EverYoung’s BodyBlog

The good news for my body goals and stats is losing 20 pounds, mostly fat. The bad news is too much of it was muscle. The main reason for a global downward trend in all my body stats (including strength) this year was an appendicitis and appendectomy I had in January. Due to eating almost nothing for four days and then slowly recuperating, over one week I lost about 15 lbs, about 5 of which was muscle. Then the recovery period from the surgery was eight weeks, and weightlifting was a no no.

During that time off I was able to ‘power-down’ my appetite and knock off another 5 lbs. I realized how much I was overeating in following the hunger that heavy lifting causes. Before I started lifting last year my body fat was below 5%. Afterwards it was around 15%. Yeah I put on 25 lbs of pure muscle, but 20 lbs of fat too. Yuck! And I looked better after losing 20 lbs this spring even though at least 5 lbs was muscle. That really drove home the point that I need to declare eternal war on fat. Even more muscle isn’t worth more fat!

After recovery from the surgery I found that my strength was almost half of what it was before. And then, as is my tendency, I pushed myself too hard. In only a few weeks my shoulders were very painful and popping like crazy. MRI showed it was just tendonitis. But I had to lay off yet again. After more than two months my shoulders returned to normal and over the last few weeks I’ve been getting back into lifting, slowly. I’m shifting my goals from gaining lots of muscle to maintaining muscle and let them build slowly. If I push myself too hard, I’ll never reach my ideal body image. So I believe that for me, I need to power-down my desire for muscular development in order to achieve long-term and sustainable muscular development.

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