Heavy Weight

Week 8 progress report

Week 8 has arrived. This week I lost 2.4 pounds not the 3+ pounds I have been experiencing but still well above my initial expectations for this weight loss regiment. I am now within 17 pounds of my goal, bringing my total weight loss to 30 pounds. All my "lean" clothes are finally fitting again and I'm swimming in all my  XL "fat" clothes. The tight fitting "muscle" shirts I have been avoiding the last couple years are looking good and going on with ease.

I feel I may be near a weight loss plateau. If weight loss starts to level off over the next couple weeks I will re-schedule an appointment with the Metabolic Institute and I will have my BMR/RMR tested again to re-establish my calorie/exercise base.

Tomorrow is another photo shoot day. I'm excited to post this months pictures, the difference is going to be dramatic from last months pictures.

Here are the usual weekly stats:

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Week 7 progress report

It just keeps falling off. Week 7 is here and I lost 3.2 pounds this week which brings my total loss to 27.2 pounds. Everything is still on track, averaging .51 pounds of fat loss per day. Tomorrow morning I will surpass the 50,000 calorie mark. That means I will have burned over 50,000 calories doing cardio over the last 7 weeks. I'm excited for the upcoming photo shoot, the results this last month are going to be really dramatic. Here are the weekly stats:

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Week 6 progress report

Well, I retract my statement from last week that things are normalizing. I'm back to losing 4+ pounds per week. This week I lost 4.2 pounds. That puts my 6 week total loss to 24 pounds and I'm still losing an astounding half pound per day on average. I have finally passed the half way point, I have now lost more weight than I have to lose. Only 22.8 pounds left to drop.

Yet again I have added more detailed stats to the excel document. There is now "Average weekly loss" and "Weeks to goal". Average weekly loss is obviously the weekly loss average in pounds and the Weeks to goal is a calculator that tells me how many weeks are left until I meet my weight loss goals. Right now "Weeks to goal" is forecasting me to meet my desired weight of 190 in 6 weeks. Trend graph has moved out slightly which I have been expecting.

Same old routine, here are the weekly updated stats:

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Useful site: Joe's Goals

Today I decided I would blog about something I find useful as an inspirational tool to keep me motivated and log my progress. Joes Goals is a easy to use goal tracking website. Quoting there about page:

"Joe's Goals is a simple yet powerful tool to make tracking your goals the easiest part of accomplishing them. Use our simple single page interface to setup daily and weekly goals and track your overall progress and score. Setup negative goals (or vices) to confront and overcome the bad habits that finally need to get the boot."

I really enjoying logging into Joe's goals every day and checking off yet another workout. As of today I'm 66 days in without missing any morning workouts. Thats 7 days a week of cardio twice per day. Feels really good  each day clicking the check for the workout. Anyhow I just thought I would share another tool that keeps me on track to my goal. You can check out Joe's goals at www.joesgoals.com

Week 5 progress report

Week 5 is here and everything is moving along smoothly. Im down 217! That brings my total loss to 19.8 pounds. Only 27 more pounds till I reach my goal of 190 :)  I lost 2.6 pounds this week. It seems things are normalizing a bit, from the 4+ pounds per week I was losing. However, I am still happy i'm dropping more than 2 pounds per week. Fight training, diet and cardio are all going excellent. Energy levels are high and overall I feel great.

This week I have added even more stats to the excel document. You can see these additional stats at the top of the document. I have broken down the stats into monthly views so I can compare my average stats month to month.

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Week 4 progress report

Here we are week 4. Thing are moving along great, I am 10 pounds ahead of my target weight for this week. This weeks 7 day loss was 4.4 pounds. As of week 4 I have lost 17.2 pounds this weekends photo shoot also went wonderfully. Take a look at the before and after photo and you can see there is major difference especially in my back photos.

Here are my usual weekly PDF's showing all of my stats and logs for week 4. I added some additional stats to my daily chart. Now I can see my daily weight loss average which is hovering around .59 pounds lost per day. The trend graph is still on target to hit my goal weight of 190 by the end of January. I was expecting some kind of normalization that would push my target date out to March or April on the trend graph but it hasn't moved.

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Second photo shoot before and after pictures.

Here we are December 1st! New pictures have been taken and I have created a before and after style picture to go along with it. I have lost 16 pounds in 28 days! Its amazing the change that has occurred in just 28 days. I'm excited to see what the coming months will bring. Click on the picture below for the enlarged version.