Sat Jan 5th
Learned the importance of taking pictures this week. I had no idea that I had made the progress I have so far until I got looking at some pix I snapped trying to get a shot or two of my still-too-small-but-growing traps. The trap pix didn’t show anything worth sharing, but the front relaxed pic I snapped just for the heck of it (I am taking my progress pix around the 20th of each month) and put against my previous progress photo really opened my eyes. Wow! This diet-minding and working out stuff is really working!
I looked at my photo from October when I started into this seriously and saw, perhaps for the first time, how fat/chubby/tubby/overbulked ;) I really was. That was an eye-opener alone. I always knew I was carrying more than I should for weight, but always thought "it wasn’t much" over what it should be. Wrong!
My weight has been nudging 180 the last couple of days. Like 180.5, so I am not reporting it as 180 until I really hit 180. Years ago when I wanted to reduce a bit (and was weighing around 205/210, there was a time I was nearing 220) I always thought 180 would be a good weight to get down to — not knowing anything about body fat percentages. Now that I am there and still have a flabby belly and no visible abs I see that I need to trim yet more. I also now know that weighing 180 with 10% bf is far different from 180 with 20% bf.
Bottom line: take good pix from the same angles periodically to keep track of your progress! You see yourself everyday and don’t notice the subtle changes, but the camera does!
