. Pretty disapointed with myself. But at least my diet's been pretty good. Been drinking plenty of water, avoided pop and eaten pretty healthy.

98.3 kg (-1.5kg)

Feeling good - My weight is headed in the right direction :-D

98.6 Kg ( -1.2kg)


This despite a can of coke and lack of exercise :-)

My pedometer averaged about 5-6,000 steps the last two days.