Amazing Math

So tonight I go back for my second health evaluation at the health club so I can provide my official improvement numbers for the last Challenge check in.  Before my first evaluation, which was in November, "The Mean Girl voice said I was going to miserably fail."  It was a huge step for me to even go to that evaluation and face the facts.  I know there have been physical improvements that I can measure, but the ones I care about the most are my cardiovascular assessment and flexibility which I will find out tonight.  I have been faithfully doing stretches to try to transform from a stiff 3CPO to Mrs. Incredible. The fear of failing is gone, but I still have butterflies!  (My hubby's declarations of how great I look and my son's pronouncement that I am "lookin' hot" are obviously a bit biased!) The truth is that even with 30 pounds gone, only those that really know me are noticing a difference.  It will be great to get the perspective that numbers provide.  This whole journey really is about so much more than weight loss...tonight I get the facts about health. 

I do still have a bit of pre-game jitters surrounding the sit-up test.  I did 20 in the one minute before, but my belly was bigger so I didn't have to sit up quite as far.  (In honor of the great Paul P's retirement from AT&T, I will now attempt to replicate his amazing ability to turn learning service raw data into usable facts.)  I am 6 inches smaller around the middle than I was then so that means I will have 6 more inches of movement to make for each sit up.  Based on that fact, I am going to have to travel 120 inches more within that same one minute to break even.  120 inches of movement equals 10 feet.  Ten feet are two more than I have.  That leaves me with a negative 8 foot disadvantage over my last evaluation.  I weigh 20 pounds less than I did since the day of that evaluation.  Those 20 pounds should result in less wind resistance and strain for the stomach muscles to lift.  A 2 liter bottle of soda weighs about 4.5 pounds after you subtract the weight of the bottle.  Twenty pounds of fat melted down would be about 4.5 liters.   Liter is almost spelled the same as litter.  The average puppy litter is six puppies.  That would equal 24 feet.  24 feet minus eight feet equals a net improvement of 18 feet which is 192 inches.  I am 70 inches tall.  192 divided by 70 equals a +2.75 sit ups.  If I achieve 3 more sit ups tonight, I will be very happy. 

In summary - My friend Paul, will be greatly missed, and I am definitely not qualified to replace him!