D.Alan’s BodyBlog

The holiday busy-ness is upon me and I haven’t written a blog post, but I have been mostly good about keeping up with the liftin’.  Started out the Christmas break with a lot of old-fashioned cardio… snow shoveling!  We were hit with a series of storms in the days before Christmas which had me outside shoveling the driveway, mostly digging out the big snow plow drifts.  Then it warmed up and melted and then there was the wet, heavy snow to move around.  I admit to skipping an abs workout, but my back wouldn’t have tolerated it after all the shoveling.  My back was getting pretty sore after 4-5 straight days of intense shoveling.

I have been pretty good about not over indulging in all the holiday food too much, though my weight is up a bit.  Just before Christmas I had several days of my all-time low weight of 167 but it is creeping up.  It could be water retention due to too much salt in some of the things I have eaten.  Whatever, I am not stressing about it.  BF% pinch over the weekend was unchanged from the week before.

Had a PM today from another BodySpacer telling me that my progress is an inspiration to him.  I still can’t believe people telling me that.  I see myself as a guy who was fat for far too long and while I have made some progress over the past year, I am still too big around the middle, my gains have been modest at best, and so on.  I see lots of improvement yet to make but some others see it much differently.  As I say in my profile, for a guy who was always the picked-on tubby kid, I can’t quite get used to being told that my BB progress is an inspiration.

Which is why I will keep liftin’ … there’s more progress to be made!

Didn’t write a blog post last week.  Didn’t feel like it.  Damned visitor counter has been broken since August so I have no idea if anyone is even looking at these, and it just didn’t seem like it worth the effort since I have no idea if anyone is reading it.  There’s so many things broken in BodySpace right now: Body blog counter.  Body points counter.  Date indicator on the body stats is stuck at November 19th even though I update it almost daily.  Tried a few msgs to the admin from time to time and no response.  Gotta love it.

Meanwhile, my lifting and etc. has been continuing.  Weekly BF% pinches are unchanged over the last couple of weeks.  Weight has been relatively stable, yet I seem to be getting leaner looking.  That would maybe mean that the fat is slowly changing into muscle (well, muscle is replacing the fat, I know fat doesn’t change into muscle!), but the BF% pinches don’t indicate that.  Strange.

Funny how people view "the new me."  A couple of weeks ago a co-worker was calling me "skinny" which p*ssed me off because I haven’t been busting my rear with the weights for a year to be called "skinny."  Then, this week I saw a retired colleague whom I have not seen in quite a while and he said to me, "Wow, you’ve bulked up, you look great."  Same body, two different views.

Christmas and the feeding frenzy that comes with that is fast approaching.  The first family gathering of the season is next weekend, and I am sure there will be nothing to eat…  Gotta stick with the workout routine and trying to monitor what I eat and keep it in moderation.  Most importantly, I need to keep liftin’.