Rebirth and Renewal
I’m just about to start a 12-week transformation. I’ve actually completed a pretty good transformation in the past, but it was really more about losing lbs. than it was about changing my bodyfat/muscle ratio. I had dropped some 40 lbs. last year, but a lot of it was muscle - I still looked like a smaller fat person. Since then, I have gained back 26 of the lbs. I became very sick and required surgery. It took a long time to get a clearance to go back to the gym, but I was so weak that I got discouraged and really became quite lazy. Now, I have never been so committed. I am about to start a new school year AND a new lifestyle - one that incorporates all aspects of a healthy lifestyle so that I can have THE healthy life. I will be watching the bodyfat percentage more than I will be watching the scale; that will allow me, in my mind, to lift hard, eat the calories that I need, and to drink the water that I need. Before, I would starve myself before a weigh day which, as we all know, would lead me to binge the following meal. I know, I know; that’s so unhealthy.
