February 4th, 2008 by Cynthia
It's easy to be on schedule with your morning weigh-in when you've spent the entire night getting your very first blog live and ready for viewers! At least I HOPE it's ready. Well, you can tell me what you think!
Frankly, it felt quite weird getting on the scale when I haven't been to bed yet! My trusty Tanita scale gave me much different numbers for body fat and hydration than I'm used to seeing! I guess that is because when you sleep, fluids settle differently in your body and that can skew the scale's bio-electrical impedance readings some. At any rate, it made for a slightly higher hydration and lower body fat percentage than I normally see.
Yeah, I know that sleep is one of THE important things for staying healthy and losing fat, but I won't get so much of that today. I am going to crash for a few hours after I post this.
Weigh in results - Monday, February 4th, 2008
232.0 pounds. Body fat 39.5 %.
Up by 2.2 pounds? I can explain that in one all too familiar word. PIZZA.
Yeah, I watched the Superbowl and caved. It was a Greek Vegetarian pizza plus added chicken from Abby's Legendary Pizza. Very tasty... they really pile the veggies on that thin crust. (ingredients: Roasted Garlic, Black Olives, Red Bell Peppers, Onions, Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Feta Cheese, Spinach) So it's not all bad I suppose, but they don't post a nutrition menu, so I really have no idea how many calories are in this thing!
I ate HALF a large. I might not always do that, but I'd skipped a meal and was hungry. Gotta watch that. It's much easier to eat normal portions if I'm not hungry. Memo to self... don't skip meals!
We got a lot of snow yesterday... so my hilly street is not going to be fun to drive on even though temps are going above freezing today supposedly. I need studded tires to cope with my slippery slope. (Wish they had them for my eating slope!) With that and the lack of sleep, I don't think I'm going to make my noon water exercise class. So I'll have to try for a session on my Nordic Track cross country ski machine later.
And when I do wake up, meals on schedule, back on track! If there is one thing I've learned, it's to jump back on soonest after a fall. I hate seeing progress go backwards, ugh!
But hey, I burnt energy typing all night in my new blog excitement! Now to sleep if I can settle down!
February 4th, 2008 by Cynthia
Hello world and welcome to my fat loss blog!
Or Cynthia's little corner of personal fat loss hell made public, if you prefer!
I've thought for some time now about having a web page to log my weight loss efforts on, but to be honest, I felt kind of shy about it and wasn't really sure I wanted to do it. I thought of a name for my site back in 2006 and progressed little further.
Instead, I just got started trashing some of my fat! Putting the goo in the garbage, so to speak. And I did manage to reduce my weight considerably over the past year of 2007. I became somewhat discouraged last fall and blew it for a few months over the holidays and gained about 10 pounds back (mostly water), but I'm back on track for this years effort.
I hope to make it under 200 pounds this year!
I discovered the blog thing last year, while doing a body transformation challenge. While I may not have been overly successful at the challenge, I learned a lot, met new online friends and started reading some of their fat loss blogs. It was reassuring to read about other people's weight loss issues and fun to see what top fitness people were talking about. The idea of having my own blog started to steep again.
I think that going public will help keep me accountable and keep my fat loss project on track. Pretty important stuff, since it could take me another couple of years to reach goal!
So I looked into Blogger.com and Wordpress.com and it looked easy enough to start a blog. I did a little more reading on the topic and realized that it was possible to host your own blog with Wordpress software. That sounded like fun, domain names aren't terribly expensive and neither is hosting. Though I am sometimes a little technically challenged with web stuff beyond the basics, I thought I could manage it. If I can tackle losing 100+ pounds, I can host a blog, right? Hosting my own blog appealed greatly to my control freak self.
As it turned out, it really WAS simple to install the software and get going! Though it's a whole new world for me. I'm learning about themes, widgets, feeds, plug-ins, pings and all kinds of interesting things.
Disclaimer... I have the right to change the look of this blog at any time! But I think I'm happy for the moment as the theme I picked does offer loads of customization options, plus a cool little slide down shelf, which is where I've stashed some links to other blogs and websites for now. To access that, you'll see a little "open/close" link in the upper right corner of my home page... check it out!
Anyway, if you're still reading, I ask patience as I figure out what I'm doing with this blog. At age 50 and 229 pounds heavy, I've yet to give up hope of eventually getting lean and being a healthy weight. Obviously, I've not accomplished this miracle to date, but I've made a start.
G'night!
