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Last week I mentioned that exercise has become a regular activity or, to clarify that thought, regular physical activities have become a part of my routine now. At least two nights a week I’ve been playing basketball and, aside from the aches and pains of getting my body moving again, it’s become a very enjoyable experience.

The first time I stepped on the court was the first time I had done so in a very long time. The picture above is one of the results of that night — Monday of last week if you want to be exact. I bought some brand new Converse shoes to play in and after roughly four hours of playing and running around I ended up with a beaut of a blister on my right foot but I also managed to get another blister, though not as bad, on my left foot in the same spot — which I would call a two-fer.

This week, however, I’ve gotten over the soreness mostly and the blisters have pretty much disappeared. So once again I hit the courts in my now slightly worn in Con’s for another four hours of high impact, knee-jarring exercise. Now that my body is getting used to all this work I must confess — or, if you will, am going to brag — that even though it’s only been a week I’m already seeing some improvements in both my game and fitness level. Woohoo!!

All right, all right, enough of the crap, time for this weeks stats:

• Weight: 172.4 lb.
• Belly inches: ?? — still no tape measure
• BMI (according to halls.md): 24.7 kg/m²

That’s a total of 2.6 lbs. lost and 0.3 kg/m² of fat gained (possibly because I’m 29 now) since last week.

Here are the grand totals for the entire diet so far:

• Weight loss: 12 lb.
• Inches lost: 2″ or more, I really need to measure this
• BMI drop (according to halls.md): 2.4 kg/m²

If you want to find out more about what we’re doing — it’s not just for people losing weight, gainers are welcome too — check out the diet page. There you can also find a nice OPML file to check up on all of us dieters (you can also visit our flickr group). Also be sure to check out our sponsor, The Diet Channel.