Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Weight:  160.6
Exercise:  Not much today - probably just walk the dog.  Worked out yesterday so I'm recovering today.

Well, you may have noticed that I've taken a little break from posting.  I'm just reevaluating how I'm eating at the moment, so I've stopped keeping track of my weight as much over the last several days.  Not only that but I've also had some problems with staying focused on eating well the past several days.  Have you ever noticed that one meal can send you on a downward spiral of eating badly?  It's like if I don't even taste bad for me stuff then I don't miss it as much...but the second I let myself have a "treat," all of a sudden I'm back to craving the bad stuff. 

David gave me a Kindle for mother's day and I'm absolutely loving it.  I researched some books on weight loss and eating healthy and decided to get this book called Ultrametabolism by Mark Hyman, MD.  It's a very interesting book.  He talks about why our metabolisms do what they do, how they are affected by the foods we put into our bodies and stuff like that.  He also is a big promoter of eating whole, natural foods.  I'm not saying I'm going to follow 100% of what he recommends, but I'm seriously considering changing some of the things I'm doing with my eating.  If you're looking for an interesting book about how our bodies work, I definitely recommend this one.  I normally can't read anything other than fiction books, but this book has me totally enthralled.  Then again I'm also way more interested in understanding weight loss than I've ever been...knowing the why and how is really helping me focus on trying to get healthy.

I'll be back to posting like normal here pretty soon.  I'm not giving up!  Oh, one last thing.  I decided to get my body fat tested at the gym yesterday.  You know I'm still in it to win it if I'm divulging this kind of information to you!  I came up at 27.5% body fat.  Honestly, I thought I'd be at 30%, so in a way I was pleasantly surprised.  I was told by the woman at the gym that I should aim to be in between 20-25% body fat.  My goal for right now is to get to 24%.  I'm going to retest in about 2 months...so we'll see what happens!