Ever since we started PT in Basic Law Enforcement Training, the scale has not been kind to me. Half my brain is freaking out as the scale number goes up daily, and the other half (the sensible half) is saying "Chill out, your clothes aren't tight, you're just putting on muscle is all. In a couple weeks you'll start dropping pounds like crazy, most likely"

I'm getting off the scale for a few weeks, and pulling out my old measuring tape instead. Today:

neck: 13
upper left arm: 12
upper right arm: 11.75
bust: 37.5
chest: 34.5
waist: 32.5
hips: 42
left thigh: 24.5
rt thigh: 23.5

Hey Nikki,

That's a better plan. Who care's how much you weight if you are getting smaller and looking better and more fit. Good luck with your training!

You look awesome, Nikki, and I'm sure you feel it, too! GO GET 'EM GIRL!

Checking in...

Neck: 13
Upper left arm: 12
Upper right arm: 11.75
Bust: 37.5
Chest: 35
waist: 33.5
hips: 41
left thigh: 23
right thigh: 24


More or less the same as last time.

KEEP IT UP!!!

Copying my post from Mad Forum Addicts 3 and then some to here for posterity:

Yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either. But I've got several different people in class, both instructors and fellow students, and some of which are certified personal trainers, who are POSITIVE that my diet is the problem. 'Course I'm not convinced one bit that they are right, and I've tried arguing "I can't eat bagels and potatoes and pasta and cereal and bread" and I've tried compromising "Well, what if I add beans and sweet potatoes into my diet on PT days?". None of that is apparently good enough. That one instructor in particular is insisting on things like white potatoes and cereal and energy bars. Ugh.

I feel like I have to at least sort of give their advice a try though. If I refuse, they will either be even harder on me or they will write me off as unwilling to cooperate and won't try to help me anymore with the exercise stuff...and I DO appreciate their help and advice regarding that! It's not unthinkable or impossible that being labeled uncooperative or difficult or whatever might even get me kicked out of class, especially if it can be done by way of "concern that I'm endangering my health" or something. That's probably a worst-case scenario, but certainly not impossible.

My baseline weight for this experiment is 163.8 this morning, so at 173.8 I'm calling it quits, if I get there. This morning for breakfast I had a serving of Irish oatmeal with butter, purposely undercooked it to hopefully make it harder to digest (hahahaha), and later about 3 eggs with green peppers, onions, bacon, and cheese. Before class I'm going to have ONE peanut butter sandwich made on that flourless low-glycemic sprouted-grain bread (unfortunately I found it). I've got chicken thighs baking in the oven right now, will probably have one when I get out of class tonight.

I felt awful all morning, not sure whether it was from the oatmeal itself or just because I feel so awful and scared about grossly deviating from my way of eating. I noticed after I ate that serving of oatmeal I definitely wanted another (greaaaaaaat), but I held myself off...the stuff's like 27 grams of carbs per serving and only like 4 of it is fiber. The eggs later on helped some. Hurray for protein and fat.

Fitday is quoting me 1887 calories, 126 fat grams, 76 carbs (14 fiber), and 115 grams protein for what I plan on eating today. I think it's quoting my carbs low, as it wants to tell me the oatmeal I ate today was only 13 carbs, and the package told me more like 27.

Yesterday I was up to 167.2 from 163.8. This morning I'm at 169.6, and I didn't even succumb and eat anything carby yesterday (because I didn't have PT).

We are not amused.

On the upside, this experiment promises to be short-lived. 173.8 (10 lbs up from baseline, my "Screw This" limit) ain't far away.