First Wednesday Weigh-in

I'll be honest, I've been weighing in almost every day, but until this morning I wasn't really sure that I was doing what I had intended to do.

Alas....as of first thing this morning. The scale read 199.8. But the scale says I'm now 42% body fat. I don't think that's right. I'm thinking maybe the batteries are going bad...or maybe this thing doesn't work right.

But the pounds numbers sound about right, as I stepped on a couple scales. So for now, let's assume and hope that my fancy new fat scale is not quite right and that' I haven't spontaneously gained another 10% body fat in a week.


So that's about 5-6 lbs in a week. I'm really happy with that, but I'll be frank, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to pull it off.

I'm 34 years old now. I've been told by people that the older you get the harder it is to lose the weight. So, even though I promised myself that I wasn't going to get crazy, I did cut back pretty hard.

So let me tell you what this week looked like.

Three really good nights at the gym. Jamie(that's my workout buddy)and I pushed really good intensity all three nights and had equally good cardio work outs.

Our workouts consist of 45 mins of diverse weight training and 15 mins of cardio. For cardio, we generally do 5 sets of 10-30 second sprints on the tread mill at 10 mph on an incline of 10-11 degrees then drop the speed down to 2.5 miles per hours and keep the elevation the same while recovering. In all it takes about 12-15 mins. It's brutal but I suck at jogging...so thats what we do.

Yesterday is a good example of how I've been eating. Two eggs for breakfast, 1 cup of my wife's homemade meatball soup. 1 serving protein powder/phytonutrient mix for afternoon snack. 2 chicken enchiladas with rice and beans for dinner. ++ Supplements

Some of you might think that I'm backwards loading my calorie intake, small breakfast, bigger lunch, huge dinner. That's probably true, but I'm staring with protein and that's what all those studies keep saying....breakfast must be protein or else!!!! So that's a start.

In fact, if you look at how I'm eating, you'll probably notice that every meal is high in protein. That's because I'm interested in loosing fat and not muscle.

I'll post tomorrow what that scale says with fresh batteries...hope it isn't worse?

Dr. Chris