Week 5 - Day 1

(wrote this yesterday... never posted...)

End of Week 4 Body Stats:

• Weight: 195lbs - I'll talk about this a little more in a moment...
• Wasit at belly button: 34"... THIRTY-FOUR INCHES!! I shit you not, folks. I shit you not. In case you're not picking up on the excitement... that's 2 and a fricken quarter inches!!! You know what else is super duper exciting? My "natural" waist? 32 inches. When I was 17 it was 29... only 3 inches away. That's pretty amazing and mind-blowing.
• Hips: 44" ...that's 1 1/4 inches!!!! 

 So, as you can probably tell... I'm pretty excited about those measurements. For serious. But now.. the weight issue. This is why the scale has never been my friend. The only time I ever used to weigh myself was either the one or two times a year I had to go to the doctor and they make you step on a scale... or like once a month at the gym, randomly, just out of morbid curiosity. I'm a super tall person... I'm 5'10", so that number is always disappointing to a certain extent because "skinny" for me is still like 150 or 160lbs... which would be considered over-weight for the average sized person.

The other thing is, before I got sick this week, I began some serious weight training. That pound might be muscle gain - which would be amazing. And I'm obviously doing something right to have lost so many inches this week. This makes me really excited to do full measurements again next Saturday with hopes that by Monday I'll be almost 100% and able to get into the gym at least 3 or 4 times during the week.

Now for some stats:

Day 1:

• total calories/points: 1'719 / 37  -- I was actually hungry enough to eat a full day's worth of food.
• no workout, but did actually get off the couch!
• 0 cigarettes - officially ONE WEEK smoke free!!!
• 1:30am bedtime
• $0 spent

Well, I made it through the bulk of the weekend without smoking. I'm pretty proud of myself. I have to say, the actually acts I don't miss.. the way it kind of defined a part of my personality, who I am/was, I miss a lot. Even though smoking is definitely NOT cool sometimes it definitely made me feel like I was cool. I think I'm going to be one of those people that not a day goes by where I don't think about having a cigarette. I guess we'll see. If I can get through the next couple weeks, great. My biggest challenge will be getting through the Spring, though. When the weather gets warm I smoke more just to have an excuse to be outside. Wish me luck!