Kari’s Blog

I had my health coach appointment today to follow-up from my check-in from December.  Unfortunately, and this totally sucks, it is my ‘cycle’ week and so I knew from the scale at home that I was retaining water.  In fact, the scale at home said that I weighed exactly what I had one month ago….and I knew that I had really “lost” some but that the water was making it look like I hadn’t.  But I was feeling bad that I was going to go do my check-in with my coach, and he’d see the same number and get down on me.

However, at the check-in appointment, he also measured body fat %.  When he did that and ran his little calculations, he announced that I had lost 3.5lbs in body fat!!  So I went from 30.1 to 28.7%, which is like, totally rad if you ask me.

I just thought it was really cool that the body fat % was an objective, measurable way to show what I suspected - the extra weight that the scale was showing was really due to water only - and I HAD accomplished my goal of losing around a pound a week, and I lost it all in lame-o fat!  Woohoo!

The coach guy was really encouraging, and just his little “Great job!” really gave me a boost.  I started out today feeling a little down about the number on the scale, but I left our meeting feeling energized and great about my progress!  I am so thankful that my company offers these health-coaching sessions.  It’s like my own personal 1-on-1 weight watchers, with periodic check-ins, feedback, etc…and it’s free!  I will definitely be taking advantage of this while I work towards my goal.  My next appointment is February 12th….I hope to be down 5lbs by then, to show him that I’m really kicking it in to gear!