I didn't specifically decide on a day to give my weekly update, but I was thinking about weighing myself this morning so today seemed like as good a day as any. I currently weigh: 208.2lbs, fat percentage: 45.1%, hydration: 37.7%, muscle: 27.0%, bone: 10.7%, cal: 2336. While I seem to have lost about 2lbs, I don't want to celebrate just yet: my period just ended, so most likely that's how I lost the weight. But the fat percentage came down slightly, too, so that's good (last time it was 46.2%).
Thinking of body fat percentage, I don't even know what a healthy one is. According to Gaiam a healthy one for a woman my age is 21-33%, while according to Built Lean it's 25-31 (although they don't break it down by age). So I guess shooting for the 25-31 is a pretty good target since that's right within Gaiam's range.
Since getting the Fitbit, I've spent the week sort of doing what I normally do while walking. I wanted to see how I'd do while working and just sort of going about my day. I thought at work I've been moving around a lot more in recent months. Turns out that's wrong. On Saturday I specifically didn't walk to and from work at all and only walked 4,974 steps. Now on days where I was able to walk to work once, I've taken over 9000 steps. So right there, it looks like I need to walk to work whenever I can. To date I have not cracked 10,000 steps, but I have come really close. 10,000 seems like a good goal since I remember hearing a long time ago that that's how many you should take each day.
On the swimming front, I have not gotten my membership yet and have not gone (even without one). My dad wants to go once a week with me, so we'll have to figure out when we want to start going.
On the eating front, this week I've been eating up some open bags of chips and other crap. I also made a point of not going out for dinner repeatedly with friends. I'm hoping that eating more home cooked meals will help a little bit.
So for this coming week, I need to decide on when to go swimming with my dad (and actually go once, even if I end up going alone) and try to crack 10,000 steps!
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