Ok so I guess now is as good of time as any to do my Monday update and there's lots to talk about.

First, my weight. I was able to drop 10 pounds since I weighed myself on January 12th. It's not as much I was hoping for but I will take it. It sure would have been nice to see 229 though. I really started following a plan on about January 18th and have had many overages since then. Valentine's Day weekend was a disaster for eating. Friday night we had friends over and definitely drank our fill and snacked all night. Saturday we had a family birthday party for our daughter and again drank beer and ate burgers. Then Sunday had friends over and had beer and pizza which I just remembered I forgot to log the pizza. All in all I'd say 10 pounds is pretty good considering this weekend.

Next, I got the body composition test done. I am glad I did and I will post a picture of it below. What it told me is that my body fat % is 29.7. I'm still fat but thankfully not as fat as I thought. The guy said that my lean muscle mass is great and is around the levels he typically sees when he tests hockey players. My favourite part was when he told me that he can tell I don't skip leg day in the gym and I told him I can't remember the last time I worked out legs in the gym the other main thing I wanted was my basal metabolic rate which is the amount of calories my body burns in a day without exercise and it was 1984 calories. This reassures me that when I got over my MFP recommended I'm still in good shape. I mentioned how many calories I have been eating and he says to up it because I am burning off muscle with the fat. He recommended I lose 30 pounds of fat and increase my muscle mass by 10 pounds or so. 30 pounds is my next goal so that's right in line.

My pictures are so so. I feel a bit thinner around my stomach and back and hope to see big losses there in the future. I still haven't received T25 in the mail yet but hopefully I will tomorrow.

And finally the best news of all. I got my mom to download MFP today. She's 60 and has 20 or so extra pounds to lose. She's coming over tomorrow to walk on the treadmill while I ride my bike. It's awesome because I haven't seen my mom exercise ever!

I took measurements too
Neck - 17.5"
Chest - 46"
Left bicep - 15"
Right bicep - 15.5"
Stomach - 41"
Waist - 39"
Left thigh - 26"
Right thigh - 26.5"
Left and right calve - 17"

And that's it for this update!

Yeah I was pumped when she showed up today and I got her set up on the treadmill. She had never been on one in her life. She started off saying that 2.2 on 0 grade was fast and by the end of the 30 minutes she was going 3.2 on 0.5 grade. Hopefully she wants to consider.

As for the LBM I do have quite a bit of muscle and always have been strong but it's the 70 pounds of fat that's on top of it that I have to lose.

I'm going to hold off on buying the tv until I know I can stick with the program. Until them I will use a 27" monitor hooked up to my laptop.

No she's not. I'm 32 and I can't remember a single time where she did anything active. I think when I was a baby both mom and dad played softball but that's 25 plus years ago. I'm super proud of her, I hope we can continue it.

I haven't updated on here for a while so noes a good time because I am procrastinating working out. I weighed in yesterday and took some measurements last night but never got a chance for photos. 1.8 pounds lost or something, I weighed in at 230.8 I believe. Now losing any weight is a good thing....

I read what I just typed and realized how stupid I was being. I am now writing this while on my stationary bike.

Ok, so while losing any weight is a good thing, I am mad at myself for gaining so much over the weekend. On Thursday morning I weighed 228.0 so I put on 3 pounds due too eating like a hog and drinking beer. I don't make excuses for it and I know why it happened but I'm still pissed off with myself. My measurements are very similar .5 here 1 there, but that could be an error in self measuring. I'll post them up next Monday in a little chart.

Hmmm what else....

I started doing C25K yesterday which I'm happy about. I looked ahead and the first few lessons are real easy for me so I change it up a bit. I will only being doing the C25K workout after a good bike workout. The purpose of this is to start training my body for a triathlon, the bike to run transition is killer on me so I will train it. I am only running on a treadmill for it and the treadmill will stay at a 2 degree incline until I can increase it. Right now with the intervals being easy I am increasing my run speed each time and my walk is 3.5mph. I used to be able to run on the treadmill decently and hopefully will again.

My T25 program still has not arrived. Apparently it's delayed two weeks because of the snowstorms down in the states. Sounds like *kitten* to me but there's nothing I can do about it. I was so excited to start it when I got home, it's a real buzz kill to wait and I am losing enthusiasm.

Some other random thoughts, my wife decided to go for a run outside the other day and busted out 5km no big deal after not running for a long time. I was jealous and it's the reason I started the running app. I'm proud of her too. She also came down two nights ago and did a 3 mile treadmill run while I biked. It was nice to have her down here to workout. I'm pretty much exactly 100 pounds heavier than her so I gotta work on that.

My grandmas been in the hospital for a while and my mom has been out of town helping her out. Gma's home and so is mom, I called her tonight to ask her to come for a walk tomorrow and got a solid maybe. She stopped tracking her calories already so I hope to encourage her to start up again.

Well I'm starting to sweat onto my iPad, only have 62 minutes left!

That's all for now