Good morning!
It's a beautiful morning in Denmark! It seems that the summer - which we were assuming had packed up and moved south already - is back! It's weather for shorts and sun glasses! I like!
Yesterday was a BUSY - but fun - day. It was our long day at work, and straight after work I went to work at the gym. Man, it was BUSY! I did 9 rounds of introductions to our system and machines in 4 hours! Wow.
I was BEAT when I came home.
The result today was pretty clear. I'm down 1.2 kilos, so today I am at 82.7 kilos. My legs are sore from HOURS of standing up, but I feel great.
I decided to skip my walk this morning and go to work early instead. Early in equals early out - and I can do my walk when the sun has warmed up the air and I can take wife out for a stroll. It'll be nice.
I did my workout, though. I sent a text to the owner of the gym letting him know that I'd go in early, and be gone again before he'd get there. I was working out at 5:45 am, and done 6:15, and at work at 6:30. How about that! Talk about efficiency! :)
I was actually debating whether I should do the workout today, or wait until tomorrow. I'm working the gym tomorrow, so I could just squeeze it in before work. I'm glad I went today though. It would have bothered me if I didn't.
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A buddy of mine asked about the scales that we use at the gym. The one that measures bodyfat, metabolic rate, muscle mass, etc.
I took a look at it this morning, and found out that it's a Tanita Innerscale BC-545N - take a look at it
here.
I'm seriously considering buying one, if I can find it at a good price. It's expensive, but it's a GREAT tool.
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So, today I have NO plans, other than work and walk. I have NOTHING going on. I have no food plan, nothing.
My idea for today is to leave work around 11:30, and Wife and I will go have lunch. It'll be a very reasonable lunch, the same place where we normally go on Saturdays. Since I'm working tomorrow, I figured I'd treat her out.
There is no buffet today, so I am a lot safer than I'd be tomorrow. :) Today is just general, average, Danish house hold dishes, and I can easily find something good with plenty of meat for my protein intake.
Dinner will be cooked at home, and we'll shop for it after lunch. I have no idea what it'll be just yet.
There will be no snacks, other than fruit and maybe a protein shake if I need it.
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Yesterday was great on the calories too. If I was to critique anything, it would be that I was too low! I had 900 calories left when I went to bed. I felt this a little during my workout this morning. I felt that I didn't have the same raw strength that I usually do, but I was still able to push through it and finish everything.
I had all my protein, and enough fat.
Again, 1.2 kilos down since yesterday is really nice.
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So, tomorrow will be a busy day. I probably won't get to journal much, unless Wife and I wake up very early. I will try to get my sleep in, so it probably won't happen. We'll see.
Tomorrow will be a GREAT day to SKIP Indulgence Day for me. It will be a normal eating day.
I will be at the gym from 8 am to 3 pm, and in all that time I obviously can't have any bad foods. I can't be munching pizza or eating candy while people are working out to lose weight! That would be SO wrong. LOL.
So, once I am off from work, I essentially just have to "behave" for another 4 hours, and my feeding window will close and I won't be able to do any further damage. The trick is simply for me to eat proper food for lunch at the gym, stick to fruit for snacks, have a nice, large dinner with Wife and Daughter, and then leave it at that. Maybe a small snack post-dinner, but nothing major. I can do this.
I'm curious how this will affect my fluctuations, my further weight drop, and everything else that I normally see going up (and going bad) on Sunday mornings. I hope to see that I can still drop another kilo or two, but I am not at all sure that this will happen. Just how much fluid build-up do I have? How much can I actually shed?
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It's interesting, though. I measure my weight, body fat, abdominal fat and BMI every morning. And of course I observe my looks. And some strange/interesting things are happening these days - it's coming after I upped my calories.
1. I weigh more. A couple of kilos. They come off fast, though, and might as well be from me pigging out on weekends.
2. I have increased weight on so many machines at the gym over the last few weeks. Two more today alone!
3. My body fat percentage is climbing. When I weight around 80 (and under) it usually sits around 5-7%. Today, at 82.7 kilos, it's 11%. Several days this last few weeks has it been 10+%.
...these thing would make me think that I am getting fatter. Increased weight, increased fat%.
However...
4. I can CLEARLY see my arms and upper body get more toned. I see veins on my hands and arms that I never knew I had. Not even when I was 8 kilos lighter did I see these. I am leaner than I have ever been.
5. My belt is still buckled in the last (innermost) hole. I have never been able to do this before. Mind you, I have cut 5 holes in the belt to accomplish this. The last to were "just in case I'd ever get to that point, though I doubt it". Well, I'm there now. I can't get any skinnier, as my hip bones won't allow me to tighten the belt any more.
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Seeing these things makes me wonder if there is much more fluid to shed, but that it just hasn't happened because of bad food choices on the weekends? I have definitely been going overboard way too many times. I really want to skip doing that tomorrow, to see if I can knock it out of the ball park over the course of the next week.
Again, all it requires for me to do is it eat real food. It's easy.
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Today, I'm thankful for:
- Having the keys to the gym!
- Getting my workout done!
- Summer having a small comeback this weekend.
- Wife!
- Morning coffee!
Have a great weekend! Life is good!