Vital statistics exposed, film at eleven

I debated whether to share this post with my Facebook friends. It is one thing to be an anonymous voice on the web but to hang out all you are to all your friends is another; I think measurements are a pretty personal thing and many would be scared to post them online. However, I started this thing two years ago to have accountability, so (in my best Yoda voice) share them I will.

9/26/10
Right Arm below Tricep - 13.75"
Chest (arms up) - 52"
Waist (at navel) - 50"
Hips - 49.5"
Right Thigh - 25"
Right Calf - 19"
Neck - 19.75"

I do find it somewhat interesting looking at the variations in the measurements from this post to what I posted January last year where I was at the same weight. (check the archives) A little bigger here, a little smaller there. One point I might mention with today's stats...these were made a hour after my run vs. sitting at home after getting up in the morning. Didn't know if perhaps the legs might still be swollen from exercise. Eh. It will all average out I guess.

I am about due for another video. It has been a month and I'm down something like 15 lbs. My 42 jeans are comfortable, I got to tighten a notch on the belt and I think my face is thinner. I'll try and get something posted this week.

I got out today and pushed out another half mile gain onto my normal run distance. I ran 2.5 miles in the cool morning breeze. Not bad for a 300lb guy a month back into a fitness routine.

Some numbers return

I forgot my vital stats last night at the office so you get them a day late. Still no measurements, maybe this weekend.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Weight 301.6 (-2.0)
BF% 38.9 (-2.0%)
Fat lost (-6.9)

Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Weight 303.6 (-11.2)
BF% 40.9 (+4.4%)
Fat lost (+9.3)

Friday, August 6, 2010
Weight 314.8
BF% 36.5

Does anybody find it interesting that, with my readings anyway, the first result week after a start shows a jump in body fat? I lost 11 lbs in that time period but I gained 9 lbs of body fat. Then the next week the math says I lost 2 lbs but almost 7lbs of fat. Is that just the water getting rung out of the system? I don't think that is it because I had a 32oz smoothie on the 21st after my run in the evening. My weigh in was at 8:45am the following morning.

Strange.

Today was a good day

The title says it all. I managed to control my mouth and stomach today and got by with a couple chicken breasts, a can of corn, several glasses of iced tea and a strawberry/banana/apple juice smoothie.

I was also able to bear the humidity and shuffle out a 2 mile run this evening after work. Like I said on Facebook, it isn't fast and it isn't pretty but I got the job done. Three and a half weeks from nothing to 2 miles sounds good to me.

Tomorrow is weigh-in day so I should have a new set of numbers for you. Stay tuned.

Back on some type of wagon

Hi all. Somebody left me a comment last week that I had not made a post in over a year. Quite true. Oddly enough I am getting back into something of a groove to kick-start myself into action with my diet and exercise. I just got home from a run and figured I would kick a post out for you all. See the video below for that I posted on YouTube a few weeks ago.



While I have not made it back to raw yet I have changed my eating habits and started to run again.






As another incentive to keep my running up I have registered for the Gobbler Grind 5k in November. That gives me almost two months to double my mileage, which should not be a problem since in three weeks that I have been running again I have went from .5 mile to 1.5 miles. (and if you followed the blog last year you know I went from zero to five miles in a few months)

I must confess to you guys that I am not back on the raw diet, however, I am eating a whole lot more veggies now than I was last month. I am doing a modified carb-cycling diet that is based on that plan I found on Scooby's Workshop. My previous last weigh-in was from early August (so no exact beginning weigh-in point) but as of 4 days ago I am down 11 pounds from my high of 315.

I'll let y'all go for now. Gotta go make my scrambled egg whites and veggies for lunch. Until next time.