9/12/05 on track to lose an entire 6 pounds this year

Today I weigh 247. I weigh more now than I did earlier this summer, but not much. Okay, I’ve been feeling very sorry for myself lately. I mean really sorry. I haven’t been handling my non-weight loss gracefully. Not gracefully at all. I just went back and looked at my spreadsheet I use to track my progress. I have lost a grand total of 3 pounds since 3/29. That’s it, three measly little pounds. Gee, I’m on track to lose an entire 6 pounds this year. Fuck. (Insert explicative deleted here.)

On 5/5/2005 I had my impedance measured at the gym. 251 pounds, and at that time I had a body fat % of 44.9. My fat mass was 113 and my fat free mass (FFM) was 138.1. Today I checked and I have weigh 247 with a body fat % of 42.5. That’s a change of 2.4%! It means that I’ve lost 7.7 pounds of fat but I’ve gained 3.4 pounds of muscle. I really don’t know what this means yet. My new FFM is 142, and so with the 35% of body fat that would be considered in the “healthy” range for women my age, that would mean my goal is somewhere between 180 – 192 pounds. So it looks like I only have about 55 pounds left to go. … Sigh. So at my current rate of loss, I should be there in 3.5 years…. That’s averaging 14 pound of fat loss a year…. Kkkkhhhhaggg However, if I put on another 3.2 pound of muscle, that will bring my FFM to 147 and my body fat% to 40.1% and I would only need to loose 47 more pounds…. And I would be just about right at 200 pounds. I wish I knew enough math to be able to figure out how much difference another 7.7 pounds weight loss would make in this equation. I wish I was smarter.

So, I went from wearing pants size 24 to size 20-18 with a 3 pound net weight loss.

HOLY SHIT! I MEAN, HOLY SHIT! I just crossed my legs. One leg over the other!

On the flight back from Vegas I had to tighten the seat belt. A long way from needing an extender. But only 3 pounds.

9/15/05

The scale just won’t budge. Sort of like this last bit of chicken I ate… So I do believe it is high time I started tracking my food again. I just wish I had the key for my diet log on my PDA.

Coffee with all the fixin’s 2 mugs

Lunch fried chicken breast no skin, no coating, about 2 T bbq sauce. 70 calories for the bbq sauce, need to not buy this one again. First ingredient is high fructose corn syrup.

BBQ sauce 2T 70 calories

Chicken breast 200 (based on raw 5 oz chicken breast 140 calories, 90% protein needed 32.0 g,

Apple martini 150 calories

Luna bar 180 calories

Steak, 5 oz 300

Mac’n’cheese 300