Into Week 78
Wow, a couple of weeks that I haven’t posted a blog. It’s been pretty busy around here, not the least of which was getting ready to go away for a few days over the Easter weekend.
I went and visited friends from college, with whom I spend every Easter. They are very good friends and when their kids were little they thought the Easter Bunny wouldn’t come to their house if "Uncle DA" wasn’t there. Great friends, lousy eaters.
I blogged about my visit last year with these folks and nothing has changed. The wife and hubby are endomorphs with atrocious eating habits. Wife is terribly opinionated in that everything she does is the "right" way whether it’s child rearing, household management or nutrition and meal planning; no discussion, she’s always right. An example meal from this weekend? Hamburgers and popcorn. Another example meal? Try no meal because wifey was "still full from the big lunch we had," so therefore no one else was expected to want food. And there I was, being very used to eating every three hours, having a dinner meal that includes not only some protein but some veggies as well (I guess popcorn is a vegetable, right?). And forget any working out, just wasn’t gonna happen.
Surprisingly enough, I came through the four-day stint up only about a pound. I was at 166 Thursday morning before I left and was at 167 this afternoon. Not bad for living on hamburgers and popcorn and bowls of ice cream, and meal times that were sometimes up to six hours apart. Sheesh.
And speaking of the weight, I need to do some investigating with some scales. I have been weighing myself all along with a scale I bought back when I started into the lifting and diet minding, dutifully recording and agonizing over my weight for the last 78 weeks. The other day I was doing some cleaning in the house and was in my dad’s bathroom and spotted his scale in there, having to move it as I was vacuuming, and for grins I got on his scale. It read significantly higher than mine! It was zeroed properly. What the…? I took it upstairs and put it next to mine and I tried them both dressed in only my skivvies, which is the way I weigh myself. His scale was reading ten pounds more than mine. I pulled out some of my dumbbells and tried them on each scale and they read the same. Even stranger. I am wondering if one or both of the scales is non-linear and reads incorrectly with more weight applied. Now I need to find a third scale for the deciding factor. Geez. That will be a major pain if my scale is the one that is wrong, that will mean ALL of my weight data since I started into this is likely no good.
But, no sense in losing sleep over it. I have gone through something similar with the body fat pinch calipers. Bottom line: I have lost weight and dropped body fat. I just don’t have exact numbers on either!! Oh, and the body fat pinch I took tonight is down yet another 1.5 mm from the previous pinch 10 days ago, so the downward march continues.
Now that I am back home, I am glad to be able to keep liftin’.
