Weekly Weigh In April 17th 2009

I’ve managed to lose a further 2.2 pounds which you would think I would be happy about. But I’m not, my body fat percentage has gone from 22.1% to 23.3% which means I’ve lost weight but I’m now fatter. To be honest I just can’t see how I have done that. The only two things that I can think of is my body fat scales are reading slightly wrong, or I’ve just done too much cardio this week.

I needed to do lots of cardio this week otherwise I wouldn’t off reached the 50,000 calories in 50 days challenge. Speaking about this challenge it’s my last day of the challenge today and I’ve got under 1000 calories to burn then I’ve passed my first body fat reduction challenge. I’m so glad that I stuck at the challenge because there were times when I was seriously thinking about quitting because it was so time consuming and hard.

I’m going to Spain on Sunday for a 3 nights all inclusive break for my friends stag weekend. So I’m expecting to over indulge quite a bit on food and booze. So I’m expecting not seeing good results at next Fridays weekly weigh in. Not happy about my body fat percentage going up though. I need to knuckle down and find out how exactly I can lower it. Losing weight for me is easy, losing fat though is a lot harder than I imagined it to be before I started my body fat loss journey.

I am slightly disappointed with this weeks results because I’ve put in quite a bit of work on my cardio sessions. Which made me think that I would be seeing good results this week. Don’t get me wrong losing 2.2 pounds this week is a fantastic result for most people. But it’s not for me at this moment in time. I need to lose this skinny fat look that I’ve got at the moment and the only way I can do that is my maintaining my weight and lowering my body fat percentage.

I’ve just got to keeping moving forward, but the clocks ticking and I have promised myself that I will hit my target of 10% body fat come the end of 2009. I know I’ve still got plenty of time left to reach my goal. But I’ve still got around 25 pounds of fat to lose and 25 pounds of muscle to gain if I’m to reach this target. This is turning out to be a more difficult task than I first imagined. I’m focused and motivated though, which will ensure that I give it my best shot.