80 Sticks of Butter: FFC Day 10

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

FFC Day 10

I did push ups today.

OK, not like on the ground, real, awful push-ups like you see military guys and super in shape people do at the gym.

But I did do two sets of push-ups involving a stability ball. And they were hard! And I did a bunch!

OK, well, a "bunch" being like two sets of 8, which is about 15 more than I've ever done before in my entire life.

Basically, personal trainer E really kicked my butt today using that stability ball.

And what did we discover today as I did push-ups and other stability ball work?

Yeah...ummm...that I am SUPER UNCOORDINATED.

This is nothing that I didn't know about myself, but I E was kind of looking at me funny and I'm sure she was thinking something along the lines of, "You poor pitiful thing" as I tried desperately not to fall off the stability ball (and failed several times at the not-falling-off-the-stability-ball part of my personal training session.)

Still, I survived my second personal training session. That's a victory right there.

Only 8 more to go.

Dear God. Please help me.

2 comments:

Anonymous9/23/2010 3:15 AM
Jenifer I really enjoy reading about your journey - you're doing great!!!
Pam (from the team)
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Jennifer9/23/2010 5:25 AM
Thanks, Pam! based on Andy's notes to us this week, sounds like it's going well for just about everyone. Can't wait to hear about others' successes, too! See you on Friday for treadmill intervals (help!) with Andy...
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The Story of 80 Sticks of Butter

A number of years ago, a dear friend of mine just starting on her weight loss journey was seeing a nutritionist. During the first week, my friend reported the loss of her first 2 pounds, saying, "Well, it's just 2 pounds," to which the nutritionist responded, "You sound like this is no big deal! Think of it this way - 1 pound equals 4 sticks of butter...so you just lost the equivalent of 8 sticks of butter!" Quite a unique way of looking at shedding pounds.

As of August 16, 2010, I have lost the equivalent of 80 sticks of butter (I'll let you do the math...) However, I still have many more sticks yet to lose. This is a record of my journey.

Melting Away in 2010

8 January - BMI = 29.38
8 January - 156 sticks of butter
13 December - BMI = 29.38
13 December - 156 sticks of butter
15 November - BMI = 29.38
15 November - 156 sticks of butter
8 November - BMI = 29.88
8 November - 144 sticks of butter
25 October - BMI = 30.09
25 October - 136.8 sticks of butter
18 October - BMI = 30.09
18 October - 136.8 sticks of butter
11 October - BMI = 30.27
11 October - 132 sticks of butter
4 October - BMI = 30.45
4 October - 127.2 sticks of butter
25 Sept - BMI = 30.56
25 Sept - 124 sticks of butter
20 Sept - BMI = 30.86
20 Sept - 116 sticks of butter
10 Sept - BMI = 31.15
10 Sept - 108 sticks of butter
5 Sept - BMI = 31.3
5 Sept - 104 sticks of butter
31 Aug - BMI = 31.45
31 Aug - 100 sticks of butter
27 Aug - BMI = 31.6
27 Aug - 96 sticks of butter
20 Aug - BMI = 31.97
20 Aug - 86 sticks of butter
16 Aug - BMI = 32.19
16 Aug - 80 sticks of butter
1 Feb - starting BMI = 35.14