Man Flu and trying to get back on track

I arrived back from Florida on Saturday and ever since I got back I’ve been full of a cold and feeling tired all the time. Its probably a combination of being jet lagged and having man flu. At the moment my nose is constantly running and I’ve got a very mild headache. This is really eating into my fat loss progress because I’ve been eating comfort food and not working out as hard as I usually do.

Since I’ve been back I’ve completed two half hearted sessions in my home gym, plus my protein intake as been quite low.  This drop in protein as really eaten into my overall strength and I finding myself a lot weaker in the gym than I usually do.  Another reason why I’m feeling weak is down to my body weight, on Monday morning I weighed myself and I was weighing in at 188 pounds. This means that I managed to lose around 4 pounds in body weight whilst in Florida. Which I find very hard to believe when you look at what I ate during the last week in Florida.

It must of been down to all the walking I did around the theme parks, wish I would of got myself a pedometer to see exactly how many miles I walked whilst in Orlando. I’m glad I managed to come back not gaining weight though, because that would of been disastrous to my fat loss journey at this late stage in the year. Its now time to knuckle down again and start losing even more fat over the next few weeks.

I’m looking at being around 15% body fat come the end of 2009, this year as been a learning curve for me and over the past year. I’ve learnt so much about my body and what I need to do to start losing fat. I have always told you that losing weight is easy, but losing fat is much harder. You need to be eating the right foods at the right time. Starting this weight loss blog as been the best thing I’ve done because it has kept me motivated to keep moving forward. I’ve made lots of mistakes so far this year, but I’ve kept with my program. I’ve even improved it and found new things that will allow me lose fat and lower my body fat percentage. Its now time to stick at it and start shifting fat