Stay with me…the metaphor makes sense!

If you’ve not been hiding under a rock, then you’re aware that scientists are concerned about the high number of melting glaciers. When you’re standing next to one, you think it isn’t changing that much, but when you video over time and then speed it up…BAM, it becomes obvious that it is changing and shrinking!

Think of when you dump some ice into your sink.  If you stand there and watch it…nothing much seems to be happening, but if you go away and come back in an hour, then the ice is either completely gone or mostly gone.

Getting fit, healthy, and in better shape is a lot like that. Seeing the day to day changes is a lot like watching an ice cube melt.  It is hard to see, but if you keep at it, keep doing a little bit at a time and take teeny tiny steps, eventually you’ll see progress.  Eventually you’ll see the fat shrink away, kinda like those melting glaciers.

My “Results” for last week / My “Goals” for this week:

Here were my very modest goals for last week:

• Do the morning numbers at least 5 days – seven would be better
  — I did.  Exactly 5.  I missed two days.
  • Goal for this week: do all morning measurements for all 7 days!
    
• Take my daily meds both am & pm all seven days
  — I missed 2 pm doses and 1 am does
  • Goal for this week: do ALL AM & PM does – no misses.  This a big deal because I’m a diabetic and I have high blood pressure!
• Lift 3 days
  — Yeah right!  Didn’t do a single day. Ugh.
  • Goal for this week: Lift for 3 days
    
• Move 2 days
  — YAY!!!!  I actually met my goal and more.  I “moved” FOUR DAYS!!!
  • Goal for this week: Move 3 days
    
• Stretch 6 days
  — Uhmmm…. failed horribly on this one… only ONE day did I do any stretching
  • Goal for this week: Stretch 6 days
    
• Use Slim-Fast for breakfast & lunch at least 5 days – seven would be better.
  — I did this, I think, kinda, sorta, mostly, more than not…I started off tracking this and then stopped, but my somewhat faulty memory of the week tells me that even if I didn’t do this exactly as planned, I did it MOST of the time! 
  • Goal for this week: Use Slim-Fast for breakfast & lunch at least 5 days 

It’s always going to be a mixed bag

That last goal up above pretty much sums things up.  The best laid plans of mice and men and all that.  Life gets complicated very fast and plans go astray.  But as long as you’re doing SOMETHING, you will make progress.

Glaciers are built up one snow flake at a time.  They melt one drop of water at a time.

Getting fit is like that, it requires dedication and quite a bit of patience.

Now for the numbers:

I started my newest “fitness effort”  about two weeks ago when I got on the scale and freaked out at how much I had gained during the Pandemic.

I started recording my weight on Nov 28th — on that date my numbers were:

• Weight 299.8 lbs
• Body Fat: 42.65%
• Muscle: 25%
• Visceral Fat: 30%

Now, as of yesterday, Dec 7th, my numbers are:

• Weight 292 lbs — Loss of 7.8 lbs
• Body Fat: 42.25% — Loss of .4 %
• Muscle: 23.6% — Loss of 1.4% — Not good!  I need to loose Fat, not muscle
• Visceral Fat: 30% — same.  No change

See ya on the dance floor! 🙂