It's been a while since I've done a weigh-in. It was probably because I realized the scale that I've been using, my work scale, is all screwy. So my measurements in the title are from my home scale.
I lost a few pounds, but I put all that weight loss on me being sick the past week.
And, for good measure, I of course, weighed myself on the work scale. Three times.
118.4, 19.4%
118.4, 19.5%
118.4, 19.6%
So, while I'd like to believe that my body fat percentage still falls in the Athelete range like my work scale says, I guess I better live in the real world, and come to grips with that fact that I do not have the body fat percentage of an athelete. Well, at least my body fat percentage is in the Fitness range. For today at least.
I went to the gym this morning, thought about doing weights, but said screw it. I can always do P90X at home later. So I just ran with an intention of doing about 5 miles.
Well, I did 5 miles. But trust me - It was not pretty. The first mile, easy as always at 5.7. Then I upped it to 6.0 and got tired when the treadmill read 1.4 miles. Yeah, that was only running at that speed for .4 miles. :( So I walked for a tenth of mile and tried to pysche myself up again. I ran for another .4 miles again and got tired. Walked a tenth of a mile. Ran .4 mile. And repeat. I tried different speeds - 6.0, 6.1, 6.5. Yeah, I couldn't run for more than a half mile at any of those speeds.
After 4 miles, I made myself run the last mile at my easy 5.7. At least I was able to do that. I'm going to attribute these tired runs to my body still being tired from a week of the flu.
As I was walking out of the gym, they had a sign up that said something like, "Did you know cardio can increase your body fat percentage?" I didn't read the rest. That's tricky. It can increase your body fat percentage. I know sometimes when my weight goes down, my body fat percentage goes up. However, it made it sound like cardio was a bad thing. I think the sign was trying to trick people into signing up with a personal trainer to strength train. I know I need to strength train more. But I think that sign is just misleading.
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