Week 44
Monthly measurement night and no changes noted. No gains, no losses. Considering the erratic lifting and eating schedule I have had this summer, I guess I should be pleased that I haven’t undone any of my work to date, but a gain or two would have been nice. BF% pinches are relatively unchanged — only varying a mm or two up and down — since the beginning of the summer, and that’s a biggie since when I am away I am not lifting and I am not eating the way I should be.
The lifting is sure helping the stress level; I am glad I have gotten into this as much as I have. My work situation for the fall took a dramatic, unexpected, change last week and I was getting pretty keyed up & upset about it. I was at the cottage so no lifting and by the time I got home I was nearly a basket case until I threw some weights around again and calmed down considerably. Found out late this week that the changes aren’t looking quite as bad as first feared, so with that news and a couple of nights of lifting, I am a happy camper again.
While I hate to see the summer end, it will be good to get back into the work routine again, mostly because my eating schedule is much more controlled when I am working, and I move around a lot more. I revised my BF% goal to aim for 9% by the end of the year. I was on a pretty good down slope with that through the spring and thought I’d hit that easily by the end of the summer, but with the eating and lifting schedule basically a non-schedule, it turned out that the summer was a maintenance mode time. I have done well so far, but still have that stubborn flab around the middle to burn off yet, the problem area for just about every guy.
So, I keep lifting.
