Weekly Weigh In June 12th 2009

Another week which has flown by in 2009 with each week passing so quickly I am really beginning to get worried about reaching my target of 10% body fat come the end of 2009. This was another weekly weigh in which I wasn’t looking forward to but like I said yesterday it’s just something that all good weight loss blogs should do. We are showing our readers how we are performing, in my case under performing. Whilst I haven’t been that bad food wise and I have been been training hard during my workouts. I have a sneaky feeling that my body fat percentage has probably gone up again. Why, because I’ve not been drinking my protein shakes and not eating a good source of protein at every meal.

Having just stepped onto my body fat scales I was right, my body fat percentage has gone up from 23.1% to 23.8%, but I’ve managed to lose 0.4 pounds. Now do you see the importance of not judging your progress on the weight that you lose each week. Losing weight is easy, losing fat is ten times harder which I am finding out for myself. I was so uneducated before I started this weight loss blog and always judged my progress on weight lost. How wrong was I, your body fat percentage measurement is what matters most when you step onto the scales for your weekly weigh in’s.

I’ve learned a valuable lesson this week, I can not drop my daily protein intake otherwise I will lose lean muscle mass and my body fat percentage will rise. Which is something I do not want to be doing, looking at my body fat chart, you can see that my resting metabolism is dropping due to my body fat percentage rising. This is not good and this is the reason why most of us get fat in the first place.

This week I plan on training hard with weights I may do some cardio, because I’ve reduced my cardio workouts quite a lot in recent weeks. So I need to step them up again and start shifting this unwanted ugly body fat. I’m going to also make sure that I am getting a good source of lean protein with every meal, be it from a food source such as chicken or fish or a protein shake. By doing this it will help my body to build muscle which will help to start reducing my body fat percentage again.