My poor husband worked so hard, and the scale did not budge for him at all!  In his defense, he was already really, really healthy, and LEAN! So, I wasn’t much surprised.

For me, before Body For Life and weights and at the time I measured, my weight was 123, body fat 23%

After 121.5 and 20.89%.  The interesting thing the calipers did was Triceps before 17 points, after 12!!! But thighs, before 25 points, After 25 POINTS!!  I also lost one point from the ab measurement! How typical is that for me!!! SOOOO typical. I lose so much upper body weight, yet will always be “curvy” as he (my husband) likes to say.

So, that is it for this blog for now!! I’ll be dreaming about my new book shelf he has to build because I won!!!

Haven’t been in the mood much to keep track of what I’ve been eating.  But I have made a few changes.  For example.. I’m no longer looking for “reasons” to lose weight.  Because really, I don’t need to lose weight… yada, yada. We’ve been over this before.  When confronted with awesome food, I indulge, because-hey… I’m pretty OK.  I’ve never been one to strive for perfection.  I’m not a perfectionist by any stretch of the imagination.  Because this is true, and I still want to at least lose an inch off my butt.. at least ONE INCH!! Is that too much to task?  So, instead, I just need to avoid situations of weakness… like an alcoholic avoiding alcohol..rather than saying “I can handle it because my reasons for not pigging out are so much stronger than my will to get sick over some cookie dough”… because they aren’t.

Situations to avoid:

• Baking cookies- should be obvious, but yet I do it every weekend!
• Baking bread- another obvious one, because I’m capable of eating a whole loaf and going to bed with a stomach ache.
• Purchasing the red light food (animal crackers, Resee’s puffs cereal, graham crackers, Nilla Wafers, Trail mix with M&M’s)
• Hanging out in the kitchen in the middle of the day! I need to just hang out somewhere else.. Being in the kitchen, even if I’m cleaning it is dangerous. I see the container of peanut butter and, I grab a spoon, and go for it.

I’m sure I’ll think of more, but these are the worst ones for now.

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Monday morning- 1 hour cardio while I read at least 20 pages of bio chem. I understand that text book so much better on the treadmill, it’s crazy!  Then lower body workout, minus the calves of course.

For breakfast:  Eggs, mushrooms, on a whole wheat tortilla

Snack, cottage cheese and peaches

For lunch, and forgetting I already ate a whole wheat tortilla today, I had the tortilla, ham, lettuce, tomato, with fat free cream cheese. Then a banana

I ate a zone bar on my way to school

As soon as I got home from school, I had this waiting for me in the fridge: Pistachio pudding with protein powder. I’m so glad I made that ahead of time, because generally I’d be savaging for food!

Then, while I was preparing dinner, I ate a few little crackers with peanut butter on them.

Then this super yummy chicken salad (with chicken from a Rotisserie chicken)

And if you are curious, it really is 3:30 AM! I had to get up because I have so much studying to do. I’m no good at staying up late to study (always in bed by 9), but I am really good at waking up early!  So, here I go…. Electron Transport chain, TCA Cycle, and glycolysis are my focus this morning!