Well, the yoga has been going very well: I’ve managed to do about forty minutes of yoga almost every morning before going to work. I’m really enjoying it, and I’m always glad I’ve done it. It wakes me up, energizes me, loosens me up for the day.
But I’m feeling that it isn’t enough for me right now. Maybe it’s because I happened to eat very badly this past weekend 
(cheeseburger and onion rings for dinner Saturday night, Eggs Benedict for breakfast Sunday morning (did you know what’s in Hollandaise sauce??)). To be honest, I haven’t been eating particularly well for a while now. I’m usually pretty good, but I tend to snack too much, and I sometimes give in to cravings for very-bad-for-me-things. My pants have been feeling a bit snug lately.
So, I weighed myself this morning, for the first time in quite a while. I don’t really care exactly what my weight is, but I do care how much of it is fat. 
I have a Tanita scale which measures body fat using bioelectrical impedance analysis. The scale passes a small current through your body and combines the resistance with your weight, age and height to figure out your percentage body fat (electricity passes through different tissues differently). It’s certainly not the most accurate measurement, but if you take it at a consistent time (say, first thing in the morning), it can be useful for tracking changes over time.
This morning’s measurement certainly indicated a change: My weight has gone up a couple of pounds in the last month or so, and while that’s not the end of the world, the difference has been all fat. This tells me it’s time I start behaving myself, paying attention to what I’m eating, and getting back to the weight-training. That last one might be a challenge, since I no longer have a gym membership. But weight-training is really all about lifting heavy things, right? And I live in a house that’s under construction – I’m surrounded by heavy things! Surely I can hoist some of them around a bit, right? Right?
So, what changes have you noticed lately?