AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, I feel better now.

This is that rotten, stinking pattern of the first year of my "transformation".  When I was logging  on the RealSolutions board this would happen to me, week after week.  I would burn it up in the gym, I would diet with great accuracy/efficiency and I would log, refresh and analyze the process but with no real progress.

FULL OF SOUND AND FURY, SIGNIFYING NOTHING

For all of my rage I am still just a rat in a cage... (Smashing Pumpkins)

Hmm...  This song lyrics motif is kinda' fun, more:

And all it means is that I'm running on Ice, running on ice... (Billy Joel)

You make me frustrated like I'm stuck in a shoe... (Mommas and the Poppas)

Nobody told me there'd be days like these... (John Lennon)

Unimportant are all the things I can do, because I can't get next to you... (Temptations)

Come on baby, finish what ya' started, I'm incomplete... (Van Halen)

Seems I'm always climbin and fallin and climbin But I keep on tryin'... (Trace Adkins)



It is all this back and forth, all this energy expended with little or nothing to show for it.  Worse, weeks such as this occur: all the work, all the energy, proper eating 95% of the time and the result - WEIGHT GAIN.

Crap.  Total crap.

The good news is that I have learned exactly why this happens - If I even look at a weight bench I put on a pound of muscle.  I put on muscle with very little effort, probably due to my high circulating insulin levels.  So with me there is a real tipping point for calorie intake.  At 2200 calories/day I gain mass but lose no fat.  Between 2000 and 2200 I lose fat modestly and no loss of lean mass.  Now, at 1800 calories/day I can lose about 3.5 lbs. of fat a week and .5-1 lbs. of lean a week and that is a fine deal for me.

So I know that with these results my caloric intake is just a couple hundred higher than it should be.  2200 calories a day will NOT get it done!  Just as happened this week, I'll put on lean mass, and lose little or no fat and have just lost another important week of progress.

This week's focus is on three things: 1) Get the caloric intake down to 1800 a day, 2) Put the fork down between bites (thanks Shawn !) and, 3) Get to the gym every day this week.


Oh, well, onward and upward...

LAST WEEK

Weight: 362.8 lbs.
Body Fat%: 40.1%
Body Fat Weight: 145.48 lbs.
Lean Muscle Mass: 217.32 lbs.
At 15% bf, my goal weight is 255.67
BMI: 49.2
Body Fat to Lose: 107.31 lbs.

THIS WEEK

Weight: 366.5 lbs. Up 3.7
Body Fat%: 40.5% Up .3
Body Fat Weight: 148.43 lbs. Up 2.95
Lean Muscle Mass: 218.08 lbs. Up .7
At 15% bf, my goal weight is 256.55 lbs.
BMI: 49.8
Body Fat to Lose: 109.95 lbs.