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This is my first blog post in over 6 months, during this time I have been spending my time doing other stuff. I’ve still been lifting weights and exercising. But my diet plan hasn’t been 100% clean.
The reason I started this blog was to document my progress and finally get my body fat percentage down to about 10%. This blog is over 18 months old now and I haven’t achieved my goal. This just isn’t good enough, but I’m not the only one. Having just checked out a few of the most popular weight loss blogs on the Internet, I’m still amazed to find that some are still blogging every day, but still not achieving there weight loss goals.
I have decided to start blogging again, because I have found this blog to be a tremendous motivation tool for me to start losing fat again. Like I mentioned earlier, during 2010 I’ve been mainly lifting weights and this has allowed my muscle mass to increase. I’m walking around at around 225 pounds at the moment, with a body fat percentage of around 22%+. This is only an estimate though.
To be perfectly honest with you I’m too scared to step onto my body fat scales, because I know I won’t like what is staring back at me. Yesterday I started eating healthy again, and have started to cut back on the calories. My main aim is to cut some weight and hopefully the weight that I lose will all be fat.
I’ve had several emails from people asking me when am I going to start my Friday weekly weigh in’s again. Well I plan on starting these again in the next few weeks. Because these weigh in’s were a fantastic motivation for me, because I was embarrassed to show pictures of the scales each week that shown poor results. This is because I let all my family and friends know that I had started this fat loss blog. And each week if I was seeing poor results at the weekly weigh in’s I would get it in the neck off friends and family members that I was slacking.
Like everyone else, I hate failing. So by starting blogging again hopefully this will help me to get back on track with my fat loss journey.
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Good for you! And don’t feel bad; I’m starting my weight loss blog up again after three freakin’ years. I hope I can do it this time. I’m in a much better situation than three years ago financially and in other ways, so I’m hopeful. Anyway, good luck, and I’ll be checking back in!
Thanks Greg, I’ve had three days of eating healthy and Ive feeling better already!
Eating healthy & exercising diligently can be a demanding lifestyle, but stick to it & you can do it. After about 10 years of ‘letting myself go’ (from age 35-45), I finally did a total reversal of lifestyle 9 months ago, when I got tired of looking like a pudgy middle-age guy (6ft 2, 225 lbs). I started by eating all healthy foods (about 1600-1800 calories per day) & moderate/high rep exercising each muscle group 2 times per week using a variety of basic home exercises & 5-15 pound dumbbells & ankle-weights (& some 6 mile hikes once or twice per week). Now, 9 months later, I’m a lean 175 pounds & 10-11% body-fat, & people say that I look like I’m in my early 30′s now (^_^). My metabolism is back to how it was in my teens/early-twenties now it seems & it’s tough eating enough of all-healthy foods to get the 3000 or so calories I need minimum daily. Just make sure you are eating plenty of quality protein (I supplement with all-natural, quality whey protein(+chia) w/1% milk), cut out all processed sugars/foods humanly possible, & restrict most of your carb intake to vegetables/fruits only, with the occasional brown rice, potatoes, wheat pasta, etc type carb thrown-in (once a day for these type carbs usually). Doing that, the fat melted right off me & I maintained my lean muscle mass during the weight loss span. I also make sure to eat a protein+nutrient-dense meal/snack before bed to give my body something to work with, other than burn muscle at night to supply the calories it needs for basic functions during that entire 8 hour span. Best of luck!
Also, eat a good portion of nuts like almonds, walnuts & sunflower seeds daily, as your body actually needs plenty of the good fats & omega-3 fats to lose fat weight & be healthy. It’s the excessive carbs/sugars that cause the blood sugar spikes & sends your body into fat storage mode. Your body will use any excess fats you eat (even saturated) as energy if you are only eating enough calories to match your body needs & watching your carb intake to keep it at healthy levels. You probably know all this already, but that’s what worked for me…though I’m a natural ectomorph’ish body type, & that probably made it easier for me to ‘lean-up’ pretty fast, even after 10 years of neglect.
Hey Keith,
Good stuff, glad to see you’re starting again. I actually stumbled across a comment you made on my site ages ago and followed the link
I’m back blogging after a long time and i’ll be following your progress. I know you might not like what you see on the scale, but do it. Get a baseline going and when you start dropping, the difference that you see will be massive motivation!
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wow 10-11% body fat! now thats the sort of target im looking at. do you have a blog of your own? Also you said you dropped down to 1800 calories, how much of a calorie deficit were you doing a day? Great job mate!
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Stick at it, keep going and reap the rewards.
You havn’t posted for a while are you still going?