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There’s over two weeks left in 2009, but my mind keeps telling me to write off the year and start over again in 2010. This year for me has had plenty of ups and downs. I’ve had months of success, then my fat loss as stalled for months. I am so much happier now than I was 12 months ago. This time last year I was over 40 pounds heavier and very unhappy with the way I looked.
I am still not 100% happy and I’ve got around 15 pounds of body fat to lose. But I know that in the not to distance future I will reach my goal and have six pack abs. My metabolism at the moment is running like a teenagers, this is all down to my short and intense weight training workouts and eating every two to three hours. Last week I managed to lose two pounds in body weight and I wasn’t that strict with my diet. I’m eating around 4,000 calories every day at the moment just to maintain weight. Which is a good thing considering the amount of food I’m eating at the moment.
There’s still over two weeks left in 2009, so I’m going to keep at it and try not to put any body fat on over the Christmas period. This is going to be hard considering the amount of parties and meals out I have planned over the Christmas period. Realistically my body fat percentage is going to be around the 19% mark come the end of 2009. I didn’t hit the target of 10% I set for myself, but I’ve lost 40 pounds of pure body fat. Which is a total success in my eyes, plus because I’m carrying less body weight its only going to get easier for me at this point on.
Over the next two weeks I’m going to eat lots and train hard so hopefully I may be able to pack on a bit of lean body mass which will help in lowering my body fat percentage. As most of my regular readers know I measure my body fat percentage on my body fat scales each week. Well my wonderful wife has just got me for Christmas a fantastic set of digital body fat calipers which I am going to throw into my measurement schedule each week.
One thing I will guarantee you in 2010 is I will tell you regularly how I’m progressing on my fat loss journey. I’m so disappointed when I search the Internet for weight loss blogs, with 99% of them not showing us how there doing on their journey. If you are gaining weight don’t be embarrassed, record it because I have found this blog to be a great motivation to my fat loss success. My friends and family read the blog, and when they look at my body fat chart and see it going up I get called every name under the sun. Which for me, is exactly what I need to keep moving forward.
