BuffedWildCat’s BodyBlog

There have been many changes in my life over the last 6 months.  We put our house up for sale in NC, I had a baby, we moved into a friend’s house to rent, and now we have just moved to Crestview, FL.  Amongst all this I’ve tried to stay in shape and since my daughter’s birth I have tried to work on getting my pre-pregnancy body back.

I’m happy to report that I have lost 2 inches off my waist so far, and have lost in other areas as well, legs, hips/butt, etc.  My daughter is 4 months old, so not too shabby I think especially considering that things haven’t been ideal as far as dieting and working out.  We moved to FL on the 16th and just yesterday we finally got the garage cleared up enough to put some of our free weight equipment up.  So with moving, I had to take an unscheduled 2 week break from exercise.  Of course dieting hasn’t been ideal either since I’ve been SOOO super busy that I haven’t been eating right, mainly not eating enough and when I was eating it was whatever I could grab, quick, processed foods.  Despite all this I’ve done pretty well.  And now things can only get better since we are just about all settled in our new place, I’ve got some weight equipment available to use, and I’m finally going to get to start speed skating again, tomorrow as a matter-of-fact!!  Woohoo!!  I haven’t speed skated, at least not consistently, since 2004, when I got pregnant the first time!  So this will help me shed those last bits of fat, yay!

What’s really weird though, is that after losing all but 3 lbs of my pre-pregnancy weight right off the bat, I continue to be stuck at 145-146 lbs!  But yet my waist measurement went from 31.5 inches down to 29.5 inches (my mid-section has been noticeably tightening up), so I know I’ve been losing, and the way my pre-pregnancy jeans fit also attest to that.  But yet the scale isn’t budging, telling me I still have 2-3 extra lbs on me, and most days I still cannot get my wedding ring on!  The only thing I can think of is that I have some weird fluid issues going on.  I also keep waking up with my hands and/or fingers asleep which also started happening during my pregnancy so it’s like I’ve still got pregnancy induced carpal tunnel syndrome.  It’s caused by fluid build-up and usually goes away after pregnancy.  But for some reason I think, I must be, still having fluid retention issues, I have no idea why but hopefully it will correct itself soon.

And that’s the scoop here.  In a nutshell, we’re moved and I’m getting back into the swing of things, well on my way to having my pre-pregnancy body back, not much more to go and I’ll have it!

I’m FINALLY getting around to getting on here, just been WAY, WAY, too busy and sleep deprived to even think about logging on until now.  I will type more later, again, sometime, I’m out of time now (as usual, story of my life these days) but I thought I’d type a quick blog to let you all know that Karissa arrived safe & sound via C-section at 9:54 AM on Monday Sept 15, 2008.  She was 6 lbs 7 oz and 18.75 inches long.  By contrast Conner was 7 lbs 15 oz and 20 inches long when he was born, so quite a difference there.  Anyway, by coincidence I guess, Karissa would have arrived on Monday Sept 15 anyway whether or not I picked that day to have the C-section!  I actually started having contractions at about 5 AM the morning of my surgery!  We left for the hospital at 6:30 AM and by that time the contractions were about 10 min apart.  Then they had me up on the pre-op table getting me ready and my water broke, THEN, the contractions REALLY started coming fast and HARD!  All I wanted then was for them to hurry up and give me the spinal already cause I wanted to be FREE of the PAIN!!  So though we were informed that they were running behind on the C-sections, they had to hurry it up anyway to get me in there.  My C-section was scheduled for 9 AM but they were running behind.  Well, they couldn’t run too far behind cause she was coming whether they were ready or not, LOL!  So anyway, that’s the story.  Now I’m just extremely busy taking care of her and Conner.  She is eating about every 3-4 hours and unfortunately she has her nights and days mixed up (what baby doesn’t, Conner did too) so I’m up all night with her with barely any sleep then I have to be awake all day yet to take care of Conner!  So the only real sleep I get isn’t until hubby comes home from work in the evenings then he takes over while I sleep.  Hopefully this won’t go on for too much longer but I certainly won’t hold my breath on it!  By 4 months old most babies will sleep 6-8 hours straight overnight without any feedings so hopefully that will hold true for Karissa cause I sure am tired of being tired!  Sleep deprivation is NO fun!  Just…  gotta… get thru…another…  few… months….  of this….  ugh…  gotta… make it.  I’ll be SO GLAD when that part is over!  The first 3-4 months are definitely the hardest when it comes to taking care of a baby!  Twice is DEFINITELY enough for me!  Heh.

