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Following the weighing fail of the gym on Sunday and the lesson learnt - never weigh directly after exercise, and especially not weight training exercise. The reason being your muscles that you have been pushing so they'll grow retain water like crazy for about four hours following and you'll end up weighing about 3 lb heavier than you were before directly before you went in the gym.
So I went to Boots today to use their all singing all dancing digital weighing scales with body fat reader.
Turns out that what I really weigh is 150.5 pounds/68.2kg. So happy me today.
I did the body fat read out too. Body fat of 27.4% which is on the low end of average - with 26.8 being where good starts. Below 22% is excellent and below about 19% you're looking at professional athelete level.
Perhaps more interesting than the percentages was finding out what my current lean mass (Bones, organs, skin, muscles etc) is. It's 111.1 lb or 50.4kg
I need to maintain this or else I'm losing muscle instead of fat - which would be a bad thing. I want to lose fat, not just weight regardless of how it comes off.
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150.5 lb
Lost so far: 9.5 lb.
Still to go: 17.5 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 29 January 2013:
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1726 kcal
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Fat: 78.65g | Prot: 82.65g | Carb: 180.63g.
Breakfast: brown sugar, Tea with Milk, mixed seeds, porridge, pilchards. Lunch: water, weight watcher carrot and lentil soup. Dinner: tea, tortilla chip, brown rice, Slow cooker chilli. Snacks/Other: milk, dark 85 chocolate, kiwi fruit, honey, cherry tea, skim milk, coffee , peanuts, apple. more...
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2387 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Shopping - 30 minutes, Sitting - 5 hours, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 30 minutes, Calisthenics (light, e.g. home exercise) - 30 minutes, Standing - 1 hour, Sleeping - 6 hours, Resting - 3 hours and 30 minutes, Desk Work - 6 hours, Housework - 1 hour. more...
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losing 8.8 lb a week
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