[dillytl]

Originally Posted by rixatrix

Oh, I tire of this rest week!

I took a personal day off work today (planned ahead since Tuesday, when I was desperately close to playing hooky). It's blissful! I have a package coming of my favorite shower gel from Lush.com - it smells like jasmine and honey and liquid sexiness. I see a long, hot shower in my not-so-distant future. I also plan to scour sporting goods stores for a foam roller, so I can get the kinks out of my upper back and roll out my tight calves.

Gladly, after my mid-week freakout, I have good numbers to report. All that HIIT paid off.

Weigh-in:
This week - 188.4 @ 28.4% bf = 53.51 fat, 134.89 lean
Last week - 189.6 @ 29% bf = 54.98 fat, 134.62 lean

Jan 24th - 192.8 @ 32% bf = 61.5 fat, 131.3 lean

Change - This Week: -1.48 fat, +.28 lean
Change - TOTAL: -8 fat, + 3.59 lean

Avg. Cals This Week - 1,891
Avg. Protein This Week - 154
(2400 cals sunday, 1900 cals monday and tuesday, and 1600 these last two days. Lord am I hungry! 1600 is too low.)

8lbs fat loss in 7 weeks...slow, steady progress. But if I keep this up, I'll look remarkably changed by summer. (And let's be honest, isn't that what those of us who feel unhappy with our shape want, summer after summer? An improvement?)

Using kfisherx's Diet Template spreadsheet - which you can find here - the calculation tells me I am indeed burning 2600 calories a day. Holy cow! I must use this information for good, and not evil - evil being justification to plow into a box of girl scout cookies (damn those girl scouts!). I need to eat breakfast.

Last night, I went to an award show for work. Went with a coworker, Megan. We went out to eat first (there was no food last year...but of course, there was food this year...whatever.) and I had a black bean burger with tomato soup, mmm. Then, at the show, someone from our company was given a lifetime achievement award, so we sat up front at these pretty white tables and had bottles of champagne all around. I took a few sips of the champagne to be "festive", but it probably only added up to about an ounce in total, if that. Anyway, I'm proud I can make good decisions under peer pressure and off "the plan".

2,600 calories a day.
!
I never would have guessed.

NICE progress there!!! Congrats on your self control at the awards show!

And - STAY AWAY FROM THE COOKIES!!!!