Body Composition

I started January 1, 2024, at a healthy weight for my height of 5’6”.  My goal for most of this whole year has simply been to hold onto that level of health that I had achieved, and certainly to even improve it, if I could.

Backsliding with eating ultra processed foods, regaining weight, sloth on the couch = not an option.

Was I perfect all year?  No.  There was quite a bit of sloth on the couch in July.  But then I made new goals for kilometers (just over 1,000 total for the year) to log on my RunKeeper phone app, and my 100 Walks 100 Rocks goal as well.  

So, here I am on Friday, December 13, 2024, with some non-scale victories.  My hip measurements (which have consistently been a larger ratio due to having a “pear” shape) are finally in a place that makes me feel good about myself.  Of course, everyone has their own metric for what makes them feel good about their shape, mine is mine, yours is yours.  I wanted to feel in proportion to my small waist, which I now do.  And my body fat percentage is down from 25.1% to 18.2% since the beginning of the year, (figuring in that an average household scale can only be so accurate—or inaccurate—in this regard), so I know that walking 1,000 kms this year has (probably) meant I have changed my body composition for the better.

For 2025, more of the same.  Maintain the health I was able to reclaim after my accident.  Kilometers walked?  Probably 1,000 for the year again.  I am trying to find a very specific motivator also.  Something less vague than 1,000 total, but not too strict, (like 5K a day every day is too strict for me, personally).  Rock collecting, for sure.  I have great ideas for my garden like this:

I look forward to 2025!