June 3, 2016

I learned a lot this week, about myself and also other things that hopefully will help me during this whole process.


This week wasn't the best week on me. There has been more stress put on me with the wedding prep and I've come to realize how much stress can effect your overall health. It effects your sleep, your mood, and your relationships. I have not had a decent nights sleep for about two weeks, due to nightmares and body pains, and I wake up with more body pains... I've never been this stiff. But then also having so much to do with so little time, and work all day the next day, I'm not getting enough sleep either. And with no sleep and stress on top of that during the day I get cravings. Like MAJOR cravings. And they're always for the fatty, sugary good things. But knowing these things are good because now I know how my body works when it's in survival mode. It wants easy, desirable foods to fulfill it's needs and I've been doing it for so long that my will isn't that strong to say No! I'm wanting that to be one of my goals this week: To know when I go into this mode and know that it's just my body demanding something it doesn't need and to substitute it for something better.


But I also learned about an awesome instrument that we have at work. We have one of those TANITA weight scales and it is one of the coolest things because not only calculates your weight, but it also measures your fat %, muscle mass, water weight, and a bunch of other things. But I've never really understood everything else that is measured. But today someone finally explained what everything means and I've finally learned where exactly I am as far as my health. The past few times I have weighed myself the scale always came up with being on the obese side. Now it says I'm solidly built. Now I also understand how much I need to weight and fat % I need to be at a desirable place.


Well that goes to my goal for now. My fiancé claims that he's going to lose 8lbs before the wedding (two weeks away) and he thinks that I can do it too. I'm sure I could but I'm worried about my dress and other things, but also with my history of trying to lose weight in a short period of time. It's never worked for me so I have no idea if it would work for me or not anyway. So instead of worrying about a specific weight loss goal I'm going to work on getting to my desirable place. So here are my results and my goals for the next two weeks:


Weight: 174.2lbs (Ideal: 132.2lbs..... That seems a little low to me but okay....)
Fat %: 34.5% (Ideal: 21-32.9%) I will work towards 32.9% by the wedding
Muscle Mass: 108.4lbs
Fat mass: 60lbs (Ideal: 30.4-56lbs) I will work towards 56lbs by the wedding
Degree of Obesity: 31.8%