Are you having a good day?

Two days ago I went into the local Y branch for my Biggest Loser weigh-in. The lady doing the weigh-in asked, just to make conversation, "Is this going to be a good day or a bad day?" (meaning, was I going to weigh low or high). I responded, "A good day - I don't let my body weight determine what kind of day I have!"

I'm basically maintaining right now. I'd like to have a deficit, but in order to do that I need to kick up the exercise level a bit. That will be easier once it warms up a bit and the high winds calm down and I am willing to do more cycling in the warmer weather.

First run of the year

Around the neighborhood for 5.2 miles at an 11:30 min/mile pace. That'll do for now! Not very substantial compared to my crazy training buddy Dave who rode 120 freakin' miles yesterday, but anyway, I'm sane and he's not. ;-)

And what do you know, I'm down 0.8 pounds and 0.4% body fat for the year to date! Gosh, if I could keep that up all year, I'd have zero percent body fat and weigh less than nothing!! Er, maybe that means I'd be dead. . . . let's not tempt the Fates. Let's call it daily variation in the correct direction. Yeah, I don't want to be obsessive about it - I just wanted a starting point on the first of the year, and then doing my usual weekly weigh-in today, which I do on a Wednesday to avoid the fluctuations from weekend workouts and indulgences.

It's going to be a great year.