My meeting last night went very well. They've pared down the meetings to only about 8 people per group, so it was far more intimate a setting. I weighed in with a 2.2 lbs. loss, bringing me down to an even 227.0.
The great thing is that the print-out from the Tanita scale shows how your weight is proportioned. In my case, those 2.2 lbs I lost were PURE fat, no fat-free mass (muscle, bone, etc.) was lost. My total body water weight also remained the same. What's good is that for some reason, if I don't lose weight, or even gain a pound, I can find out what kind of pound that was - a pound of muscle or a pound of flesh? I can't remember how many times I stepped on the WW scale, suffering through a week with no loss, thinking "I wonder if it's because I've gained muscle?"
We also are checking our blood pressures every week. Mine dropped quite a bit between last week. I went from (if I can remember correctly) 137/91 to 129/79. These figures may be wrong, but I'll double check tem when I get home tonight.
At the end of the night we were asked about our long-term and short-term goals. Many of us were taken by surprise, as the leader wanted to write down these goals for posterity. I erred on the side of conservatism. I chose a long-term program-goal of 5% weight reduction. And my short-term (this week) goal is to go for 3 night-walks this week. I live in a hilly suburb, and it's quite a nice work-out to take a 20 min. walk up and down the neighborhood.
So, it's going well. I went to the grocery store last night to replenish my fruit (green grapes, grapefruits, apples!, plums). The price of food, though, is wearing me out. All this fresh food is so expensive!
Posted by weezgrrl at February 16, 2005 11:08 AM