Another fortnight done

I'm running a bit late though.  Job hunting and an attack of mutant kitchen appliances have made stress relief more important than ever, too.

Anyway, to the numbers:

• weight: 96.9 (96.4) kg
• BMI: 28.3 (28.2)
• body fat: 27.4 (27.6) %
• muscle: 32.8 (32.7) %
• visceral fat: 12 (12) %

Not much change, which doesn't surprise me, given my current circumstances.

As my teachers usually said, Must Try Harder ...

Ye gods: three months done

Good progress too:

• weight: 96.4 (98.8) kg
• BMI: 28.2 (28.9)
• body fat: 27.6 (29.0) %
• muscle: 32.7 (32.0) %
• visceral fat: 12 (13) %

So my new lifestyle has so far made quite a difference:

• weight LOST: 6.2 kg
• BMI DROPPED: 1.8
• body fat DOWN: 3.5 %
• muscle mass UP: 1.9 %
• visceral fat DOWN: 2 %

 Plus I feel better; more alive and capable.

If I could just crack the knack of meditating ...

Two months and two weeks in

Somehow it seems longer than that: it's been a busy time!

I actually took these measurements on the morning of the 15th. 

• weight: 98.8 (99kg)
• BMI: 28.9 (28.9)
• body fat: 29.0 (31.0) %
• muscle: 32.0 (30.8) %
• visceral fat: 13 (13) %

Slow but steady progress...

Two months done

But what a fortnight...  At my last report I was on the dregs of a chest infection.  For this one I'm at the painful coughing stage of a cold.  In between, my employer was pushed out of business by a US software patent: we have plenty of prior art, but not the $750,000 (minimum) needed to prove it.  So instead of lawyers getting rich that's 6 of us on the dole.  Hi ho ...

Anyway, here's the numbers from the morning of the 1st June.

• weight: 99kg (100.2kg)
• BMI: 28.9 (29.3)
• body fat: 31.0 (28.9) %
• muscle: 30.8 (32.0) %
• visceral fat: 13 (13) %

Given the cold, I'm probably dehydrated, so those figures may be rubbish.  (I clean forgot to record blood pressure).

Walking: there's natural, and there's efficient

I'm finding out that many of the skills that come naturally are not optimal.  Walking is one.  Joanna Hall's technique is way more efficient than merely putting one foot in front of the other.  The follow-through with the ankle is a bit awkward when wearing work boots, as they (by design) support the top of it to prevent straining, and I admit to feeling a tad self-conscious swinging my arms like a child going choo-choo; but the technique works.  I hadn't realised how lax my 'natural' style had become.

Nasty factoid

"Every extra 10kg of body fat a man puts on will require 29km (18 miles) of blood vessels to serve the extra tissue..."

from page 85 of The Rough Guide to Men's Health.

Ways of knowing you are losing weight

Having your trousers fall down when sneezing.

Thankfully I was alone :-)