Friday Fitness Blogging

• Weight = X-1
  
• Change From Last Weigh-in = +2
  
• Met Exercise Goal? Yes
  Goal was fifteen minutes a day (walk/bike/swim) at least six days.
  
• Current Exercise Goal = fifteen minutes a day (walk/bike/swim) at least six days.
  
• Kept food diary? Yes.

Ok, this is disheartening. I've not only kept my exercise up, I've been exceeding my goals. Here's last week's journal: Fri - 30 minutes, no exercise on Sat, Sun - 30 min, Mon - 32 min, Tue - 33 min, Wed - 33 min, and Thu - 33 min. And yet I've gained back most of the tiny bit of weight I've lost? Argh!

Still, I have to keep reminding myself, I feel healthier in general. I finish my exercise feeling great (if incredibly sweaty). I'm enjoying myself while exercising thanks to the TV shows (I'm on Farscape now). And there's that old saying that muscles are heavier than fat to keep me from complete despair, although I hardly think I'm gaining 2 pounds of muscle for every pound of fat lost.

While my big goal remains to get down to my college weight, I've got a short-term goal now. I noticed that my drivers license expires on my next birthday, so my first goal is to get down ten pounds by January 20th for my next license photo. With all the strange yo-yo-ing my weight has done, I think my weight needs to stay below a certain level for three weeks before I'll declare victory, so the goal is ten pounds by the end of the year, kept off until my birthday. It's not unreasonable.

Wish me luck... I can use the encouragement.