| | 3 Oct. | 1 Nov. | 1 Dec. | |
| Morning Weight: | 63.0 kg | 61.4 kg | 60.6 kg | |
| Evening Weight: | 63.9 kg | 63.2 kg | 61.3 kg | |
| Morning Body Fat: | 30.7% | 29.6% | 28.2% | |
| Evening Body Fat: | 28.8% | 28.1% | 26.1% | |
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| Measurements: | | | | |
| Bust: | 33” | 33” | 32” | |
| Waist: | 28” | 27” | 27” | |
| Hips: | 40” | 39.5” | 39” | |
| Thigh: | 23.5” | 23” | 22.5” | |
I was hoping to lose a good 2 kg and 2% body fat this past month, but like October it looks like I will have to be patient. My goal was to lose 10lbs by Christmas (4.5kg), and to drop my body fat by about 5%. Well since I weighed in on 3 October I have lost 2.5 kg and about 2.5% body fat. I seem to be progressing at half the speed I thought I would! Especially since we are fast heading into the Christmas season and I know better than to try to lose weight in December. No, my new goal is to hit 59kg and less than 25% body fat by the first of February and to enjoy Christmas in the meantime.
Having said that, I did go for an official body composition test at my gym yesterday morning, and it looks like I might be much closer to my body fat goal. I normally use a bathroom scale that measures body fat by running a very weak electric current through the body. These are notoriously inaccurate since they are dependent on hydration levels and the current tends to just run up one leg and down the other, so if you carry your weight on the hips like me, they give a much higher reading. However, the gym uses a much more accurate machine, where sensors are attached to one hand and one foot, while you lay on your back so the current runs through your whole body. Using this method, I had a body fat reading of just 24.4%! I’d still like to get it down a bit more since a lean runner is a faster runner, but I’m clearly much farther ahead than I thought I was.
Speaking of body fat, why can we never lose it from the places we want to? I don’t mind having a small bust but I really didn’t need to lose a whole inch off it, while my hips and thighs only lost half an inch. Still, it was enough for many of my clothes to start fitting again, though there are still a couple of pairs of trousers too tight to be comfortable. Overall though, I am happy with my progress.
The Score:
| Calories: | Protein: | Carbs: | Fat: | Alcohol: | Fibre: |
| 1851.45 | 93.29g | 247.87g | 54.72g | 0 | 25.87g |
| 20% | 54% | 26% | | ||
| Calories burned through exercise: | 468 | | |||
What I ate:
| Time | Item | Amount |
| 07:30 | Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 each |
| Cold water | 200mL | |
| Whole Scrambled egg with 2 egg whites | 3 eggs | |
| Bob's Red Mill Pure Oats | 40g | |
| with Sultanas | 20g | |
| Sainsbury's orange, mango and passionfruit juice | 200mL | |
| 08:30 | Black Tea | 500mL |
| 10:00 | Easy Run - 33 minutes | |
| TriBerry Nuun electrolyte tablet in water | 750mL | |
| 11:15 | Sponser Chocolate Recovery Shake | 30g |
| in Skim milk | 225mL | |
| 12:00 | Raspberry and Echinacea tea | 250mL |
| 13:15 | Sainsbury's light sweet & sour cooking sauce with chicken and extra vegetables | 300g |
| Brown rice | 50g (dry) | |
| Dole pineapple slices in juice | 70g | |
| 16:45 | Brazil nuts | 6g |
| Cashews | 17g | |
| Red Apple | about 100g | |
| 20:00 | Lee's Hippy Farm Beans (from Leon's recipe book) | 315g |
| Alpro Soya Original | 200mL | |
| 20:45 | Mrs Crimble's Gluten Free Double chocolate brownies | 1 brownie |
| 21:00 | Ellactiva Chocolate Calcium Chew | 1 chew |
| 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 pill |
Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.
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