dericmurphy’s BodyBlog

Who came up with V-day anyway, I freak’n hate it.  I’m glad my wife travels or I’d have to do some sappy crap with her.  I’ll still have to do something but it will wait till this weekend. Ok rant over!!

Well lets see, so far this month I’ve lost 6 lbs for a total of 23 since the new year.  Not bad I guess.  I really can’t tell much.  It’s funny on some people if they gain 5 lbs it’s noticable but I lose 23 and can only tell a little.  I guess I have a vision of myself and it differs from what other people see.  Like back in the day when I wasn’t a disgusting fat body and people would say “do you play football” ya know and crap like that, I never got it.  I never considered myself “big”.  Heck even when I was pushing 300 I didn’t think I looked like i weighed that much.  I saw a guy on tv, I think it was an MMA fight or something and he weighed 295 and was a big fat a$$.  I ask my wife if I looked like that, of course she said “not that bad” but still.  Anyway 23 down another 50 or so to go.  I will say it’s coming off alot faster then I could have hoped.  I just hope it keeps coming off. 

Since it has been going so well I figured I’d change my goals around a bit.  We’re suppose to go whitewater rafting in WV the first weekend in May.  I’d like to be in the 240 range by then.  I’ll keep training hard and just maybe I’ll get there. 

Also so far I’ve been able to keep muscle and get stronger while on a restricted diet.  If I can keep that up I’ll be in good shape.

Well I would say I did pretty good in January.  Lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 lbs.  I think some of that was probably water weight seeing as how I had just got back from Vegas for new years and a 4 hour plan ride.  I hear that will make you retain water but I’m not sure.  I’ve really been taking it pretty easy in the gym, just trying to ease back into it without killing myself.  I figure this month I’ll ramp it up a little more.  Do more cardio and core exercises.  Speaking of Cardio, I have been just using the eliptical and not doing too bad so yesterday I decided to do some jogging.  LMAO, I sucked!!!  I ran about 1/2 mile and felt like I was going to die.  How embarrassing!! Oh where has youth gone?  So with that, I have decided to forget about the eliptical and run.  Unless it’s pissing rain, I’ll be on the track 4 days a week! 

 I want to talk about BF% for a moment.  I have a digital caliper thing, I can’t remember the name of it, I think it’s accucheck or something.  Anyway, I’m not really sure how accurate it really is on me.  I read somewhere that If you’re in the mid teens or less in BF than they are pretty accurate.  Well I’m not there yet so who knows.  If I did the math right last month I lost 20 lbs of fat and gained 3 lbs of muscle.  Well that sounds a little hard to believe really.  I mean I have dieted and all that good stuff but I think that’s a bit extreme.  I guess we’ll see at the first of march, if I can duplicate the loss I’ll be freaking stoked!!  Right now I’m going for 265 come march 1st.  If anyone has used these tell me what you think. 

 Oh yesterday I found out there is a pro wrestler that works out at the same gym as me.  Cool guy, I just find it funny that he works out at the small gym I do. And yeah he’s pretty big!!!