Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Week 4, Day 4: Reckoning, Exercise

Sunday morning I did the reckoning for my Saturday night binge and found I didn't do so awfully badly after all -- I used 4 points more than my daily total, or less than 5 of my 35 weekly bonus points. This is good.

But I am wondering about all my measures of food and points and exercise. I hacked off a slab of chicken breast that measured 2 oz on my little scale -- I would have thought it to be 3. And does four hours of ambling around town on my bike, stopping to photograph as I go, really count as low-intensity exercise at all?

And I have been exercising this Memorial Day weekend -- the aforementioned four hour bike ride/photoshoot on Sunday, a 6-8 mile bike ride yesterday plus a 1 mile walk. Oh, and Saturday we went to tour a historic house in Germantown, walked around the grounds, and then walked about a mile before hopping the bus to get home.

Yesterday I finally opened a package from Lane Bryant with two pairs of size 2XT leggings that I'd ordered a few months ago. I better hope they shrink. (Woot.) Up in 1X-2X land, it takes two dress sizes to equal a size drop, so I imagine it will still be a little while before I see 1X. But I'm not complaining. I'm 11 pounds away from my first big milestone -- a slightly more than 10% of body weight loss AND the "100 pounds to go" milestone. If I keep up my current rate of weight loss, I should see that milestone some time in the month of June. If the rate slows down, some time in July.

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