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  HAPPY EASTER !!!!

Weight today: 208.2 (5 days on plateau)

% Body Fat: 33%

Today may not count as a true Plateau as the fat % was lower, but then again I have expressed a lttle doubt in the accuracy of the second number in that measure. Meaning, as much as I love my Taylor scale, I suspect it is plus/minus a couple of percentage points so I am really focused on getting it under 30% rather than worrying over the 33 versus 32.

I worked out yesterday. Let me tell you, Pullups are just as hard as I remembered them, but I am less sore now than I was after my first workout with pullups added back in. For those of you who have been reading for awhile you will remember that when I say “pullups” right now I mean “negatives” because I can’t “pullup” my own body weight. I found a program online that discusses how to diagnose and correct a deficiency in pullups. Click here for that program.

So, that program plus my Door Gym has been making me sore. I am enjoying being sore though. Unless I completely misunderstood everything I have read about building muscle, then some light soreness equals some gains in muscle.

Anyway, enough abot working out. The blog is supposed to be about dieting (though the exercise is a CRITICAL component in weight loss). Actually, that is so important let me say it again without the parenthesis. Exercise is a CRITICAL component in achieving your (my) weight loss goals!!! Today I need to go run. I am feeling pretty good about my new 3.6 mile run. My HR stays right arounf 160-165 the whole time which is a little above the optimal “fat burning” zone, but I can’t slow down anymore or I will be running backwards. (Click here to calculate your optimal exercise heart rate)

Once you look at your target heart rate, you should read this article (CLICK HERE) about % fat burned in the fat burning zone. I am way above these numbers. I don’t know exactly what the means for weight loss, but I like jogging and it keeps my heart rate in the 160’s.

So anyway…today I have eaten:

• 1 Meal Replacement Shake (breakfast)
• coffee with non dairy sweetener and splenda
• granola bar (snack #1)
• Water
• granola bar (snack #2)
• whole wheat bagel with non-fat cream cheese (lunch)
• meal replacement shake (lunch)
• orange
• granola bar (snack #3)
• orange
• 15 grapes
• granola bar (snack #4)
• 2 fat free beef hot dogs, 1/3 a serving of mac and cheese and a lite beer (dinner)
• 2 sugar free popsicles
• coffee with non dairy creamer and splenda
• diet soda
• lots of water
• 1 weight watchers cookies and cream bar (this didn’t fit anywhere so it was 140 calories over what I should have eaten today)
• 10 grapes

I ran 3.6 miles today and then walked an extra mile just because it was a BEAUTIFUL day.