And in other news…  so I lost all but 3.5 lbs of my pregnancy weight in the first month.  Same thing happened with Conner, lost all but 3 lbs in the first month.  Interesting…  Now I just need to tighten back up, mainly.  I can already make out 4 packs when I flex my abs.  ~grin~  I should have my pre-preggo body back by summertime, yippee!

Latest news in my pregnancy is that I have gotten my scheduled C-section date of Sept 15th.  My baby daughter will be arriving around 9:15 AM on Sept 15th.  Other than that the pregnancy is going well.  I’m having more achiness this second time around and for some reason over the past week or so I am getting a lot of middle back pain which I never even had with my first pregnancy.  So this second pregnancy has definitely been more challenging than my first starting with the nausea in the beginning which I didn’t have at all with my first pregnancy.  And for some reason this time around, this little girl, boy when she pushes and kicks in there sometimes it really hurts!  I don’t remember it hurting when I was pregnant with my son.  I don’t know why that is, perhaps it has something to do with my whole mid-section support structure not being as strong since I was stretched out once already.  Oh and of course trying to bend over at all or get to my feet is VERY uncomfortable and next to impossible!  Yeah, I’m at the point now, just past 8 months, that the pregnancy has gotten pretty uncomfortable cause my belly’s so big, or at least it feels like it!  I sometimes have trouble getting comfortable at night, can’t bend over hardly at all, can’t twist, like to turn back to look for cars coming when I’m driving, etc.
Anyway, I am still working out.  I’m still weight training and doing cardio.  Pulldowns for back have become pretty darn uncomfortable because it just pulls too much in my mid-section, I’ve really had to cut the weight there.  You just don’t realize how much your core muscles are involved in all your lifts, especially in pulldowns, until your whole mid-section is all stretched out like a rubber band leaving you virtually no strength in your core!  I’ve lost 15-20 lbs in my major lifts, 5-10 lbs in other lifts.  It’ll take me a while to get my strength back after I have the baby, as it would anyway, but more so for me due to the C-section.  For cardio I’m down to mostly using my nordic track because it’s just gotten too hot outside these days to be outside walking or biking.  In addition, the biking up and down the hills/mountains around here pregnant AND pulling an extra 55 lbs with my 3 year old son in the trailer just became too taxing.  I couldn’t make it up a lot of hills and I was having to catch my breath, (I even fell trying to get off my bike once, I was that exhausted) couldn’t get enough air, etc.  So that’s when I decided that unless I could find flat terrain, that the biking had to come to an end.  I think I was trying to push myself way too hard especially since I had trouble catching my breath and definitely couldn’t hold any sort of conversation and that started worrying me that the baby might also not be getting enough oxygen.  So I stopped.  Other than the nordic track for cardio, I skate at the local skating rink when I can, the last two Mondays it’s been too crowded for it to be safe for me.  I had to sit out.  The DJ said once the kids go back to school it won’t be as crowded, but yeah, there have just been too many little kids and even tho I’m a good skater, it’s the other people and kids who are NOT good skaters that I gotta watch out for and this far along it’s just too much of a risk when it’s crowded like it was last night.  It kills me to just sit there and watch my buddies skate but I just have to get over it for the sake of my unborn daughter.  Hopefully once the kids go back to school I will have 4 last good Monday skate nights.  Phew…  with all that said…  in addition to a new baby, there are a lot of other changes going on in my life this year…

