[Evermont]

Overall attendance continues as before. Yesterday DS pointed out my "perfect attendance". I told him how it wouldn't make sense to pay for the class and not show up. Though the last few days I've been arriving just in time for the start. I counted 7 other people on the roster with full attendance.

DS says that bootcamp style classes are catching on I guess in the US, they're now featured on fitness mag covers and such. There was some study or something (real specific huh) saying that this type of class is more effective than most alternatives. The one other thing that is on par with bootcamp is food journaling (which leads to better food decision making).

I did the journaling when I started out with D, but once I got things under control I let up. Looks like I might want to go back to it. Effectiveness rules!

Today was the half way point. 2 weeks done, 2 weeks to go. My knee has a little hitch in it since Tuesday so I'm taking it easy on things that would aggravate it. Still it's a killer 1 hour workout. Sweat was just running off of me today. I felt good doing it, and I feel good after.

DW and DD both agree that I'm looking just a little thinner. The scale says I'm down just one pound since the start of bootcamp, but I know there's more muscles popping out here and there. I can feel some good things happening already. As slight as it is, it's nice.

DD had me do the BF% on a fancy portable machine they have at the gym. 26.2%. I can only wonder what it would have said two weeks ago - and 9 months ago when I started getting healthier. For comparison, my fancy bathroom scale wit BF% capability registered 32.4 today. So I guess the real answer is somewhere in the range between the two. She says that I'm about average (in todays fat USA) for men. Says 10% is a fairly aggressive goal 15% is fine. I think a good goal for me might be 12.5% average of the two devices by years end. I wonder how that compares to my weight goal of 185 by years end. It depends on a number of things including how well I build muscle.

I think I want to study up on creatine. Because I'm vegetarian and the creatinine trend on my last few blood tests... I might want to look into supplementation. Normally I don't supplement anything and generally prefer it that way but this may be an issue worthy of consideration.