Last Saturday, I finally got the courage up to step on the Wii to determine my official weight as I begin my journey. I weighed in at 158lbs. This is the weight I have been at many times but in the past 5 years I haven't been able to fall below this number. I am motivated to get to 150lbs but the Wii says I should be at 145lbs. 145lbs seems like a nice number but that is 13lbs from where I am now- not sure I can do it.
I learned a good lesson this week. I was at a wellness fair with a coworker this past week. At the fair was a personal training company who was determining your body fat. My co-worker, who has lost 30lbs over the past year, and I were both excited to have the test done on us. She came in at 34.6% and me at 32% body fat. WHAT????? The last time I weighed this weight, I was at 24%, how I can have gained 10% body fat, especially when I have been lifting 3x a week and have begun to notice significant muscle? I am definitely not at 24% now but 34% seems rather high. Of course, they were selling their services of nutrition and workout training. I made up my mind that this woman was just trying to sell her product and the only way she felt she could get people motivated was to possibly increase individuals fat %. I might be wrong but I couldn't let her bring me down.
Unfortunately, my co-worker didn't reach the same thought process that afternoon. She came in the next day and explained to me how depressed she became after learning of her body fat %. She didn't even want to work out that evening. We had a long talk about how one little thing can take you from being motivated to completely deflated. It is horrible how people can easily manipulate our minds. This was a huge lesson for me, one that I probably should have learned earlier: Don't let other determine how you feel.
Big lesson this week. Still motivated....