My husband is retiring from the Air Force in November and is currently looking for his next job.  The bad news is that as much as I love this area (of western NC), have lots of friends here, and really wanted for us to settle down here, it looks like we are going to have to move out of state.  The good paying jobs are just not here but instead are in Ohio and Illinios.  Several of my husband’s previous Air Force co-workers who have retired are now working for a good company up in the Dayton, OH area.  It really looks like that’s where we’re going to end up moving, much as it pains me to do so, but, bills have to be paid and food has to be put on the table so what can ya do?  So in addition to the big change of hubby retiring and getting a new job for the first time in 20 years, we’re looking at a move as early as November and probably out of state.  We just put our house on the market to sell about a week ago and plan on being out and moved into a friend’s house by Sept 1st.  We have a good friend who owns a business who is shutting down his business in this area and moving down to SC and he wants to rent his house here out to us.  So we are going to do that.  We are hoping that our house sells within the next month so that we won’t have to come up with a rent AND a house payment and then when/if we need to move out of state, we will be free from trying to sell a house.  Even if by some miracle we CAN stay here, the house we are going to be renting is an upgrade from the place we live in now with more bedrooms and a huge shop for hubby to work on his cars, etc.  We would be perfectly happy to just rent to own our friend’s house which he would let us do if we can stay.  Regardless, I really want to be OUT of our current house BEFORE our baby daughter arrives because if by chance our house is NOT sold til then, I do NOT want to still be in it with a newborn and a toddler and have to try and cater to people wanting to come in and look at our house.  It would be way too much for me to try and take care of a toddler and a newborn, breastfeeding around the clock, PLUS try to keep the house show-ready all while trying to get enough sleep, NO THANKS!!  It was hard enough on me the first time around with my son, breastfeeding him around the clock and only getting to nap around the clock and I didn’t even have another child then NOR a house to have show ready and be prepared to cater to people wanting to come in and look at my house.  So I made it VERY clear to my husband that we need to be OUT of here, BEFORE the baby comes whether we have to make two payments (rent and house) or not.  Hopefully our house will sell before we have to start paying rent otherwise my husband’s never gonna be home (which means zilcho help for me with a newborn and a toddler) because he’ll be working two jobs everyday just so we can pay all the bills.  So yeah, lots of changes coming up, it’s probably going to be a tough time for me for a while.  And that’s the latest news with me, for anyone interested.  I probably won’t post again until we’re moved and settled into wherever we end up, I think there will just be too much going on with having a newborn and moving for me to even think about posting a blog here.  Until then, take care everyone and keep training hard!

Took me a while to post this but the new news is that I’ve hit my goal of becoming pregnant, heh.  As of Friday, April 18th, I was exactly 4 1/2 months along.  Weight gain has been right where it should be, 8 lbs gained as of Friday, so I’m pleased with that.  I have continued to weight train and get cardio in, usually about 3 times per week at a minimum of 30 min.  I have lost strength but it’s nothing that can be helped.  I’m sure my strength loss would be even worse if I stopped lifting during my pregnancy.  I am still session skating on Monday nights at the local skating rink from 7-10 PM and I also usually get in 50-60 min of brisk walking pushing my almost 3 yr old son in the stroller and an hour of off road mountain type biking pulling my son in a bike trailer, which adds up to about 55 lbs.  That is without a doubt the most challenging for me, being pregnant and pulling an extra 55 lbs behind me trying to peddle up hills.  And it’s not like I was in shape for mountain biking in the first place, heh!  So yeah, long story short, I’m staying active, doing my best to stay in the best shape possible during my entire pregnancy.  I’ll be doing all these activities up until the day I give birth via a planned C-section.  Then after I recover from the Cesarean birth I’ll be doing my best to start lifting and doing some cardio again around breastfeeding and trying to get some sleep, plus taking care of two kids and a house (yeah, that’ll be a challenge in itself!), getting myself on the road to getting my pre-pregnancy physique back and once again being in the best shape possible.  And that’s the latest here!

Still trying to get pregnant, coming up on try #3.  I still can’t get over that it’s taking me this long to get pregnant when I got pregnant the first time on the very first try.  But anyhoo… hopefully it’ll happen soon, there are several reasons why I want to be pregnant now as opposed to later.  One of the biggest reasons is because I want to have child #2 before child #1 turns 4 (he’s coming up on 2 1/2 right now) cause once child #1 turns 4, I’m wanting to do a lot more with him as far as getting him involved in different activities.  And I really don’t want to be trying to take care of an infant, with the breastfeeding and all, while trying to tote around a 4 yr old and do things with him.  I think it would be much easier to have a ONE year old while doing things with the 4 yr old.  Past experience tells me that I won’t feel like doing ANYTHING but sleeping during at least the first 6 months of child #2’s life, the breastfeeding is just a killer.  I’m the only one who can feed the infant and infants eat every 2-3 hours so every 2-3 hours I’ve got an infant on my breast, makes it difficult to get much quality sleep at a time.  So anyway, that’s that, as far as my training and diet goes, I’m still weight training 4 times a week, two day split, so hitting all upper body muscles twice a week, usually.  Still skating once a week, I’m now taking my son skating once a week too.  I want to give him the opportunity that I didn’t have, to become a good skater.  He also walks pigeon-toed, so putting skates on him will help since he has to keep his feet pointed forward to go anywhere.  My diet, well, not much of a diet, just eating really.  I am still tracking everything I put into my mouth on fitday, that will always be the case.  So since Nov 1st I’ve averaged 2350 calories and my weight is staying at 142 lbs, works for me, as even at 142 lbs I am pretty pleased with the amount of muscle definition I have (see Sept pics).  So I will just keep doing what I’m doing, once I get pregnant is when the challenge will begin, or I should say about a month AFTER I get pregnant, as that was about the time I really started FEELING pregnant the first time, with all the fatigue and what not, then it became more challenging for me to get thru my workouts.  That’s all for now, will keep you posted. 

