D.Alan’s BodyBlog

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’.