bfentress’s BodyBlog

I moved in October to buy out a family business from my grandparents.  The business is going great, but I no longer have a gym that is close to my house.  After 6 months of not having a gym, I’m still around the same as I was before I moved.  I feel like I have lost a lot though.  My workouts and eating have been very bad. 

Tomorrow is the day I get back with it again.  My belt size is till the same, and I want it to go down 2 more sizes before summer. 

My goals are:

Eat right again.

Cardio 5 days a week

Weights at home 3 days a week.

At work we eat out 2 meals a day, and I have to focus on eating right.  It is very easy to get the hamburger.  The closest gym is 45 min away, so I’m going to try and some more equipment for a home gym.  I have only dumbbells at the moment, which is enough just depressing after having Gold’s Gym membership.

I took a week completely off, I went off my meals, I didn’t eat good, no weights and only did a little cardio.  I get on the scale after this week and I have lost more weight.  I have felt like I put on a ton of weight and I get on the scale and I have lost weight.  I took the week due to thinking I was over doing it.  Maybe I was, I don’t know anyone have any thoughts?

I was wondering how long it takes most people to transform from out of shape to looking good.  I am 3 months in and I can tell a difference but it is not a total transformation, and I don’t look good yet. Looks like it would take about a year to make ones body look completely different. 

Every where you looks says lose 10 pounds in 10days…. 

Any one have a good idea of how long it takes most people?   

Today will be my 1^st day back after one week off period.  I hope to make some gains.  I need to lose more fat.  I have picked up my eating due to the machine at the college showing I lot muscle and not fat.  I feel like I have gained a ton over the last week.  I did weight on Monday I will next Monday. 

My back feels 100% again.  It was very sore for 4 days. I hope this break allowed it the time to be ready to work again.

Just got my Accu-Measure in the mail.  Now I will have a way to check my body fat every week and I can see my progress. 

I have not been happy with the machine at work saying my body fat has been going up and my weight down.  I don’t see how that is really that possible the pounds of fat I have could go up while doing cardio and weight lifting, not to mention eating a strict diet.  Now I could see my body fat going down and my lean mass going down together but not the lean mass going down and the body fat growing. 

In truth over the last 2 months is shows I have gone down 4 pounds in weight and up 5 in body fat.  I will check it every Monday and see what this way tells me.  I have read that the machines can be off and even more so the better in shape you get.  I believe the one I have been using to be an older one because it does not connect to both the feet and arm, only the feet.  But, my goal is not to lose all the lean mass I have while losing my body fat.  I want to keep my lean mass and shed the extra fat. 

For now I will continue on my once month with the machine and also use the Accu-Measure once a week, I think it will give me a better idea if I am going where I want to be.  I can also use it to determine if the machine is working correctly.

I have been using a machine here at the local college to check my body fat.  It uses some type of electronic thing to test the body fat.  Sadly I have lost some weight but, it has been showing I am going up in body fat while my weight is going down.  I have ordered a caliper to do my own testing.  I also have a very sore muscle in my back.  With all the tons of reading I have been doing I am thinking I have over done myself and I need to give it a rest.  Also I think my body has been in a starvation mode.  So for rest of the week I am going off my diet and weights.  I will still do my cardio at home but I am going to let the rest of my body rest this week and see if it doesn’t give it a jump start for Monday.  I have also changed scales, so I shows I have gained weight when I have not gained any.