Weight: 219.2 (-12.0)
Fat: 33.9% (-5.4%)
Meals: Fast 1 start midnight, end midnight
Exercise: Cardio (Treadmill 29:00 WL5 - 376 calories, 2.11 miles)
Pictures: Front/Side/Back/Flex
Week 5
Avg Weight: 218.4 (-3.1 | -10.9 | -2.7/wk)
Avg Fat: 33.7% (-0.0% | -2.8% | -0.7/wk)
Measurements
- Waist: 45.0 (0.0 | -1.6)
- Hips: 41.1 (-0.5 | -2.0)
- Forearm: 12.1 (0.1 | 0.5)
- Calf: 16.8 (0.3 | -0.4)
- Thigh: 26.0 (0.5 | 1.9)
- Wrist: 6.9 (0.3 | 0.1)
- Chest: 45.5 (-1.0 | 0.0)
- Bicep: 14.0 (-0.3 | -1.0)
So ends another week of weight loss. I ended the week slightly up, which means that there's more room to go down next week! The longer I do this, the more I feel like I've developed a routine. Treadmill running has become just something I do, like brushing my teeth, although my weight lifting sessions are still new. I started them 2 weeks later than the running, and I only do the workout 3 days a week, so that hasn't sunk in quite the same. And eating... well, fasting means I think even less about food than I did before I started losing weight. Because of yesterday's plans I postponed my fast, but I decided when I woke up to just do it all today, midnight to midnight. And that's all I had to do.
As for my progress, another three pounds gone in 7 days, which bumped up my weekly average to 2.7 pounds. Starting with my average weight of 218.4 this week, assuming I want to get down to 170 and that I continue the same rate of loss, it will take me 18 more weeks to reach that goal, which would be approximately June 22nd and well before my next birthday. I strongly suspect that my weekly average will go up slightly more due to the bigger numbers I'm getting as a result of my eating plan, before settling down as I approach my goal weight. The closer I get, the smaller the calorie deficit I'll have, the less weight I'll lose. Still, for someone planning to lose weight over an entire year or more, this is pretty exciting news.
My fat percentage didn't change at all, once you average all the week's numbers out. While the scale provides a good ballpark number, I don't believe it's a good method of tracking fat percentages. I'm tempted to see if I couldn't get more accurate results with a caliper. Of course I might have to throw out my existing measurements, or keep track of caliper results separately. As it is, the growing disparity of these numbers is very frustrating.
Measurement-wise, I'm still not sure what to make of the numbers. My waist remained the same, but I dropped another half an inch in my hips. With a total drop of two full inches in my hips, it's odd to realize that my extra half inch these week has caused a gain of two inches. That's right, I dropped two inches from my hips, and gained two inches in my thigh. Just one thigh. Hello quadriceps, it's nice to meet you.
I was happy to see a gain of an inch on my chest last week, but I managed to reverse that this week. My biceps continue to deflate, down a full inch now. I'd be more worried but I've obviously lost some fat in my arms and when I flex my arm now I feel a lot less give around my biceps. And even if I do lose a little bicep... the focus for now is on weight loss. When I reach my still unset goals, I can look into increasing my calorie intake and putting on some muscle.
No overall big changes planned. Running is going to increase in time every other day until I hit my second day of 33 minutes, at which point I'll jump to the next speed and adjust the time back down. Tomorrow's weight lifting is going to see a small change as I start to do two workout sets per exercise instead of just one. I still haven't elaborated on my starting dumbbell program which I need to do soon... I'll cover the changes then. Fasting is just working for now and so no changes needed there, although tomorrow I'll share a decision I've made with regards to my eating habits.
