My Health Week in Review |
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Back when I started this site, I measured my health progress every week… or at least I tried to. At some point life intervened and I found I couldn’t keep up with the schedule. I’ve found that I’m putting more work in my exercise of late, so I will look to start it back up.
Overall Body Stats
I woke up this morning and measured my body fat. As I always do, I used two scales - one that uses Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) from my feet, Tanita Body Fat Scale - and one that uses it from hands - Omron Handheld Fat Loss Monitor. I find that they give me fairly different numbers, so I average them together to get the best overall pictures. In the future, I hope to add my Wii Fit age in, but I find that it varies wildly depending on the exercises it gives me.
When I measured myself today, I had the following stats:
- Weight: 169.5 pounds
- Body Fat: 20.05%
Exercise
I had one of my best weeks of exercise in a long time. If I didn’t, I’m not sure that I’d be posting this. With my apartment fixing the pool, I got to experience the great exercise that swimming is. I swam Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday doing 20, 30, and then 40 laps each day.
I continued with my 100 pushup plan (official website). I already wrote about Monday’s effort. Wednesday, Day 5, of the plan, went better than I could have imagined. After the first four sets, I thought I was done. I didn’t see how I was going to get 15 or more in the last set. I decided to take a new approach. I picked 23 as my goal. Though I was almost done at 12, I found a way to reach back and get the adrenaline to hit 23.
As my “mentoress” would say: I just realized something… something that really never occurred to me before… I’m gonna win. I am going to be able to do 100 pushups.
Eating and nutrition
I tried to focus my efforts on low carb, high protein eating this week. I didn’t really focus on this until Wednesday after I got a chance to go shopping. I am aware of the dangers of eating too much protein, but I still believe it’s the best way to go. I had two very large chicken breasts throughout the day. Unfortunately my plan got derailed by headaches, which usually come whenever I try to limit carbs. Perhaps I need to ease into it a little bit.
I also remembered to take a multivitamin every day this week. It’s the first time I’ve done that in a long time.
It’s very much baby steps at this stage, but I’m making progress and being healthier than I have in some time.
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June 27th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Sounds like a very productive week!
Wish I could share you enthusiasm for swimming though - I always find it a chore.
Keep it up,
–Steve
June 28th, 2008 at 2:33 am
I had one of my best weeks of exercise in a long time.
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love that
not so much here
using that to motivate me as well.
Miz.