My First Time Kickboxing

I checked out Duke's recreational kickboxing class this morning at 10:00. It's the first class I've made it to on Saturday morning since coming to Duke! It was on East Campus and Kyle plays basketball sometimes with a group meeting at the same time and place so it really worked out for us to encourage one another to actually work out this morning. The class was a pretty good aerobic workout. The instructor didn't really do much with form, I guess because it's an aerobics class and not real kickboxing, so I think I was doing a lot of the moves quite badly. But I worked up a sweat and the hour didn't crawl by. I don't like it as much as Body Tone or STEP but I might go back because of the convenience of the time and place.

No Loss Yet :(

I'm disappointed that I'm not losing weight so far. I've been right around 1050 - 1200 calories most days in the last week, with the exception of yesterday which I haven't calculated and the previous day, but both of those should be below 1800 which I consider my very upper limit for an "on" day. Still holding at 156.8 lbs according to my new scale. I wondered if I'm eating too LITTLE two days ago and slowing my metabolism which is why I went well above 1200 calories, which is supposed to be the don't-go-below-this absolute baseline for being healthy for me, according to the internet people. I did work on a bit on Wednesday and my pilates class sounds like it will be good (Mondays and Wednesdays). If I can get in early enough I'd like to do a short aerobic workout before the class.

Starting Point for Round 2

Official second day of the Wedding Body Preparation! I worked out today and haven't gone crazy with food so it's a good start.

Semi-official starting metrics (because I did it late in the day after eating/drinking):
157.4 lbs (eek high! - gives me a BMI of 28.8 "overweight")
35% body fat - this sounds high! but according to the booklet that came with my scale it is "moderate" and the high side of normal is 32%
48% body water - not sure how to interpret this yet

Oops I Got Fat! (But Not Quite Broke)

It turns out that blog are not super-good accountability partners. Step up, y'all!

In the past few months I've put on weight and am now the heaviest I have ever been in my life! Kyle and I snacked our way through his stressful prelim preparation this fall, so he is at his lifetime heaviest as well. But this just makes me determined to see the best comeback ever. Now that I am engaged I actually have to take this seriously as I would like to look my best on my wedding day(s) and honeymoon. I think if I could get back to my summer 2008 weight of around 132 lbs that would be awesome, but it might be too ambitious for the four or so months I have until the wedding. I have looked back at those pictures though and liked the way I looked. I don't know what my weight is right now but I got a scale for Christmas so my first weigh-in is tomorrow. The scale also does body fat percentage and water percentage. I suspect I'll be around 160 lbs! But again, it just makes for a more impressive loss. :)

I did manage to keep my eating-out and grocery spending down. In the last few months I have been under or barely over my eating-out goal amounts and well below my grocery goal amounts.

Starting today I am counting calories, fat, and food group servings as best I can. I got a new cookbook for Christmas that I'm eager to try out. It seems like Kyle is on board as well with losing some weight. I am signed up for a pilates class this fall and in the week between now and when it starts I'd like to get used to working out again and try to build up some strength. I'm hesitant to make a workout goal for this semester before it even starts. An ambitious goal is six days per week but a more realistic (but still challenging) one may be four to five days per week - two for pilates and the rest for aerobics.