Keeping in mind that my activity level has been the same for MONTHS, basically stay-at-home mom duties and the same workout/exercise routine.  But anyway, here is something strange that just happened that I thought I’d mention in my blog…
Over the course of 5 days, my calories averaged 1947 (not one day even at 2000 calories) and my weight went UP 2.5 lbs.

Over the next course of 5 days, (when I said heck with it, I’m tired of restricting myself, of being hungry much of the time), my calories averaged 2463 (lowest day 2232 and highest day 2741) and I LOST 3.5 lbs!!

I’m still trying to figure this one out.  I don’t see how it could be a water issue since I should have actually retained MORE water if anything during these last 5 days cause of my eating less clean than usual.  So I’m really not seeing any reason it could just be a simple water issue.  Or perhaps it is a bowel issue, as I do have constipation problems when my carbs are lower, which they would have been on the 5 days of lower calories, so maybe I’m just not as full of shit anymore??  LOL.  (Note to self, from now on keep notes of bowel movements, heh).  Anyway, the only other explanation I can come up with is that I’ve perhaps revved up my metabolism??  Maybe my body has figured out that it’s not starving anymore?  As we all should know by now, when you eat under your maintenance calories for an extended period of time, the body’s metabolism does slow down (some more than others depending on your genetics) and your body hangs onto every bit of fat that it can.  So once you raise your calories back up for long enough, something seemingly magical happens, suddenly you start dropping weight again cause your body is no longer in starvation mode!
Now I don’t know if that’s what’s going on with me or not, let’s hope it is, but all I do know is that it sure is nice to be finally dropping some unneeded weight without having to starve my ass off!  Yay!!  Oh, and yes, I am still planning/hoping I am pregnant.  I just won’t know til the 22nd, pregnancy tests ya know, you can’t take them too early.  But if all went as planned, I should hopefully be pregnant now, we’ll see…
So no, I’m not actively trying to lose weight anymore, obviously, it just happened, without my even trying.  I was originally planning on keeping my cals around 2000 then increasing them up to about 2250 once I found out I was pregnant but it looks like that’s just not gonna happen now.  I mean seeing as how I’ve lost 3.5 lbs on an average of 2463 calories, heh, I’ll still watch it, still track my calories, but put it this way, if I’m hungry I’m going to eat and I’m going to eat til I’m not hungry anymore, not like before when I’d eat and still be hungry but have to wait until the next meal, screw that!  Also, another good reason to NOT restrict yourself too much on calories during your pregnancy is because you want to be able to start a new diet after you have the baby with a metabolism that is running full throttle and not be compromised from the getgo by having restricted yourself already during the pregnancy.  Know what I mean?  That way you’ve got a lot of room for slowly decreasing calories when you need to and you’re not already starting off at restricted calories, not good, just not the best way to go about losing weight.  So anyway, I won’t go nutty and eat a bunch of junk food or everything in sight sorta thing, but just eat when I’m hungry and eat enough so that I’m not hungry anymore, as opposed to eating til I’m full or stuffed, there’s a difference ya know, not that I WON’T do that once in a while though, heh. 

