Day #1 Stats & Rant
I’ve been sitting here sipping my morning coffee, debating whether I was even going to post my stats this morning. As you can guess, after measuring earlier this morning, I am not happy. Not happy at all. Even though the scale shows I have lost 6 of those pesky holiday pounds I put on, my inches are nowhere near what they were before I gained 9 lbs. I don’t get it; 3 lbs. cannot make that big of a difference in inches on my hips! Plus, I havn’t been using my calipers to measure my body fat, but going by my scale which also measures body fat percentage in addition to pounds. Obviously it is totally wrong. See what I hate my scale?!
My husband does my measuring because I found before that if I measure myself, the numbers are slightly lower than when he does it and mine are not right because I’m bent over trying to measure my thighs and I can’t exactly measure my arms correctly one-handed. He really, really dislikes measuring me because if the numbers aren’t what I expect or *want* them to be, he gets the blame. And, of course, this morning was no different. He was still bent down in front of me when he told me my hip measurements - big mistake! I started breathing fire and his eyebrows got singed. Poor guy, I hope he’s okay with the way his eyebrows look now.
While I was did my first P90X workout this morning, I really couldn’t stay focused, but I gave it my all and that’s all I can do. So I do feel good about my workout and I think I got rid of some of that negative energy I was carrying around about my measurements. That’s always a good thing.
To be honest, I wasn’t going to post my measurements this morning, but I have decided to go ahead and do it. There’s no way I can be held accountable by my friends and readers of this blog if I withhold information, right? Plus, how can I help anyone else by journaling about my fat loss if I’m not upfront about where I began? So here goes:
Day #1 stats:
Left arm: 11.5″
Right arm: 11.5″
Chest: 38″
Waist: 29.75″
Hips: 40.25″ (OUCH!!!)
Left thigh: 24.75″
Right thigh: 24.5″
Left calf: 14.25″
Right calf: 14″
Body Fat %: 30.9% (Yikes!)
Height (in case it matters): 5′8″
Weight: 163 lbs.
Lean Body Mass: 112.63 lbs.
Fat: 50.37 lbs.
So that’s it with the measurements. Today is technically day #1 of eating clean, but I really kind of started over the weekend because I wanted to get a head start on getting off the junk, which I did successfully.
Want to get an estimate of your body fat percentage? Here is an online calculator that will give you a good idea: Body Fat Calculator. It’s only .123% off from my calipers and it’s one of the most accurate I have found online.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
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