This is Not an April Fool's Joke, I Swear!Easy Weight Loss

BCS Fitness started a 28 day Good to Great challenge two weeks ago and I decided to join in, mostly because while I know I'm doing good with my exercise, I also know I could be doing a bit better with my eating.  A little extra focus couldn't hurt, right?  Part of the challenge is having a body scan done at the beginning and at the end, so I went ahead and did my beginning scan last Monday.  I wasn't really planning on looking at the print out because I don't care about specific numbers pertaining to weight or body fat, but coach Jared came over and wanted to look at it with me.  OK, fine.

I was happy to see that I've gained some muscle - yippee!  All of that weight lifting is working!  I was surprised to see that I'd lost some body fat, which was nice.

The biggest shock was that I've lost 16 pounds.  What the what?!  

I've not been working that hard at eating decently - the only conscious changes I've made recently were to not get a bakery treat along with my breakfast bagel or ciabatta roll on Saturdays at Blue Baker, to not eat milk chocolate (dark chocolate is fine because I don't tend to go off the rails with sugar like I do with milk), and to stop getting root beer when we'd go out to certain places to eat (I'd fallen into that little habit when we were doing the house remodel and were eating out a lot).  But other than that, I'd go on jags of eating vegetables and a lot of fruit, and then jags of eating hamburgers and fries.

My biggest takeaway from this is that had I been doing regular weigh ins, I would have been disappointed.  Basically it works out to a little over half a pound a week.  That's nothing, right?  But if you only check numbers every six months or so, it adds up to a nice amount.  Perspective.  It's a funny thing.

I'm really glad to see that I'm getting results but I already knew things were changing - as I wrote in February, my body is becoming more compact.  Recently I got to evaluate and toss some clothing that was too loose...I was still wearing those items, but Jeff pointed out that they were doing me no favors, and he was right.

I have no huge plans for weight loss, or to fit into any specific size; I'm working at becoming fitter and for me, apparently that comes with losing some weight.  Give me the strong muscles to go along with this so I can run well and I'll be very happy.

I'm going to do a body scan when the 28-day challenge ends and honestly, I'll be very surprised if there's any change in that short time-frame.  I probably won't do another one until I hit my one year anniversary of working out.  Being that I am coming up on 11 years from when I started this blog and my last diet, it's interesting to see how much my focus has changed.  I think I've become more realistic with what is a reasonable way to go through life - for me, dieting like I did in 2008/2009 is not something I ever want to do again.  But being active and eating mostly healthy foods?  I can do that.

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