Weigh-in Week of January 15

[LBTC]

Wahine, I love your new avatar!

DH and I did our first weigh in on New Year's day. We have a fancy scale that weight fat %age, muscle mass, metabolic age and a bunch of other stuff....how accurately we don't care, as long as it moves in the right direction when these things change...

We each set an end of June goal, then just divided that evenly between the months leading up to it. We weigh in Saturday mornings. From previous experience, I know better than to step on the scale more often than that....we always weigh in under exactly the same circumstances each week.

The important parts of my objectives:
Jan 1 weight: 136.4 lbs. June 30 weight objective: 125
Jan 6 weight actual: 133.8 Jan 13 weight actual: 134.6

Fat %age Jan 1: 29.4 June 30 fat %age objective: 23
Jan 6 fat: 29.6 Jan 13 fat: 29.9

Muscel mass Jan 1: 91.6lbs June 30 muscle goal: 100
Jan 6 mm: 89.4 Jan 13 mm: 89.6

What I learned from the first 2 weeks: to reach my objectives I must do muscle strength workouts. Since then I've started a kickboxing class which I plan to attend on Mondays and Thursdays. I plan to spin (trainer - there is lots of snow here) for at least a half hour the night after kb. Weekends, if I can't get out snowshoeing, plant to do a combination of spin and weights and/or heavy bag.

Food - just trying to eat little 1/2 cup containers about 4 times a day, and keep my evening meal about that small...not counting calories.

Not sure how my newly discovered health issue (crohn's) will affect all of this. I have to be careful with food, for sure, but still don't know which foods are problematic for me. And I've learned that there is a noticeable fatigue factor that I'm trying to figure out. I hope to be able to do the weekly exercise I have planned. Last week was bad, but this week is good so far.

I do have a little spreadsheet to track the weigh ins, and am also measuring waist, hips, bust...

you should probably also know that I'm only 5' 1 1/2" tall. From the last few years of training, my ideal fitness weight, when I feel strong and go fast, feel energetic and look pretty good, seems to be in the 120-125 range.

Congratulations to all of you on your goals and achievements so far!! Keep it going!

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[bike4ever]

I'm adding in here. Down 5.8 lbs this week using Weight Watchers.

[Offthegrid]

Congrats, bike mom! Everyone is doing fantastic.

I also have been surprised by how much my weight will vary day to day. I don't weight every day (only at the gym, and not every time I go), and it really seems like there's no rhyme or reason to why one day it's way down and the next it's way up.

[chickwhorips]

being curious this morning i hopped on the scale, and i mean hopped. never realized it could be difficult getting on the scale with one foot.
i have actually lost 2 lbs. i know i've been eating more frequently, possibly not as much, but not working out (not by choice). i'm very excited.