t.m.i.—the fat girl fitness test

This post will be too much information—tmi—but that's life. I have to be held accountable if I'm ever going to shed this weight for good.

So if you are feeling miserable, maybe reading this will make you feel better.

Part of the presidential challenge is to take a fitness test before you start. So I've been walking four years, maybe, and doing the challenge for seven months. It's about time I bit the bullet.

The online calculator did not accept fractions, so I had to round.

I was pleased that my mile was 13:47. I think after the WYBO it was 14. My resting heart was 60 (nurse Bonnie insisted) and the after was 78.

My height, sadly, is down to 5'9.5".  and my weight, on my new scale, is 226. So this will be the scale of record now.

I did 23 half sit ups in one minute. My shoulders and neck still hurt and for two hours after I felt like I was going to vomit. I cannot do a proper sit up. You could dangle a million dollars in front of me and it still won't happen. I really need exercise for dummies.

I fared less well with the push ups—6. I could not do even one on the floor. Even from my knees. I did them kitchen counter, but my shoulders were still hurting from the sit ups. I think I could do more. More on that later.

The sit and reach flexibility was 24.5 inches.  The results say I'm in the 95%. Wow, Bonnie must be in the 150%.

Overall, she's much more athletic than I am. No surprised. That investment in the gym paid off.

For this we only needed or waist measurement. For Megan's Skinny Shimmy group we needed the everything. We saved that for last. Here are the disgusting numbers:

Boobs: Upper 42.5, mid 44.5, lower 40.25
Waist: High 40.25, mid 40.25, low, 49.5
Hip: 49
Thigh: 26
Calf: 16.5
Bicep: 13

So her post for today says:

Happy New Year everyone! First challenge for the New Year: One Hundred Push Ups! This is a 6 week challenge designed to build strength and at the end of the 6 weeks, you should be able to complete 100 consecutive push ups. Please go to www.hundredpushups.com to complete the initial test to find out which level you fall into if you are participating. We will begin the challenge on 1/6/12!

100 push ups. Is she kidding? Did she inherit the Jillian gene from her mother? And Lydia calls me the task-master. 

I read everything, despite the constant pop-up to get a phone app. It says you can start with the wall, and basically do what we did with WYBO. However, my goal is 50. Maybe on the stairs. Clearly not on the floor. That will take more than 6 weeks.

I'm level 1—0 to 5. We will see.