Week 31
Measurement night for the month… more good news! Chest is up a bit, waist is down a bit more, arms continue to remain the same. BF% pinch total is down another mm. In all, I can’t complain too much.
My weight hit a new low this week, 173, and has held for a few days. Cutting back on the protein shakes seemed to do the trick. Obviously the higher amount that I was taking of them for most of the month since my last measurements didn’t do a lot for me: arms are unchanged, my thighs are down a bit… nothing to get excited about, and no significant gains. So, I will stay on the old schedule of two shakes on a day I lift and one or none the days I don’t.
Had a couple of nice encounters regarding my new look and abilities this week. A colleague is retiring in a few weeks so a party was thrown and a number of retired folks I once worked with came back for the festivities with those of us still working. One of the retired folks, whom I have not seen in a couple of years, just raved about my appearance. A couple of others also commented about how good I look. It was a good ego booster and reinforcement for busting my butt with the iron all winter, and I think also points out that I was a bit too fat before I started seriously working out.
The other encounter was today. I was in a store and was buying a 50-lb sack of material. I carried it by the corner of the bag with one hand to the checkout counter, as I was carrying something else in the other hand. I set the 50-lb sack on the floor by the counter and the woman is saying, "Oh, you have the 25-lb sack" and is about to ring it up as that, and I told her no, I have the 50-lb. "Oh," she says, "you were handling it like a 25-lb." I thought that was a pretty cool comment.
Just more proof that all this really does work and it is showing in all sorts of ways. I took some progress pix tonight and will have to go through them and see what, if anything, is worthy of sharing. I think my lats are beginning to look good with my pullups, but that may just be me. Have to maybe put together another back progress side-by-side pic… and keep liftin’.
