Summer Weight Loss

I’m from the UK and the weather over the last week has been fantastic, I find losing weight seems to be a lot easier during the hot summer months. Having just returned from Spain were the weather was hot. I still managed to lose weight even when the odds were stacked against me (lots of beer and junk food). My aim at the moment isn’t really to lose weight it to reduce my body fat percentage and try to maintain as much body weight as I can.

Losing fat and gaining muscle isn’t easy. I’ve had a few weeks were I have been able to achieve it. But this was due to me eating lots of protein and doing lots of cardio and weight training sessions. Over the last couple of months I have been exercising like a mad man. My exercise has slowed down slightly, and I’m feeling a bit down because I know that if I reduce my exercise I will see a reduction in my progress. The bottom line is though I just couldn’t keep all that exercise up, there just wasn’t enough hours in the day.

Its all about me now finding a happy place, were I can eat delicious food and not spend to much time exercising. One hour per day exercising is the maximum I ever want to be doing, and doing diets that are like eating rabbit food is not for me. I pretty happy with my diet plan so far, I’ve been able to eat a lot of junk and still see weight loss results. I’ve lost 38 pounds so far this year. Could this of been better, your damn right it could be. If I was 100% strict with my diet plan this would be much much more. Which to be perfectly honest I so glad I didn’t do. My motivation would of been really low because I would of not been able to eat the food that I like to eat sometimes.

The summer is here so hopefully, the warm weather will keep me motivated to keep losing fat and moving forward with my body fat reduction journey. I keep seeing results though, so I should be a happy man. I know that I can do better and I will do better. In fact I know that I need to do better if I’m to reach my body fat percentage target of 10% at 200 pounds before the end of 2009.