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Date Posted: 07:55:58 09/03/02 Tue
Author: Sherry
Subject: Toughening up

So far this Body for Life program is toughening me up good. Yesterday's workout was a little rough, and Sunday and today's aerobic excercise just about killed me. (I hate aerobics, no one is EVER going to make me like it).

But I'm doing it and although it may be my imagination I'm already starting to feel spots on my body where it seems that the fat is going away. I bought some body fat calipers and used them yesterday. They are supposed to be the most accurate way of measuring short of hydrostatic weighing. (where they dunk you in water and do some sort of measurement of how high the water rises or something like that).

Anyway the number I got was 36.87% using the 7 point measurement, and 36.9 using the one point measurement. Sounded close enough to me. My Tanita scale was saying 44 percent a couple of days ago, 46% yesterday and 48% today. I guess I don't much like it. How could you gain 4% body fat while dieting and excercising? That thing is supposed to measure you differently depending on how well hydrated you are.

So I'll go with the calipers as my start point. What this means for me is that if I keep the current amount of muscle mass in my body (and I should gain some with all this excerise) my goal weight has to change to between 166 and 178 (for 15% to 23%) body fat ratios. In a way that is really reassuring. I no longer have to aim for that nearly impossible 130 I've had in my head for so long. If these body fat calculations are accurate that means I already have 141 pounds of lean body mass (my weight with only muscle bones and organs NO fat) so getting to 130 would mean losing muscle.

That means at the high end I have only 45 pounds left to lose! (And if I gain 10 pounds of muscle which is one of my goals it will only be 35!) Hey I might even be able to do that someday. I've already lost 59. (sure sounds better than 93).

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sherry...you're well on your "weigh"stay strong! (NT) -- kim, 08:40:59 09/03/02 Tue