2007
Well, it is now 2008 and another year has gone by, so I thought I would take a look at the differences from January 2007 to today and see if I have been working hard enough or what. I am writing this as I am looking through all the info I have, so here goes…
In January of 2007 I weighed in at 195 pounds and I am not sure on the bodyfat % because I was not even taking those at that point. Now I weigh 182.5 and I am at 17.63% bodyfat. From that it appears that I have only lost 12.5 pounds over a year, however with further research into my records I find this:
On July 7th I began recording bodyfat % numbers along with my weight and I had lost down to 176.6 pounds and was at 20.09% bodyfat. That is 18.4 pounds lost at that point. That comes to 141 of lean mass and about 35 pounds of fat on me at that point.
September 15th I had lost to my lowest weightof 169.7 pounds and I was at 14.73% bodyfat. This translates to 144.7 pounds of lean mass and 25 pounds of fat. I had lost 10 pounds of fat in 2 months and gained 3.7 pounds of lean mass! Sweet!
From there I went to bulking because I realized I was going to be extremely light if I got downt to 10% bodyfat with only 144 pounds of lean mass.
Now I am up to 182.5 pounds and 17.63% bodyfat which translates to 150.33 pounds of lean mass and I am still carrying around 32.17 pounds of fat. So I have gained 7 pounds of fat in this last bulking attempt. I have also gained another 6 pounds of lean mass with that. I was expecting to gain some fat on the bulk, but I had hoped it would be about half the amount of the mass gains.
I would venture a guess at my begining bodyfat to be around 30 % or so based on everything I can calculate. That would put me at about 136 pounds of lean mass and that is pretty conservative because I was lifting consistently between January and July. This would mean I was carrying 58.5 pounds of fat or more last January. So, over the last year I appear to have lost approx. 26.3 pounds of fat conservatively, and gained right at 14 pounds of lean mass. That averages to just over 1/4 pound of lean mass gained per week over the year, and right at 1/2 a pound a week of fat loss.
This means I had a 44.9% loss in bodyfat and 9.3% gain in mass, so if I did exactly the same this year I would be at 17.72 pounds of bodyfat and 164 pounds of lean mass which would put me at 181.72 pounds and 9.75% bodyfat. That would be awesome! That is a 14.45 pounds of fat loss with a gain of 13.6 pounds of lean mass.
I am starting out with a goal in the begining of this year of consentrating on loosing my bodyfat down to at least 10% with minimal muscle loss if any before attempting to add any lean mass. I need to see how things look without the covering of fat before I go any further with "bulking". To my knowlege I have never been down to 10% bodyfat unless you look at my childhood, so this is a goal I have yet to reach and it will be a nice mildstone to accomplish!
17 pounds of fat loss while maintaining my current lean mass will put me at 10% BF. In one month I could loose 8 pounds at 2 pounds a week and that would place me at about 13% BF at 174 pounds, then in one more month I could be down to 167 or so at 10% BF. YAY!!! SO I should set a 13% bodyfat goal for February 2, 2008.
WE will have to see how things go.
