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Last few months have not been kind. They usually aren't. I fucking hate summer. The past few years, the trend has been to lose 10-15 pounds in the fall, hold steady through winter and spring, and then gain it all back and then some over summer as I retreat to A/C and am in no mood to work out after work. Not only that, but even with the A/C on, my insomnia gets much worse in the summer, I'm awake even later, the hunger comes....
Anyway. I broke the trend a bit. I was holding steady in the upper 220s through the summer until I went on a road trip in July and lived off restaurant food for nearly a week. I came back weighing around 233. And since I put that on fast, it was about 4-5 pounds of fat I threw on, pushing my fat % up a percent or two. Since then, I'm up another pound or two.
However, if I kept on my previous trend, I'd be back up to nearly 250, so it's not all bad news.
Here's my weekly average for Sept 19th - Sept 25th
Weight: 234.4
Fat %: 35.61%
Muscle %: 30.33%
Rest. Metabolism: 2097.3
Vis. Fat: 15.0
Still, my numbers from Sept. 26th, 2010 were 246.2 pounds, 1.5% higher on fat, 1% lower on muscle and 1.4 higher on Vis. Fat, so I'm still ahead of where I was a year ago. I would have liked to have been much further along, obviously, but there's nothing I can do about that now. I'm just happy I didn't fall into my usual rut and gain 20 pounds.
I ordered a few knee braces to see if that helps with running. Running shoes solved my foot pain awhile back, hopefully the knee braces help with my knees. I lost the most weight on a weekly basis while I was running, even the first week or two of C25K (while doing some weight lifting in between days) did more for me than any other workout.
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