Waist size? New goal.

I just read a CNN article that says that waist size is a big predictor of diabetes. Basically, anything 35" and above for a woman spells trouble. I just measured mine, in the usual place--across the belly button--and came up with 38, but according to this article, you should be measuring the narrowest part, or if you don't have a "natural waistline," where your elbows are. I had kind of suspected I should be using the "narrowest" part, but for me that falls kind of high, and I thought it might be cheating. Not so, apparently. My "natural waist" is 36.

So, my new goal--in addition to getting into the 160s this month--is to get my waist under 35". I don't know how long that takes, so I'll say it's a summer goal.

Still keeping up

Wednesday night I said I'd run a mile nonstop, and I did. I was winded and I was only running at 4.6 miles an hour, but I set out to run a mile and I did. Hooray for accomplishing stuff.

Also, last month I set out to beat a woman named LouAnn at fitbit.com. I just checked, and by an average of a mere 46 steps a day, I'm beating her. Trouble is, when I set that goal, she was averaging 15k steps a day. She's currently in 11th place, just below me, with 10,953 steps a day. So, I'm beating her, but she's also not the fierce competition she was a month ago. Right now I'm in 10th place, so my goal for the week is to be in 7th.