Weight Loss Champeen!!!1!!

Cindy (my medicine-ball-and-chain) congratulated me on losing more weight in the past week than Ben. She qualified that with the old "it's not a competition" lie. Of course it is! I'm gonna pwn that guy! I jest. I did notice the difference though. I think it's important to realize that in the first two weeks of his body project, he lost 15 lbs. So, in a sense, he pwned me. It's all relative though. He did the boot camp thing and ran a 5K right out of the gate. He was also carrying around 80 more pounds than me - imagine wearing a backpack filled with 80 lbs all day, every day. I, on the other hand, am taking it easy. Also, It's a lot easier to lose the first chunk of weight. Eat right and get off of the couch once in a while and the weight just sloughs off.

When you get down closer to your happy place, I think that weighing yourself is pointless. There are gentlemen out there who wear carbon fibre armour, toss a ball around and bash into each other most Sundays who weigh well over 300 lbs but don't have an ounce of fat on them. I doubt they're worried about their weight. We've all heard that muscle weighs more than fat. It's more dense. At a certain point, a scale isn't going to give you an accurate picture of where you are fat-wise. In the beginning, it's valuable to get that positive feedback from a scale, but depend too much on it and it will get discouraging. At some point you just have to look in a mirror or pinch your spare tire to get an accurate picture. It should be about looking good and feeling good.

When you look good, you feel good. And when you feel good, you look mahvelous! - Fernando Lamas (Billy Crystal)