Clem08’s BodyBlog

I’ve been lifting pretty heavy and eating tons. This week my weaight went up two pounds and I am now at 170. MY bf % is at 19%. Once I get to 175 lbs I will update my stats.

I think that it is fair to say that I started this goal "informally" over the holidays. Since I knew that I was going to eat allot anyway, I decided to start to lift heavy and put myself in a bulking period. That being saidd, my starting weight and bf% of 157 @ 15% were in mid-December. Today, I weigh 168 and I am at 18%. I am looking to gain 7 more pounds. I will update my stats in a later post.

Last year I dropped 28 lbs and 40% of my body fat, dropping my overall bf% from 25 to 15%. I began in January and finally accomplished this goal in September. Since then, I have been a kind of lax with my diet, but I have pretty much kept up with my workouts.

At any rate, this year my goal is to gain 10 lbs of lbm.  I will start bu bulking up to 175 lbs @ 18% bf,  and then cutting down to 170 lbs @15%bf. This will result in an overall 10 lbs of lbm when comapred to the starting weight that I am usinng which is 157 lbs @15% bf

I am also going to track my body part measurements to see where the lbm winds up. My current stats are as follows:

Weight 167, BF% 19, Arm 16.75, forearm 13.25, Chest 45, Shoulder 50, Waist 32, Hips 37, Thigh 22.5, Calf 16

I will be tracking my progress each week.

After almost eight months, I have finally reached my goal of getting my BF % down to 15.

I started weighing in at 185 lbs with a BF % of 25. This meant that I had LBM of 138.75 lbs and BF of 46.25 lbs.

Reaching this goal took almost three times longer than I planned, but all of this time helped me to develop a better long term diet.

I am now at 157 lbs with a BF% of 15. This gives me an LBM of 133.45 and BF of 23.55. So, of the 28 lbs of lost weight, 22.7 was fat and 5.3 was mass.

I am going to spend the next few months, maintaining the 15% BF level and work on "clean bulking" back the muscle that I lost.

Thanks to all of you who commented and checked out this blog. It was an amazing motivator to know that so many people were paying attention. 

So far, I have reduced my BF by 36%. I lost two more pounds over the last couple of weeks. My weight is now down to 156 from 185. This is great!!

Unfortunately, I remain at 16% BF, so I still have 1% to go to reach my goal. I’m just going to keep at it, it’s got to happen eventually, and I like my current diet an exercise program.

Over the past two weeks I have lost one bpound and I am now down to 158 from 185.

I also dropped 1% of BF and am now down to 16% from 25%. I just need to lose 1% more to reach my goal.

I’ve hit a plateau!! I dropped a pound and am now down to 159 from185, but my BF% has remained at 17% for a full month. This is 2% higher than my goal of 15%.

This week I am cutting out carbs big time, and I am stepping up my workouts. My hope is that this will bring me down to 16% BF.

Lost two more pounds this week. I am now down to 160 from 185. I remain at 17% BF. These last few % points have been really challenging. I am hoping to get down to 16% by the end of this week.

Dropped 1% this week, I am now down from 25% BF to 17% BF. Worked hard and took in a lot of extra protein.

I did not loose any weight, but this is OK, because I feel like I’m getting kind of light.  

I lost 3 pounds this week! I am now down to 162.

For the record, I never really set out to lose weight, I was under the mistaken notion that I could literally convert my fat into muscle. So, I thought at the end of it all, I would weigh about (185 lbs)the same with more mass and more cut up.

I have since learned a great deal. My BF % remains at 18. which is disappointing because I am still 3% points away from my ultimate goal of 15%. On the positive side however it feels great to have lost the weight and I’ve been able to maintian almost all of my mass and starting to really cut up.

I am eating an almost all protein diet this week, hopefully it wll help me to drop some BF