On Track and In Control

Current weight: 178.0 lbs

Lowest weight since last blog: 178.0 lbs

Weight lost since last blog: 8.2 lbs

Last blog date: July 14, 2009

10 Weeks 8.2 pounds is no way stellar but still pretty good considering I may be hitting the plateau everybody seems to be talking about. Injuries are becoming more common these days as the toll of relentless exertion is taking place. I have a lot of ground to cover in this post so I will use the bullet points to make it more readable:

• Loosing weight does not happen automatically anymore. Gone are the days where I was loosing 1 - 1.5 lbs a week just like that. But now the increments are small so I have to club two weeks of weight loss to see significant weight reduction.
• I had two - three bad weeks in this time period where healthy eating was next to impossible because it was affected by other aspects on personal life.
• The last weeks of this time period were different as I tried to shift my focus from weight loss to Body Fat Percentage. This requires that I eat more food, lift heavier weights and make sure I burn off any excess calories so that I am replacing the fat in my body with muscle. This will inevitably slow down my weight loss progress but I guess it will be a healthier way of doing it.
• This will probably be the last strectch in this year which was filled with outdoor activities. Today is the first day of the fall and that means I will have to move indoors pretty soon. Boxing Gym and Gold's Gym will be ideal to continue towards my aim.