So I went yesterday to have my resting metabolic rate tested and my body composition in one of those 'bod pod' thingys. Talk about sobering. I know I'm way too heavy, I know I'm unhappy, but to see those numbers was kind of frightening. I'm 49% fat. UNBELIEVABLE. My sister kept telling me - don't let it discourage you, don't let it get you depressed, use it to motivate you. On the plus side, my RMR was much higher than my height/weight/composition estimated. Based on teh estimation, with no exercise, I'd have had to eat only 750 calories to lose 1 lb a week. The RMR measurement takes it to about 2000. The guy who did the measurements was pleased and so glad I opted to do both so that he could see that it was totally doable to have a 500 calorie deficit based on my RMR.

At first I swear he looked at me like - why are you here? It is a bike shop that has coaching and such, so I'm sure he's used to getting fit athletes in there. But he quickly moved to very encouraging - what's your plan, how are you going to attack this, I don't care about this first number, it's the next one when you come back in in 3-4 months that matters. So, wasn't nearly as humiliating as it could be, but still DAMN humiliating.

Here is this challeng's spreadsheet! Let's kick some butt everyone.
https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spr...UE&output=html