Week 2 Body Composition

Well, not really huge progress this week. I lost .5mm on both my chest and my tricep area. This could be one of two things: a tiny increase in lean body mass, or it could be my water weight fluctuating.

Saturday: 2/7/09
Weight: 154.6
Body Fat: 24.71% (lost .06%)
LBM: 116.41 lbs (gained .12 lbs lbm)
Chest: 8.5 mm (lost .5mm)
Midaxilla (below armpit): 12 mm
Abdomen: 24.5 mm
Suprailiac (diag. fold abv. hip bone): 19.5 mm (gained .5mm)
Thigh: 30 mm
Subscapular (below shoulder blade): 14.5 mm
Tricep: 18.5 mm (lost .5mm)

I missed a couple days at the gym last week. One was because of a staff development meeting and the other was because I had to take my cats to the vet on Friday. To top it off, my husband and I went to dinner on Saturday and I had a couple drinks (alcohol)...which were definitely not on my diet. I definitely need to be a little more strict with things this week.

So my goals for this week are as follows:

1. Drink more water
2. Sneak in a Saturday AM workout session
3. Tighten up the reighns a bit more on Saturday (one healthy cheat meal; i.e. pita pizza with turkey pepperoni)
4. Have a more substantial decrease in body fat.

Week 1: Just Checking In...

So, I figured it was time to do my body composition again. It's been a while since I've done it and to be honest, I was avoiding it like the plague. I knew that I had put on some weight during the holiday season and I just couldn't drag myself to do the pinches. I knew that if I did, then I would see the numbers and it would be true...I had gained.
And now I'm officially over it and ready to start a new challenge. I'm using my little sisters wedding, which is coming up in about 7 weeks, to help keep me motivated and get back on track.
Here are my starting stats from Saturday:

Weight: 154.6
Body Fat: 24.78%
LBM: 116.29 lbs
Chest: 9 mm
Midaxilla (below armpit): 12 mm
Abdomen: 24.5 mm
Suprailiac (diag. fold abv. hip bone): 19 mm
Thigh: 30 mm
Subscapular (below shoulder blade): 14.5 mm
Tricep: 19 mm

This week I'll be doing chest/back with 25 mins HIIT (Mon.), 45 mins cardio (Tues.), hams/glutes/calves with 25 mins HIIT (Wed.), 45 mins cardio (Thurs.), biceps/triceps with 35 mins HIIT (Fri.), 45 mins cardio (Sat.), and REST (Sun.).

I'll be following meal plan #1. After my body comp next weekend, I'll have a better idea of whether or not anything with my meal plan needs to be changed.

Week 3: Body Composition

I'm posting my body comp a little late. We lost power when Ike hit and power was just finally restored; it was out for a week. Our place weathered the storm fine and everyone was safe. The morning of Ike, I had my husband help me with my body composition. I just wrote all my pinches and measurements on a scrap piece of paper. Here's my body comp from 9/12/08:

Weight: 144.8 (lost 6.6 pounds)
Body Fat: 21.43%
LBM: 113.77 lbs
Chest: 7 mm
Midaxilla (below armpit): 9.0 mm (lost 1.5mm)
Abdomen: 22 mm (same)
Suprailiac (diag. fold abv. hip bone): 16 mm (lost 2mm)
Thigh: 27 mm (gained .5mm)
Subscapular (below shoulder blade): 12.5 mm (lost 1mm)
Tricep: 13 mm (lost 3mm)

A lot of the weight that I lost was probably water weight. So I'm not sure if I actually lost muscle mass or if it was just water retention. So, I'll be continuing the same meal plan through this next week. If I still am losing muscle mass then I will either increase my calories or decrease the amount of cardio that I am doing.

I don't have any data for this week (week 4). The diet was pretty lousy with not having power. My husband and I were limited on what we could eat that was healthy until some of the grocery stores opened back up. I'm looking forwarding to starting up my meal plan again and cleaning the diet back up.

Week 2: Body Composition

My results for this week suck! I'm so completely frustrated right now. It's been very stressful at work, but I've been doing good on the nutrition. And to top everything off, it's my TOM.
I've burned over 3500 calories this week at the gym, and usually eat between 1300-1500 calories each day. However, my pinches are all higher than they were last week.
I'm praying that a lot of it is just water retention from it being my TOM. We'll see when I do my pinches next week.

Here are my crappy stats:

Weight: 150 (gained 1.4 pounds)
Body Fat: 22.52%
LBM: 117.30 lbs
Chest: 7 mm
Midaxilla (below armpit): 10.5 mm (gained .5mm)
Abdomen: 22 mm (gained .5mm)
Suprailiac (diag. fold abv. hip bone): 18 mm (gained 1.25mm)
Thigh: 26.5 mm (gained .5mm)
Subscapular (below shoulder blade): 13.5 mm (same)
Tricep: 16 mm (gained .5mm)

Does anyone have any words of wisdom for me? I'm overall pretty frustrated.

My goals for this week are not to miss ANY days at the gym, clean up the diet even more and log EVERYTHING, and I'll be following a more strict meal plan (see the meal plan on the right column of my blog).

Week 1: Body Composition

Weight: 150 (lost 1.9 pounds)
Body Fat: 21.94%
LBM: 117.09 lbs
Chest: 7 mm
Midaxilla (below armpit): 10 mm
Abdomen: 21.5 mm
Suprailiac (diag. fold abv. hip bone): 16.75 mm
Thigh: 26 mm
Subscapular (below shoulder blade): 13.5 mm
Tricep: 15 mm

Week one is down and I lost 1.9 pounds. Some of that may have been some water weight...it's hard to say, since I didn't do my pinches last week. There was definitely a gain since my last pinches that I did back in July (I was at 21.12% BF).
This week was pretty stressful. It was the first full week back at school with the kiddos, the school schedule has changed drastically, I have an extra class that I didn't have before, and it's been crazy handling all of the campus' technology issues. But I made it!!
The workouts felt good this week.
There were also some challenges with sweets. One day there was a birthday cake, another day some one brought doughnuts, and then there were brownies.
Tomorrow is my husband's b-day, so the challenge for tomorrow will be eating clean and trying to pass on the b-day cake (Eek! HELP!).

Week 1: Day 1

I won't be able to do my body composition and measurements until this weekend, however I did get my starting weight this morning. I'm starting in at 151.9.
So far so good. Today was Chest and Back and 30 mins of HIIT on the treadmill.

Starting Another 8 Week Program

Well, the summer is officially over! I spent last week getting my class room together and tomorrow the kids are coming back to school. It will be good to be back on a set schedule, because I am much more consistant with my nutrition and my work outs during the school year.
So on Monday I will be starting an eight week regime, basically increasing the intensity on my workouts and making sure I'm getting my 5 clean meals a day.
I'm off to make my blueberry protein pancakes for the week. More details to come!