goals past and future
Well, I’ve had to set some new goals, as I’ve achieved most of those I set a year ago (having to do with pants size, scale weight, and bodyfat).
Since sometime in April I’ve been holding steady. Having gotten to 130 pounds, it was a relief to just maintain for a while. I didn’t count calories or do the zig-zag most of that time, and when I went out to eat, I tried to make healthy selections but didn’t restrict myself unduly. Kind of nice just to maintain.
Workouts, same thing–holding to the pattern of weights and cardio three days a week, plus the 30-minute dog walk most mornings.
The great thing about all this is that maintaining this weight is pretty easy. As long as I’m working out, I can eat (within reason) whatever I want. Big caveat: that almost never includes junk food. Most of the time what I want is decent quantities of good stuff–grains, whole-wheat bread, milk, fruit, vegetables, cheese, chicken, etc.
Having gotten to this point, I want to take things a bit further. I’d like to increase my strength level in lifts that mean something to me (pullups, dips, bench press), and I also want to shed a little more bodyfat.
Estimating from my (wildly fluctuating) Tanita bodyfat-measuring scale and my Accumeasure calipers, I believe my bodyfat is 17 or 18 percent. I’d like to get to 14 or 15 percent.
