I did my weekly weigh in this morning. I came in at 274.4 pounds. I’m very happy with that as it’s a 2.2 pound loss from last week. My muscle mass went from 27.2% to 27.4%. In terms of pounds that’s pretty much the same muscle weight, but it is the one percentage I do like to see go up. My body fat went from 37.5% to 37.1%, or from 103.7 pounds to 101.8 pounds. So most of my weight loss this week was body fat. Great news there, and I’m excited to be so close to having less then 100 pounds of body fat.
Exercise wise I was a bit under expectations. I traveled to Nashville on Thursday and caught a bug while I was there. Spent a couple of days in bed, so very low activity level. On the plus side, being in ketosis I weather being in bed much better. Back on my glucose diet that would have led to me being starved by the end and making really bad food choices the day after recovery. On the ketogenic diet my body just relied a little more on itself for fuel, which explains the 2 pound fat drop, even though I didn’t exercise as much.
Meditation wise I did improve. When you’re laying in bed for a couple of days you have plenty of time to get some done. I think that also made the recovery a lot more agreeable. Even when sick, if you’re keeping a positive, meditative mindset you still feel happy overall.
On the YouTube channel, I’m doing really well. Already up to four videos and I’ll post my fifth in two days. View wise, things are going well better than I had hoped. I had planned on real slow going at the start. Maybe 5-10 views tops per video. My lowest views is the last video I posted at 13. Altogether I’ve gotten 116 views, nearly triple my highest expectation. As of last night my videos have been watched for a total of 385 minutes. I even have 6 subscribers, and I thought it would take a month or two before getting my first. This is a situation like I talked about in yesterday’s post. I just set an intention for success on my YouTube channel instead of specific benchmarks and the universe is providing better results than I imagined. I still understand that this is a long-term success project, and I’ll keep putting up new videos every week, but I’m certainly satisfied with how things are starting.
On the book front, sadly the results aren’t as good. When I got started on the YouTube channel I let that take priority. And it became my sole focus. While the book is mostly complete from a first draft perspective, it should be in the final draft stage by now. Since the YouTube channel is moving along nicely I’ll devote more of my time in the next few weeks to the book.
On the money front, some old habits crept back in. Mainly in the form of books. I enjoy downloading samples to my Kindle so I get an idea if I’ll like a book before I buy. Unfortunately some habits die hard. After reading a few samples and liking the books I jumped on Amazon and bought them. Although the books are ones that are good reads for being a better person, they weren’t necessary purchases so they were a violation of the rules. So I’m posting it here for accountability reasons.
That wraps up this weeks update. Had a few shortfalls but mainly I feel like this week was a move in the right direction. I’m focusing on keeping it going and closing the year out strong in these last two months. Next week will be my monthly update with pics. See you then.
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