I've been having a lot of trouble with the scales that live in the bathroom where I live. Meadow came to my journal and suggested that I use the ones in the gym. Brilliant idea, I thought. Why didn't I think of that. This morning (Tues 11th June) was exactly 2 weeks since I was first assessed at gym. So off I go wearing exactly the same clothes and shoes, and get on their scales. AND I'VE PUT ON 2KG. I mean two weeks of getting up at 5.30am and driving to gym to do 40min workout and I put on 2kg. (Thats about 4 1/2 pd)
I know its probably muscle, but the plan wasn't to replace 100+lb of excess fat with 120+lb of excess muscle.
Here comes the good news:
When I arrived home, I did a measure up of all the relevant body parts and I've lost 40cm ( 15 3/4 inches ) over 1/2 of it on my waist, hips and butt.
So it appears that instead of getting lighter I'm getting squished.
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The other really good news, is that I didn't need or want to go and have a binge to compensate. With other diets I'd have been off to the chocolate aisle, or down to Macdonalds to "fix things" at the first opportunity. Not this time though.
So I'll keep on keeping on.
Thanks for listening.
PS Had to come back to report in that I had a hunt around and found the body fat index and calculated my BF% on my original assesment (37%) and now (35%). So I'm having a quiet thrill over that. The drop, not the actual %age.