Weigh-in, Feb 16

Body Weight: 199.0 lbs.

Change since last week: +2.4lbs (Change in two weeks: -1.8lb)

Total Body Fat: 36.1%

Body composition: 71.8 lbs fat/127.2lbs lean

Total Body Water: 47.6%

Body Mass Index: 30.3

Total loss, 2009: -3.2lbs (Avg/wk: -.53lb/wk)

Ok, not gonna lie, this yo-yo-ing is getting sort of old.
I know the reason why it increased this month - I was at a week-long training, so I ate out for lunch and spent an additional 1.5 hours in the car daily. Fair excuse. Valid excuse.

But do you know the problem with excuses? They don't solve the problem - they validate it. I can make plenty of excuses this week.
"But I was socializing with classmates!"
"But my days were long and I was tired!"
"But the facilitator passed out candy!"
"But I was too busy with homework to track my calories!"

Enough. The only thing these buts did for me was to expand mine. (Butt, that is. Oh yeah, I went there.)

So for the next two weeks, until that butt of mine is in Miami, it will be in gear. It will be running, down-dogging and squatting. It will be getting tanned and toned, not flabby and pasty.

Earlier this month, I turned 25 ... and it was a wake-up call that I need to start paying attention to and taking responsibility for all my actions. All of them, even the ones that I don't like.



On the bright side, while I was in training I met up with some classmates that I hadn't seen in a while. One of them who hadn't seen me in two months looked me up and down for about ten seconds and then clapped her hands and said, "That's what it is. You've lost weight! Your face, it's just more ... defined. What have you been doing? You look fabulous." And that? That made it all (almost) worthwhile.