Weight Update for Apr 26

Wow, I felt like I hadn't weighed myself in awhile, but it turns out I totally weighed myself last week, too!  So here's what I got today:

weight: 209.0 lbs
fat percentage: 46.8%
hydration: 36.5%
muscle: 26.2%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2339

I'm thinking I'm going to start doing a weekly weight update again.  I know I said I wasn't going to focus on my weight as much this year, but I feel like the weekly check-in used to help keep me on track in terms of thinking about my health and yearly goals.  

Thinking about my goals, I kind of fell off the band wagon.  I had three weeks in a row (Apr 1-7, 8-14, and 15-21) where I ate out two or three times a week.  I also haven't tried a new recipe since Apr 1-7th, and I've been exercising for less than 60 minutes a week since the middle of March (with the exception of Apr 1-7th).  I have still been walking a bit during that time, but walking doesn't count towards my weekly 60 minute total of exercise.

I also had an interesting thing happen the other day at work.  Someone brought in a giant tub of cheeseballs.  I took a bunch home and ate most of them as a snack yesterday.  While I love cheeseballs, they just weren't very satisfying anymore; I felt so much better when a few hours later I ate a home made taco full of black beans.

So I need to make a more conscious effort to get myself back on track.  I'm not sure why, but I've been having a really hard time getting up in the morning (and so not wanting to do any kind of workout).  I'll have to see if I can get myself up a bit better, or else come up with some sort of plan for later in the day (or on days when I work first thing in the morning).

Weight Update for Apr 18

I weighed myself yesterday (since it was after my period), and here are the numbers I got:

weight: 209.0 lbs
fat percentage: 45.0%
hydration: 37.8%
muscle: 27.1%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2339

So that's good, my weight and fat percentage have come down a little bit since the beginning of the month.  I'm also really glad to see this happening since this last week hasn't been good, eating-wise.  It was a friend's birthday over the weekend, so I went out for dinner.  Then on Monday and Tuesday I was doing some training for work and ate out for lunch on both days.  I also haven't gotten enough sleep over the last week (thanks in part to the training, since I had to be up early on both days compared to when I normally get up). 

Weight Update for Apr 4 + Dexcom!

I weighed myself earlier in the week and just forgot to post it.  So here are those numbers:

weight: 209.6 lbs
fat percentage: 45.9%
hydration: 37.1%
muscle: 26.6%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2343

I'm not really surprised that my weight has increased a bit, along with my fat percentage.  Over the last few weeks I've been eating out more than normal (only once a week so far, so that's in line with my year's goal, but that's still more than in previous months where I ate out once or twice a month, compared with weekly).  My workouts have also lessened since Mar 18th - on that week I did 10 minutes (but lots of walking), and on the following week I did only 30 minutes (again with a bunch of walking).  Today I just finished a big stretching workout, which brought my total workout minutes for the week up to 60 (in line with my goal), but I did a whole lot less walking.  So I need to try to get myself more active through the week.

I also really feel like I've been eating like crap lately.  Like yesterday when I pigged out on chocolate all day long (that was partially because I was super tired, and so really hungry, but also because I didn't plan well enough to bring healthy snacks with me).  I think in the coming weeks I need to make sure I'm getting enough sleep (where possible), and otherwise bringing snacks with me rather than relying on junk food in the coffee room at work. 

But in other news, last week my Dexcom G5 arrived!  I got it up and running last night, so the first sensor hasn't been on for 24 hours yet.  I tried getting their app working on their phone, but something went wrong and it stopped loading.  Thankfully I decided to get a receiver, too, so I'm just using that right now (which totally works for me).  My thoughts in getting the receiver was that my work won't want me on my phone all the time (plus it would be a temptation to check my phone for other things while at work), I don't want to be on my phone all the time, and when I go camping during the summer I definitely won't want to be on my phone the whole time.  Plus having a second method to view the results is always better than just having one method. 

I've been super impressed with how accurate the G5 has been so far (the first few times I looked last night, it was within 0.2 mmol/L of a blood sugar test, which is phenomenal during the first day!)  I was also very impressed with how easy the sensor was to put on, even with the scary-looking inserter (thank goodness I started getting over my fears of using the inserters back when I had Enlight sensors a few years ago). 

I should also note that when I was purchasing my sensors, I was chatting with the Dexcom rep about the trouble I had with the Freestyle Libre, and he told me he knows of no one who has had skin trouble with the Dexcom.  That's very exciting all on its own!  I hope that remains true for me as well, but only time will tell with that.