So August was a busy month for me with traveling and visiting family so basically I ended up taking a break from my diet, about 3 weeks if I counted correctly.  During that time/those days, I either didn’t track my diet at all or I tracked it just to see what amount of calories I was eating when allowing myself as much as I wanted.  Mostly it seems I like eating around 2400-2500 calories, no surprise to me really cause I’ve been tracking my diet for YEARS now.  Some days, days I ate WAY too much JUNK FOOD, my calories were as high as 3660!!!  WOW!!  Anyway, so as far as I can tell there was about 25 days, so just over 3 weeks that I wasn’t watching what I ate over this last month and a half, (since August 1st).  Out of that time, there was 2 weeks when I also didn’t weight train, the two weeks that was spent traveling and/or visiting with family.  That brings me up to now…

Today I put myself back on an 1850 calorie meal plan (160P/112C/86F) to get rid of the extra pudge that I can feel around my lower abs/belly button area, ick.  It seems like that’s where all the extra calories went, heh.  Cause oddly enough, I still have my quad separation (when I flex) and that really surprises me since my lower body is where I carry most of my fat and it’s always the hardest to get rid of fat there while being the first place I put it back on, but apparently not this time around.  I probably shouldn’t even worry about it since winter is fast approaching but I just can’t stand feeling and seeing that extra pudge that wasn’t there before.

The break I took from my diet (and the two weeks off training) really did me good though because I am definitely, without a doubt, stronger than I was prior to the break.  I am putting up an extra 5 lbs on most of my lifts at the SAME REP RANGE now!!  Woohoo!!  I am also back to what seems to be my normal weight, my body ALWAYS seems to want to settle around 140 lbs (give or take 2 lbs) and in the past it’s the weight I’ve always been the strongest at.  So there are advantages to being a bit pudgier, lol.  So anyway, prior to all the traveling and visiting with family, I was weighing in at 137-138 lbs, now I have been consistently weighing in at 141.5 lbs.   Back on a meal plan I go, it’s the only way I can keep my weight down and my physique where I want it.

And that’s what’s going on with me, thought I’d go ahead and write this update to let those interested/curious, know. 

So I did an analysis of my progress from May 8, 2006 to May 31, 2007.  I broke it up into two periods of time, the first is just my attempts at getting my pre-pregnancy physique back, the second period of time starts from the date I made big changes to my diet in preparation for a bodybuilding competition.  Here are the interesting results:

May 8, 2006 to Feb 13, 2007 - Just my life, my personal attempt at getting my pre-pregnancy physique back.

Average Calories:  2159

Average Macronutrient ratio:  139P/210C/91F

Diet was clean but not competition clean, I ate slow burning carbs like sweet potatoes and oatmeal, whole wheat bread and pasta, etc.  Basically I ate according to my General Nutritional Guidelines that I have posted up numerous times in the female forum.

Body Weight:  134-142 with 137 lbs being the average

Body Fat in April 2006:  19.83%

Body Fat 17 Feb 2007:  19.48%

So as you can see, there was virtually NO CHANGE in my body composition in that entire 9 months!  I mean you could attribute the difference to margin of error.  Training-wise I did only cardio until the end of Aug of 2006 cause I had severe DeQuervain’s tendinitis and couldn’t lift.  I hiked once or twice a week for hours at a time with my son in the backpack and inline skated at a local skating rink.

Feb 14, 2007 - May 31, 2007  I started on a Beverly International 16 week out diet and made other dietary changes from there (as you would as you get closer to your BB comp).

Average Calories:  2099  (so only 60 cals less than the previous 9 mo)

Average Macronutrient Ratio:  189P/136C/91F

So basically I raised my protein intake and dropped my carbohydrate intake.  I was also eating competition clean (still am).

Body Weight:  132 - 140 lbs  I am still fluctuating depending on how long I actually stick on my diet of under 100g of carbs.  But my average weight seems to be around 135 lbs unless I pig out on carbs.

Body Fat 17 Feb 07:  Again, was 19.48%  (7 point Jackson/Polluck Method)

Body Fat 17 May 07 (exactly 3 months later):  17.58%

Now granted 1.9% of change isn’t that much but if you look at my progress pics, and even better if you saw me in person, my physique ROCKS now, compared to what it was 3 months ago!!  I’ve got all kinds of muscle definition, even more so than I had in my pre-pregnancy pics and all because I cracked down on my diet by DROPPING MY CARBS AND EATING CLEANER.  I MEAN I ONLY AVERAGED A MEASLY 60 CALORIES LESS THAN THE PREVIOUS 9 MONTHS BUT YET THE RESULTS ARE ASTOUNDING!!!  I have succeeded in changing my body composition JUST BY DROPPING CARBS AND CLEANING UP MY DIET!!!  THE CALORIES ARE VIRTUALLY THE SAME!!  So this goes out to all those doubt my advice or who think you can achieve a better body composition by eating ice cream as long as you keep your calories below maintenance, I DON’T BELIEVE IT FOR A SECOND!!!  You don’t get more muscle and less fat by eating stuff like ice cream, I don’t care if your calories are below maintenance or not!

