Realistic life and realistic goals.

No, I'm not dead. I weigh 187 as of this morning. Last time I wrote about my journey to 10 percent, I was pretty pissed about drifting back into the nineties. Well for the better part of this month, I've been under that.

Last couple weeks have been filled with birthday parties and big dinners. But as I told a buddy of mine, it's easy to see where I ate too much over the last week.

My scale says 26% body fat and 36 percent muscle, but I don't think that's accurate after my last body fat caliper test which put me almost 5 percent lower than that. Either way, its a good yard stick.

I'm going to see if over the next month i can slowly creep toward 180 again. When I actually get into the 170's, I think I'll get another body fat test. After all, the goal is 10 percent.

I've been fairly consistent with not eating anything other than protein at night (after 8 pm), and that's a big deal. I'm pretty in control of my eating during the day, but at night after a hard work out I'm looking for that food reward.

So, let's not do that.

I'll try to take a new picture of myself and let you decide if its working. Yes, 10 percent is the goal, even if it takes me all year.

God bless,

Chris

I'm in trouble again

194. Man for a while the weight was just falling off. I've thought about whats going on and I think it just keeps coming down to bad food choices. We've had oreo cookies in the house for a couple weeks now and I'm eating kids sugar cereals. I did the math on the serving size and calories and its almost double the calories of the cereals I'd been eating previously. I keep wanting to get out and walk but our son is potty training and I really want him to get that down (I go on little hikes with my son all the time.

So these are my rules for the next two weeks. No cereal. No pop. No alcohol. No cookies.

Things I'm going to add back in themogenic coffee, bioslim drinks, and as much whey protein as I want. I tried adding in more vegetables hoping that would fill me up, but I'm finding I eat the vegetables and then I go and eat the cereal. So, veggies are in still, but cereal has to be out for now.

Lastly, I've got to stand on the scale every day. I think when I do this, I'm honest. When I only step on every two weeks I've been unpleasantly surprised.

So every day, all of that. I'll post next week to show you the direction I'm moving.

Dr. Chris

I got fat this week

I went up to 188. Sigh.

Two weeks and four lbs the wrong way!

So, I got on the scale a few days ago and it said 187. Uh-oh. I guess I had been steadily losing weight so fast a few weeks earlier that I had basically given up on watching what I was eating. Well apparently that backfired. So this morning I weighed in at 186 lbs, flat. My body fat measurements are about 27% fat and 36% muscle, which haven't really moved much over the previous few weeks.

Our workouts have been really good, often super intense, but my calories, particularly calories in alcohol consumption have gone way way up. I think I've consumed on average a bottle of wine every week for the last two to three weeks.

That's the biggest change I can think of and pow, boy has it effected my weight loss.

So, even though the studies show red wine might be good for mice, it's not great for my waist line.

Dr. Chris.

Its easy now

This morning I weighed 183. Three pounds until the seventies. Whoo hoo.

Dr. Chris

Small victory

Hello,

Today i weighed in at 187.2. Its the first progressive weight loss I've had in over a month, even if it's only a single pound. However, yesterday I weighted 186, so maybe I'm finding my foothold in the 180's? I sure hope so.

I was better with my supplements this week, even taking them with me to house sit for my parents.

I have a picture of what I looked like last week, even though I didn't post. So that's what's up today.

Hang in there.

Dr. Chris

Two weeks of stationary orbit

I got on the scale this afternoon and it said 190.2.

So I've crept up .6 lbs since this time two weeks ago. Well at least I know how to maintain the weight.

Good thing I was gung-ho on that calorie reduction the first couple weeks because now that I've lost 16 lbs. My body doesn't particularly seem interested in losing more.

Did my body ever really seem interested in losing that weight?" I asked myself last night as I was cramming my wife's homemade cinnamon rolls into my mouth. The answer is decidedly no.

I'm starting to think that all our cardio was really starting to pay off, but on the flip side, I've been eating too late in the evening and I can't run as hard because of it.

Eating late is something that's just going to happen sometimes because of work.

I still intend to get down to 10 percent body fat but I'm hardly motivated at all.

I could say, "Hey I lost 16 lbs. Win."

But that's not really what I'm interested in doing. I really just don't feel like suffering much at all and quite frankly food is a comfort sometimes.

I don't really feel disciplined about losing fat right now, thank goodness for my friend Jamie who relentlessly drags me to the gym. Without him I would be in a world of chubby hurt.

So wherever you are buddy, Thanks.

We'll see how I do next week.

Dr. Chris