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06 June 2019

Not posted anything in here since March. I've been busy. Not busy working but busy exercising. I haven't been concentrating on losing weight because all my attention has been on fitness. I have been following the 5x5 Stronglifts fitness program. That involves weight training three times a week to increase strength. Tomorrow marks weeks 15 following the program.

In late February:

100 lb squat
88 lb deadlift
88 lb bench press
50 lb overhead press
88 lb Pendaly row
132 lb lat pulldown
110 lb Fly

Beginning of June:

220 lb squat
240 lb deadlift
121 lb bench press
88 lb overhead press
154 lb Pendaly row
210 lb lat pulldown
154 lb Fly

During this program, I have gained 2kg of body weight but I'm fine with that given the increase in strength. I wasn't trying to lose weight, rather just hold my weight steady while gaining strength. I measured my body fat content and I'm currently at 31% body fat by mass, which would mean my lean body mass is 74.5kg.

Before my summer holiday to Europe in mid-August, I want to get down to under 100 kg total body weight and under 22.5% body fat. To that, I'm going to have to count the calories very carefully. Not too many, but the difficult thing is also not too few.
Weigh-in: 238.1 lb lost so far: 22.0 lb still to go: 50.7 lb Diet followed reasonably well
   add comment gaining 0.4 lb a week

21 March 2019

Weigh-in: 234.1 lb lost so far: 26.0 lb still to go: 46.7 lb Diet followed reasonably well
   add comment losing 1.1 lb a week

01 March 2019

Weigh-in: 237.2 lb lost so far: 22.9 lb still to go: 49.8 lb Diet followed N/A
   add comment gaining 0.4 lb a week

18 August 2018

Weigh-in: 225.5 lb lost so far: 34.6 lb still to go: 38.1 lb Diet followed reasonably well
   add comment losing 2.3 lb a week

10 August 2018

It's been 4 months since I last weighed in on this site. Back then, I was midway through a program to run 10 km. I finished that program successfully just before the summer break. Then things went downhill from there.

The gym next to my house suddenly closed with no explanation. One day I turned up to find bailiffs loading the equipment onto trucks. So I had to join a new gym about a mile further away. Then I have also been super busy at work, so I've only managed to get to the gym once a week on average during the summer.

The upshot of that is my weight is back up. Pretty much exactly where it was a year ago. So we have to start all over again.

From this week, I am following the Starting Strength program by Mark Reppetoe (see the book on Amazon). Even though I've gained back the weight, I have also gained a huge amount of muscle. I'm so much stronger and fitter than I was last year. So I should put that strength to good use to cut the fat back down decisively.
Weigh-in: 228.2 lb lost so far: 32.0 lb still to go: 40.8 lb Diet followed poorly
   add comment gaining 0.8 lb a week

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