Well, most of the year anyway. I didn’t start using the blog again until March. However I have been tracking my weight from day one of 2018. And here we now are on day 365. A lot of progress has been made.
On Day 1 I weighed in at 352.6 pounds. This morning I weighed in at 267.8 pounds. Just shy of 85 pounds by .2 pounds. Just over 7 pounds a month.
On Day 1 I was 52% body fat. I was carrying around 183.4 pounds of body fat. That’s a good-sized adult’s body weight, just in fat. When I weighed in this morning my body fat was 35.8%. In pounds that’s 95.9. So I’ve lost 87.5 pounds of fat, 2.7 pounds greater than my total weight loss.
Unfortunately my body composition was outside the parameters of the scale I use for keeping track of my improvements. So I can’t say for sure what that 2.7 pounds of difference is. I have worked out a bit so it could be muscle mass. Then again it could be water weight. Or some combination of the two.
I see greater muscle definition as I lose weight so I’d like to believe the 2.7 pounds is muscle growth, but I recognize that as I’ve lost a lot of body fat I could just be getting a better view of what was there all along. What’s important is I’m loving how my body is changing, so the details are just details.
My exercise game has improved greatly. At the beginning of the year I failed to meet my move goal on 5 days of the month. The move goal is measured in calories. At the time I had it set for 680. The exercise ring, which is measured in minutes has a 30 minute goal. I only reached it 12 days that month. The final ring is the stand ring. It makes sure you stand for at least a short time for 12 hours of the day. I closed that ring every day.
For December I’ve closed all three rings on every day except one. On the 7th I nodded off and failed to get my second workout in. My move goal has been increased to 770 so I’m not only meeting my goals, they’re harder goals to meet.
Also, when I started my exercise consisted completely of just walking. Now I do body weight exercises, jump roping, and some weight lifting.
As for who I am on the inside, well that’s changed a lot, too. At the beginning of the year I’d do my best about trying to get in at least one meditation session a day, but often fell short of the goal. Now I get in at least one session a day, often times two, and occasionally three. Quality wise it’s a little harder to record because it’s a subjective analysis, but I do think that’s improved as well. While my mind still wanders substantially more than I’d like, it doesn’t wander nearly as much as it used to. At the beginning of the year I was happy with a 10 minute session, and now I go for 20-30 minutes when I meditate.
I feel better and more positive. Again, it’s a subjective measurement, but in this case subjectivity is ok as if you feel you’re happier you kinda are happier, or you wouldn’t feel happier. If that makes any sense. I know I deal with things a little more calmly, and certainly get centered again quicker then I used to. And I feel a lot more positively about my future.
Finance wise, I’m doing better but still have ways to go. I’m getting bills paid off and credit card debt down. I will be switching jobs sometime in the near future so we’ll see how that affects things.
So that’s the year in review except for the final thing, the review of pictures. They will go from the current (olive drab long sleeve t-shirt) back in time to my oldest, the Flash t-shirt. Feel free to leave a comment on how you think I did this year. Or suggestions on ways to improve going into 2019. Here’s to an upcoming great year.
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