So little bit of bad luck this week. I live in a relatively new neighborhood. There’s still construction going on all around me, including digging in the ground to run lines. And the other day one of the companies that was doing that hit the fiber optic line. So for the past few days I haven’t had internet (or television, although I didn’t mind that as much). Everything is now back up and running so I can do my weekly update. And starting tomorrow I’m going to go back to trying to post daily for a week, give or take another internet knockout.
This Monday I weighed in at 291.2 pounds. This is down 2.4 pounds from last week. I was really shocked by this because I had moved my day off from keto up to last Tuesday. I was meeting a friend I hadn’t seen in a long time for lunch and felt it would be easier to find a mutually agreeable place to eat if we weren’t working around my keto requirements. Usually after a day off from keto my weight goes up. The fact that it not only didn’t go up but it went down by quite a bit was amazing. And it was mostly fat. My body fat percentage went from 40.5% down to 40.1% which means I lost 2.2 pounds in fat and based on the other numbers that stayed the same the other .2 pounds lost had to be water.
At 40.1% I’m just one or two weigh ins from being under 40% body fat. Being happy about being 40% body fat, or just under, might seem a little odd until you take into account that when I started this journey on the first day of this year I was 52% body fat. So I’m nearly 12 percentage points lighter then when I started. And if I make the same drop in the second half of the year I’ll be at around 28% body fat, almost half of what I started.
Looking back over the last week it’s easy to see what the culprit is for this surprise drop. I’ve been really good about my exercise this week. I’ve added two things that are really speeding the weight loss up. The first is I started making better use of the dip station I bought. I still can’t push my body weight up yet so what I started doing was locking my arms, picking my feet up off the ground, and then slowly lowering myself until I dropped. I could do this for a couple times before I’d go straight to dropping. This is good, but last week I decided to add another twist. When I get to the point where I just drop I switched to locking my arms out and then bring my knees up high as I can and then lower them. This is giving me a great ab workout, plus tuckers out the arms, strengthening my upper body better.
The other things I started doing last week is going from walking to walking with jogging sprints interspersed along the way. It’s not a wholesale HIIT workout but it certainly moves in that direction. And I think the results speak for themselves. Clearly I’m burning more fat during the week then what I was during the previous weeks. So I’ll be keeping up this practice. I’m getting better each time, being able to jog a little faster for a little longer on each run.
This wraps up this weeks weigh in. The next one will be just a few days away as this one got posted late due to the internet outage. See you again for the next weigh in, and tomorrow for my next daily post.
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