Mortal Peril

So, I have been doing a paleo-esque style diet for 22 days now and have dropped a whopping 2 pounds.  The upside is that I have been having these intense dreams where I am in mortal peril. 

Seriously, my dreams have been intense.  I have been waking up exhausted because I have been fighting for my life all night.  I don't know if it actually has anything to do with the paleo diet but they did seem to develop shortly after starting this diet. 


Does anyone else have these issues?

One week, one pound

I am one week in to my diet.  It is has been a lot slower this time around. The first time I did this diet I had a lot more weight to loose, so that might be a factor.  I also am not coming off a binge at an all-inclusive resort in Mexico, like I was the first time.  I have dropped 1.2 pounds.  Not great but better than nothing.
I have not been 121 in a long time.  I have a deal with a friend.  If we are good on our diets we get to go buy slutty dresses the first month and skinny jeans the second.  It is funny but a silly prize like that has kept me motivated through some serious bagel cravings.

Umm... that was not at all helpful

New year means silly resolutions.  A few of them I am going to keep to myself, they mostly have to do with photography, so not relevant to this blog.  First resolution: start diet.

I have started 4 hour body again.  I feel puffy.  I thought I gained weight over the holiday.  It took me 3 days (today is Jan 3rd) to work up the courage to get on my scale.  This morning when I did I cringed then looked down... Oh. Really?  I weigh the same? 122.2  But I look puffy?  I guess that is good.  I have a lower starting point than I thought.

Then I took my measurements and entered them in an online body fat calculator.  This is what it said:

Using your measurements of a 27 inches waist and weight of 122 pounds your body fat percentage is estimated to be % using the U.S. Army body fat algorithm, or % using the U.S. Marine body fat algorithm, or 20.91 % using the U.S. Navy body fat algorithm, or 30.93 % using the formula developed by the YMCA. 

First of all F@*K you YMCA.  I will go with the Navy on this one.  The sentence does not even make sense.  Is it saying that the Army, Marines, and Navy all have the same algorithm that puts me at 20. 91 %?  Or did it just forget to fill in those numbers?  Then why is there a 10% difference between what the Navy thinks I am and what the YMCA thinks I am? 

It then goes on to tell me that if I have 10% body fat I might have an eating disorder.  I looked for a different website.  I ended up on Livestrong.  I like Lance Armstrong, so why not trust his fat calculator.  It gave me the same result as the Navy.  20.9.  That means I want to drop 5.9 percent body fat.  That means I need to loose 8.47 lbs of fat.

Hmm, 113 seems a little low.  Maybe I will just aim for 115 and see what happens.