Weekly Weigh-in (Week 60)

Sunday yet again and time for the weekly weigh-in.

My diet shift has been going well, and I'm feeling better. I'm looking better, feeling fitter, and this weeks run included the best pace I've managed to achieve since I started tracking runs back in October.

Not much to talk about this week, but let's see what ends up on the  page shall we? Firstly, in health as much as in any area of life, small changes are often the most useful ones. Small changes build up and snowball into much bigger changes, and the momentum can take you to amazing places. It's important to put things into perspective when trying to make life changes, small changes are a lot easier to make and stick to. Making small changes, either together or in series, is much easier than making a big change. Each little change will put you closer to where you want to be, and help you to get the momentum to make more changes, and eventually you will get to places you never thought you could reach.

Second thing I want to talk about today is the importance of data. Changes may help you make improvements, but you'll have a hard time pinning down the degree of your improvement and figuring out what is the most effective change you've made if you don't collect and analyze relevant data. For me right now I've been trying to manage my weight, and my body fat. To collect data for that I needed a digital scale, and a caliper. If I was trying to track my blood glucose I'd need a glucometer, for heart statistics I'd need a heart rate monitor. I'm bringing this up for multiple reasons, firstly I'm likely going to expand the data that I'm collecting about myself to see what I can find, secondly it's important to remember that if you want to find what works best you need the data and the initiative to figure out what best means and how to accomplish it.

So, do the numbers say this week? 201 up a pound from last week, but I'm not worried, my body fat is moving in a direction I like and so everything is looking pretty good. So until next week, be the person you want to be, and consider tracking some data to prove it.