November Monthly Update
So, it’s been another month and it’s time for an update. A few highlights:
- New food plan cut about 600 calories per day out of my diet and my performance has suffered for it. No times/weights of note, other than that I’ve felt depleted compared to July thru September.
- I’ll be fixing the food mess and doing a bit of back tracking in order to bring my metcon numbers back up AND to provide enough of a nutritional base to add some weight to my heavy lifts.
- Added some extra heavy lifting and extra work on my weaknesses (pullups, dips, handstand pushups, long rows, etc) along with 12 or so other folks from Jogo
Progress Update
So, I got pinched again this morning and I’m down to 10.87% bodyfat. This is NOT what I was hoping for. Trying to get down to single digits before the decimal! Dropped 11 lbs, but only 5.25 lbs of fat—the rest was lean mass. Alas. On the plus side, though, I’m below 12% bodyfat for the first time, which was once a goal, so that’s another PR (of sorts) that I can cross off the list. Also, it’ll take less than 3 lbs of net fat loss to hit single digits. I’m thinking right around 220 while maintaining my current LBM will be just right.
Here’s hoping my continued low-carb ways keep the fat off. I’ll be adding back in a pile of protein and healthy fats to add to my overall calories to feed to newly expanded workload.
It’s been a while since I’ve updated my progress photos as well, and I thought I’d do that this past weekend. In case there’s any confusion about the dates, the pics from January 2008 are indistinguishable from what I looked like on May 12, 2008 when I did my first CrossFit workout. Here are the latest progress photos:
January 2008 vs. November 2009 (Front)
January 2008 vs. November 2009 (Profile)
Some additional info:
- Since starting at Jogo, I’ve lost 49 lbs, including 42 lbs of fat.
- At my heaviest (in 2005), I was 282 lbs.
- I haven’t weighed less than 225 since, at least, Feb/Mar 1997. More probably, it’s been since Spring 1994, my freshman year of high school. And wasn’t strong or fit at either time.
