My first official weigh-in after 30 days...
I woke up tired from the training. I jumped on the scale. I lost 7 lbs.
I'm not sure how I felt about it. The scale still says I'm at 233 lbs. Yes, it was 240 lbs, and now it's 233 lbs, but 233 lbs is still very much in the fat zone. It's not a number to be happy about.
I was 230 lbs for a long time, then bam, I went up to 240 lbs in a short period of time. Now, I'm still not back down to 230 lbs.
On the one hand, I'm pleased to see I'm down 7 lbs, and I tell myself it's probably a little more if I factor in the muscle gain that offsets some of the fat loss. I guess the feeling is that it's sobering to see how far I have yet to go.
If I average 7 lbs for each of the next few months, that will be a 21-lb weight loss by November 21st. That means I'll still be 212 lbs, which is still a lot of weight, and I still would have 27 lbs to lose to get down to 185 lbs. I wouldn't say I'm depressed about it; I'm just sobered by it and pissed that I let myself gain that much weight.
I can't tell you how many times I've gained and lost 50 lbs. It started in high school, and if I were to guess, it is between 5 and 8 times over the years that I've yo-yo'd up and down 50 lbs. If I factor in how many times I've lost 10 - 20 lbs, I've lost 500+ lbs.
I'm unsure what to expect or if any number would have made me happy unless it was a 20-lb weight loss in 30 days, which would have made me happy. I would have been happy, but it would have been unrealistic, and it would have been a dream.
After I weighed myself, I decided to go for an early morning walk before work. I can't run due to my calf injury, so I thought I'd substitute my scheduled 45-minute run with a walk and risk it, as the calf has been feeling a little better.
I combined the walk with getting a cup of coffee at McDonald's. It's great ordering off the app just before you arrive, and the coffee is ready for you—no waiting, and pre-paid. The good news is that I had to run across the street a couple of times to avoid traffic, and I didn't feel any calf issues. I think by next week, I'm going to test it with a run.
It was a double training session today, with a scheduled one-hour and ten-minute easy bike ride. It was cool outside, which is not the type of weather that motivates me to train. I much prefer hot and humid weather, where it feels like the air is giving you a hug.
Either way, I pushed myself out the door. As I did, I told myself this was only week 5, and I had 14 more weeks of training, and it would not get any easier. On the walk, I asked myself why I was doing this again. The answer was that I want to live and be the person I am on the inside and on the outside. If my outside got too big, it would change the person I am inside.
My bike ride today was better than yesterday. It was slower, but I kept my heart rate lower and focused on keeping my cadence in the 85 - 90 rpm range. I'm also feeling more comfortable on the bike and not as nervous about traffic and crashing.
Before my bike ride late this afternoon, I had Alice help me with body measurements and have her take pictures of me with just shorts on—the same shots I took when I started. I'm doing it monthly so I can see how my body changes from month to month. I did look at the original photos, and it is noticeable that I've lost some of my stomach—not a lot, but it was noticeable.
After measuring my body parts, I compared them to what they were on January 20, 2024, when I was 230.4 lbs. All my body parts are bigger than they were in January, except my waist, which went down from 43.41 " to 42.86", and my arms, which are 1" smaller, which surprised me as I'm only 3 lbs heavier right now. I would have thought after the training I'd done, my measurements would have been less. Hopefully the next 7 lbs of weight loss will bring my measurements lower than what they were back in January.
I'm looking to move to a different diet plan. The one I was following looks like it was only set up for 30 days and doesn't have the next 30 days. I don't think I could eat the same foods and plan for another 30 days. I think there is a value to changing it up, keeping the body guessing. I'm just not sure which one to go on. Maybe Weight Watchers? Noom? Other?
Onward and upward for the next 30 days, and not be so hard on my slow bike speed as I still carry 43 lbs more than when I was crushing it on the bike.
Walk - 45:56 / 3.94 km / avg HR 86 bpm
Bike - 1:16:53 / 29.81 km / 23.3 kph avg
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