Weigh in: Week 11

At least it was a week with a loss!

Officially lost another 3 lbs and 1.5 inches...actually, 1.75 if I count both thighs!

I lost 3/4" off my thorax
         1/2" off my hips
         1/4" off each of my thighs

Officially it showed me at 171.6 but I started out my day at 169.0 which is what I really count since I am on the scale first thing without any food or drink.

I had a wacky Saturday since I ended up meeting with a girlfriend and hanging out at a coffee shop for hours which meant I drank way too much coffee and ended up with too much caffeine in my system. I compensated with LOTS of water though and I think I did okay. Mark and I went to Aloha Kitchen last night for our IP dinner (he always takes me here once a week so I don't have to cook and they serve IP friendly meals!) and I had at least 2 cups of green tea (more caffeine) so I don't know if I managed to flush all of the caffeine out or not. I have a hunch I'm still trying to get rid of it today....

My TOM decided to come back after 2 weeks. It's so frustrating because my hormones go so out of whack and my body fat reads incorrectly. It's really high AGAIN (which is what happens during my TOM) so my coach can't truly see what my actually body fat is. Weird thing is that I lost 1 lb of fat this week so I should be reading about 1% down but no.....my hormones are raging yet again.

I have to look at it positively though. I need to remember that for every bit of fat my body chooses to use, it's releasing whatever toxins, hormones and anything else that's stored in that fat cell. It's crazy to think that our fat cells store lots of stuff (besides fat). So any toxins you are exposed to tend to go into your fat cells.... so if you break out, feel funky, get your TOM, etc., it's something that was released by that fat cell. Crazy..... at least I know I'm burning fat this way, right?

For the first time my coach asked me where I would like to land in terms of weight. I realized that I'm more than half way to my supposed goal because of it. We need to figure out when to phase me off and the rule of thumb is that you lose 90% of the weight (whatever you decide that is) and then you start phase 2 for two weeks, then move to phase 3 for two weeks, then to maintenance.

I had this 'idea' that I wanted a body fat percentage and a dream size in terms of clothing. Granted, sizes have changed over the past 20 years but I really wanted to go to a place I've never been just to prove that I can. I think it's a healthy goal....I just don't know if it's truly achievable or not. If I look at the reading from the fancy clinic scale (which I was told is wrong since my hormones are messing with the BF reading) I still have 28 lbs of fat left to lose. That seems ridiculous to me. That would mean I would weigh 138 or so which I think for my large and muscular frame is too low. I was thinking 148-152 might be right....my dream size is a 6 although if I make it to an 8 I would consider that a HUGE success. I'm almost a 10 now and if I still have 15-24 lbs to lose I might make it to that size 6 after all.

It is a dream I have..... and I think it's achievable. One more day in week 11 to see what I can accomplish.....I'm going to attempt to be in phase 4 within 8 weeks time! Wish me luck!