Week 26
Week 26. Wow, a full half year of sticking with the serious BBing. BF% pinches are down a bit more this week, chart says I am solidly around 13%. Not sure I believe that to the decimal point, as it seems like I still have too much flab around my middle to be getting close to 10%, but the pinch total is down overall a bit from two weeks ago. Last week I was up 2 mm from the week before, this week I am down 3mm from last week, so I am down a mm from two weeks ago. Whatever, it’s progress in the right direction.
Had a pleasant discovery of another benefit of BBing this week… I am actually stronger for the regular activities of life. I had to pull the middle seat of my minivan out yesterday so I could get some large stuff in the car — the first time I have had to do this in many months – and it was a breeze to handle that (formerly) miserable middle seat that always seemed like it weighed ton. I yanked that out and got it in the garage with nary a grunt or gasp. Cool! I used to hate having to handle that thing.
Then today I was doing some roof work with an organization that I belong to on a small building that they own. We had to reshingle one side of the roof of a small out building that had sustained some winter damage. I ended up on the roof doing a lot of the shingling and I was barely winded by the task. I was standing on the 2×4 we were using as a cleat that we had nailed on the roof to keep us from sliding off and before my serious BBing I think my legs would have given out, but I hardly noticed that I was up there for three hours straight. I was with guys who all had the middle age beer guts and they were really straining getting stuff up and down the ladders and/or working on the roof with me. I worked straight through and they were all taking breaks because they were winded. One of the guys is only a couple of years older than me, the rest were 10 or more years older. Made me feel pretty good about busting my butt all winter with the iron. I did all that and then went home and unloaded the car and put the seat back in and then did a lot of yard work around the house… I don’t think I could have done all that previously, at least not without being rather fatigued somewhere along the way.
My weight came down somewhat this week and got back down to my all-time-recent-low of 174 for a day and has crept back up to 176 again. I think it’s water weight coming and going, especially today since it was very warm and I was drinking lots. The BF% pinches tell me I am down in the BF dept. so maybe, just maybe, I am gaining some muscle weight??
Here’s hoping and liftin’…
