D.Alan’s BodyBlog

I did it: I stuck to a workout and diet plan for 52 weeks… one year!  No, I am not ripped and awesome after that year, so don’t give me hater rates for that… I know it.  My diet isn’t perfect and my "home gym" is a motley assortment of dumbbells and a $40 bench from Wal-Mart.  But, in that year I have dropped 21 pounds (down 11%) and my body fat pinch total has gone from 73 mm to 31 mm (down 42%) … if that isn’t progress, I don’t know what is. 

I have had some modest gains in the other body stats.  My arms are where I started so it looks like there is no progress there, but they got smaller at first as the fat left and got built back up with muscle.  Shoulders did the same thing: got smaller and then went back to where I started..  My chest is up an inch and a quarter, my thighs are up nearly an inch, forearms are up 3/8" and my waist has had the most dramatic change, starting at 39" and it’s now down to nearly 34".  Not bad overall for cutting and trying to gain at the same time.

Here’s to the coming year… hopefully I can get the diet dialed in a bit better and start making some better gains.  Thanks to all for their support and encouragement over the previous year, you know who you are!

Meanwhile I’m gonna keep liftin’.

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