Oh, I should also mention, that during this last 3 months I have been doing more heavy weight training, at least 4 days a week but closer to 5 days a week whereas the previous 9 months I was not weight training at all in the beginning and then in late Aug I started again but was only weight training 2-3 times per week but was doing more cardio.  Now currently, my cardio consists only of going session skating twice a week and at the beginning of this 3 month time period my cardio consisted only of walking on a treadmill twice a week for 30 min!  The only reason I skate now instead is just because I love it and it happens to be my only form of a social life, so basically my skating is leisurely skating and of course I don’t skate constantly the entire skating session, I do a lot of talking too, heh.
SO THE BOTTOM LINE HERE IS THAT I GOT BETTER RESULTS BY TIGHTENING UP ON MY DIET, WEIGHT TRAINING MORE, AND DOING LESS CARDIO!!!

I decided not to do the bodybuilding competition… for several reasons.  My body fat loss was not occurring rapidly enough for me to be down to about 8% by June 9th.  I had my diet as strictly clean as it could be, was eating like I would be about 2 weeks out from a comp and the fat just wasn’t coming off fast enough.  The only other option I had was to drop more carbs/cals, which I had plenty of room to do so, however, even upon dropping my carbs to just under 100 grams a day, I started having low blood sugar issues.  I bought a glucometer which confirmed that my blood sugar was dropping dangerously too low so I really could not drop more carbs/cals without endangering my health, plus, I’m just not the type of person who wants to walk around feeling all weak, shaky, and like I’m going to pass out.  To me, any BB comp just isn’t worth that.  A male friend of mine who was helping me agreed and did not want me to drop my carbs/cals any lower for the sake of safety (and he would have refused to help me had I wanted to do it anyway).

This doesn’t mean I can never compete, it just means that I would need to start cutting further out, like 6 months instead of 4, in order to have enough time to drop enough fat since my body won’t/can’t handle too rapid of carb/cal drops without going hypoglycemic. I found that my body does adapt eventually to the point that my blood sugar is no longer an issue, or at least it has so far cause I am still doing the diet of just under 100 grams of carbs and now I’m just fine.  It seems I just have to give my body more time to get used to decreased carbs/cals and also decrease them nice and slowly to avoid low blood sugar issues.  Bottom line, I just didn’t have enough time to drop enough fat for the comp.  And there was no way I was going to go thru with it if I thought I wouldn’t be lean enough cause I don’t want to go into a competition feeling like I’m not at my best.

The other issue was that according to the caliper measurements, (altho oddly enough, I was not losing any strength and was even gaining strength in some lifts), I was losing too much muscle and at this point in my life, that isn’t something I want to do.  I have been busting my ass trying to get back the strength and muscle I lost whilst pregnant so in my eyes, a BB comp just wasn’t worth losing the strength and muscle that I have worked so hard to get back.   So anyway, that’s the story on that.

My current goal is to just continue cutting to get as lean as I can this summer,specifically, as lean as I’ve EVER been!  My diet is indeed working, (YAY), I’m definitely losing fat, just not very rapidly, with me there’s just a limit to how fast I can lose fat without getting hypoglycemic and losing too much muscle (I suppose there is with anybody really, but trying to do this comp has taught me that I need more time than probably most people do to get ripped enough for a comp).  I am diligently searching for an experienced physique photographer who will be in my area sometime this year, hopefully this summer or even fall, so that I can do a photo shoot, something I’ve been wanting badly for quite a few years now!  Then by mid-October I am planning to slowly raise my carbs/cals and then really focus on gaining muscle and strength.  By mid-February I plan on starting my cut again to be ripped for the summer.

Thanks to all of you who have been asking about me, supporting me, and sending me compliments!  I really appreciate it, it sure helps keep me going! 

8 Apr 07

Weight: 132 lbs

Bodyfat: 17.9%

Fat lbs: 23.2

LBM:  108.8 lbs

18 March 07

Weight:  136.5 lbs

Bodyfat:  18.8%

Fat lbs:  25.6

LBM:  110.9 lbs